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Anxious seekers of over-the-counter emergency contraception must continue to find an alternate plan. But it certainly won’t be Plan B, the emergency contraceptive, or “morning-after pill,” that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deemed unfit for over-the-counter distribution last May. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan investigative subsidiary group of Congress, reported recently that top FDA officials decided to reject the application of Plan B months before the government scientific review of the application was complete. The FDA is supposed to be a nonpartisan agency...
...first at 1.5 kilo-ohms. Trojan clocked in at 1.25 kilo-ohms. We’re not really sure what this means. Next, we tested the structural integrity of the condoms with a water leak test. The results were shocking and mildly disturbing. After the prophylactics passed the FDA-standard 10-ounce test, we crammed them with 400 ounces of water—literally 40 times the usual amount—and each passed with flying colors. Zero breakage. Because nothing weighs on you more than a broken condom, FM stole some free weights to test durability. By wrapping...
...harden their warnings about the potential side effects of SSRIs. The companies' prescriber information must now feature a black-box warning - the strongest available - stating that in trials "antidepressants increased the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior" in children and adolescents with depression and other psychiatric disorders. The fda is reviewing the results of several trials to determine whether a similar warning should be introduced for adults. British health authorities have gone further: in September, the National Health Service told doctors to stop prescribing antidepressants to under-18s in the early stages of treatment because of the link with suicidal...
...1990s, when patients had to wait as long as two weeks to learn whether they were HIV-positive and were given the news--which could be a death sentence--by a doctor, a nurse or a trained counselor. Now AIDS can be effectively treated with antiretroviral drugs, and FDA approval seems imminent for the first over-the-counter HIV test for use in the home: the OraQuick Advance. With a swab of saliva taken from the gums, the kit (currently sold to doctors and clinics for about $15) delivers a result--positive or negative--in 20 minutes. The FDA approved...
...response to reports of increased salt consumption nationwide, three Harvard professors joined a group of health organizations to petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), asking the government agency to focus on lowering salt consumption. Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Dr. Carlos A. Camargo, Assistant Professor of Medicine Dr. Frank B. Hu, and Professor of Medicine at HSPH, Frank M. Sacks all signed a cover letter of support which accompanied the petition. In the petition filed on Monday, the Center for Science in the Public Interest—the organization...