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During the past two years, Wolfe has taken his cases directly to the top. In April 1977, he alerted HEW Secretary Joseph Califano to existing FDA records linking phenformin, a drug used by one-fifth of all diabetics taking oral medication, to bad reactions in 190 cases and 93 deaths. Califano responded by invoking the "imminent hazard" law, which had never before been used, and banned the substance. Only last month, following another letter from Wolfe, Califano issued a sweeping warning about the dangers of DES, a drug once given to pregnant women to help prevent miscarriages that has since...
Although the entire Faculty is close to its goals, Crooks listed six departments which, according to the method of calculation used by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), should have at least two more tenured women...
Crooks said last night HEW expects Harvard to hire women and minorities according to their percentages in the applicant pool for the different teaching levels in that field. The Faculty often does not agree with HEW or with each other on how to determine the applicant pool, Crooks said...
Pattullo said the committee until last year had acted on the principle that only those experiments receiving HEW funds needed to be reviewed by the committee...
There was some question, Pattullo said, as to whether the federal regulations required the committee to review all human-subject experiments or only those receiving funds from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) and other federal sources...