Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week. At least 35 people have died from liver damage after taking Rezulin, a medication the agency approved two years ago. In an unusual meeting last week, a panel of independent experts wrestled with the question of whether the agency should reverse itself and pull the drug from the market...
...insulin. And it appears to be effective in hundreds of thousands of patients whose disease isn't controlled by existing treatments. The question, as always, is whether the potential outweighs the risks. The FDA did require Warner-Lambert to keep looking for side effects once Rezulin went on the market, and the company has tightened its instructions to physicians on patient monitoring three separate times since then...
...that clearly wasn't enough. Though the panel decided to keep Rezulin on the market, its thumbs-up came with a warning to the FDA to limit the drug's use to patients who are failing other treatments. And the ruling made it clear, implicitly at least, that without adequate follow-up, the agency's streamlined approval process could be a fast track to disaster...
BONE CANDY Worried about osteoporosis, but can't stand the chalky taste of most calcium pills? Three new chewables on the market this month are designed, with the added help of a little chocolate, to taste more like Tootsie Rolls than limestone. All three products--Viactiv, Calburst and Calcium Soft Chew--contain 500 mg of calcium, or half the daily requirement for most adults...
...super-buff Trinity, leading Neo to his destiny. Given a budget that encourages their kinesthetic skills, the filmmakers tend to go on a bit, but it's mostly a kind of quick, glancing hipness that's being indulged here. And that's a rare and welcome commodity in mass-market moviemaking these days...