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...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week tightened restrictions on the prescription acne medication Accutane (isotretinoin) and its generic equivalents. The drug has long been known to cause birth defects, and in 2002, Accutane's manufacturer, Roche, had put a program in place to further limit fetal exposure. But now the FDA says that program, along with several similar efforts to restrict use of the generic equivalents, created confusion and failed to protect pregnant women and their embryos. Under the new measures, manufacturers will register doctors who prescribe the drug, pharmacies that dispense it and patients who take it. Patients...
...even a lifelong Republican in a Republican state can do only so much. At first Combs couldn't get the Texas legislature to limit vending-machine sales, but in 2003, working behind the scenes with Governor Rick Perry, she got the federally funded breakfast and lunch programs transferred from the Texas education agency to the agriculture department, giving her oversight of the outside vendors. Last March she announced the new policy on junk food, to be implemented when school began in August. Combs has made adjustments over the months since, backing down on a ban on sweets at birthday parties...
...parent bake sales as well as the corporate vending machines, Combs has avoided a plate-throwing confrontation with big contractors who bristled at the suggestion that their products were making kids fat. Some suppliers of prepared school lunches have even embraced new rules that set a weekly limit on the amount of fat and sugar in the meals. Food-service provider Aramark, for instance, offers popular dishes like penne Alfredo made with less fat. Pizza Hut has reconfigured its school pizza to meet the new fat requirements. Frito-Lay brought in baked chips rather than fried ones and cut portion...
...they adopted a needy family for the holidays and spent a day buying presents for them. Hawton would love to extend the practice to her side of the family, but so far her efforts have failed, and so have other attempts at moderation. One year, her family agreed to limit gift purchases to $15, but everyone panicked, and some overstepped the limit. Another year, they all brought generic gifts and played a dice game to determine who got what--a disaster. This year, for the first time, there will be no gifts among the adults, with one exception. Just...
...year deal signed December 3, MIT pledged to limit the conversion of its commercial property to tax-exempt use, a move that city leaders praised for easing concerns that Cambridge would lose millions in revenue if more university land were taken off the tax rolls...