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...HEART DRUG JUST FOR BLACKS The FDA may decide this week to approve BiDil, a heart-failure drug aimed at African Americans. A one-year study of 1,050 black heart patients found that those taking the pill, which pairs two generic cardiac drugs, had a 43% lower death rate than patients who didn't take the drug. If approved, BiDil would be the first race-specific drug...
Nobody knows for certain whether any of that meat has made its way to American dinner tables. In 2001, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked farmers to voluntarily refrain from marketing any meat or milk from cloned animals or their offspring until safety was proved. A 2002 National Academy of Sciences report found "no current evidence" that cloned-animal products were unfit to eat, but it recommended more study. In 2003, the FDA declared such products "likely" safe but did not make a final ruling...
...pressure is building in the farmland for the FDA to lift its informal moratorium. Some 300 beef cows, 150 dairy cows, 200 pigs and several score of sheep and goats have been cloned in the U.S. Since no one is monitoring the situation, meat from their offspring may well have started trickling onto the market. "There's a lot of pent-up volume," says Scott Davis, founder of ViaGen, a biotech company based in Austin, Texas, that charges $15,000 to clone a cow and $4,000 for a pig. "A clone has to be bred...
...FDA reported that 43 men have suffered vision loss after taking the impotence drugs Viagra, Cialis and Levitra. There's no evidence, however, that the drugs actually caused this rare type of blindness, which is linked to the same conditions--such as diabetes and heart disease--that cause impotence...
...founding fellow at New York's Hastings Center; of cancer; in Gualala, Calif. Regularly called as an expert witness on environmental contamination, he gave testimony on silicone breast implants that helped lead to a $3.2 billion settlement by Dow Corning Corp., the implants' manufacturer, in 1992--the year the FDA banned general use of the implants...