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...Cross is limited in its ability to collect blood by regulations spelled out by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which prevents individuals from donating if it deems them to be at risk for carrying number of diseases, including hepatitis C, HIV and the human form of mad cow disease. Screening for these diseases is a two-step process: first, the battery of questions that all donors face, such as those about sex with other men, and second, extensive testing of the donated blood. In 2000, a committee of FDA advisers narrowly voted to continue the restriction that...
After politics trumped science last May, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is once again considering Plan B, otherwise known as “the morning after pill,” for over-the-counter sale. The agency rejected the first such application last year, claiming there was not enough research on the dangers of the drug to young teenagers. Yet the FDA’s own expert panel agreed that the emergency contraception should be made available over-the-counter?...
Harvard students are fortunate to have emergency contraception easily available in a non-judgmental environment at University Health Services. But across the country all women are not so lucky. The science says that emergency contraception is safe for over-the-counter sale; the FDA should stick to the facts...
...home, researchers found that they were no more likely to have unprotected sex than those without unrestricted access to the drug. Other studies have shown that access to the drug did not increase teenagers’ likelihood to engage in promiscuous sex. But, regardless, the role of the FDA is to approve drugs for over-the-counter sale based solely on the medical evidence of their safety and effectiveness; to make medical—not moral—decisions. Again refusing to approve a medically safe Plan B for over-the-counter sale would seriously damage the credibility...
Until 2002, the FDA had not approved a study involving the therapeutic impact of psychedelic drugs since the 1970s. The Harvard study is the fourth such study to be approved in the past two years—the other studies examine the drug’s potential salutary effects for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder...