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...meantime, the FDA has proposed a massive overhaul of the guidance it gives on drug use by pregnant women. Prompted by a spate of birth defects caused by thalidomide, the notorious morning-sickness drug, the agency since 1979 has classified drugs in one of five pregnancy-related categories, with A being the safest and X being the least necessary (like Accutane, an acne treatment associated with birth defects). Category B has pretty positive safety data, and D encompasses chemotherapy and other drugs whose benefits may outweigh the risks to the fetus. And then there's Category C, which covers...
...professors on the committee vested with implementing the College’s first curricular overhaul in 30 years, science professor John Huth does not take his obligations lightly. One morning this spring, he had to drop his daughter off at school, take his car to the mechanic, bike to his office, and change into a dress shirt there, all by 8:30 a.m.—to make it to a General Education committee meeting, where he would help hammer out course proposals for an hour and a half. It’s behind-the-scenes labors like these that...
...hire the manpower necessary to scrutinize each trade.“The trouble with common sense,” Brown says, “is that it’s expensive.” MOVING FORWARDDespite the much-changed financial landscape, many academics said there was no need to overhaul economic thinking.“I don’t think there’s any new particles being discovered,” Merton says, comparing the fundamentals of finance—market efficiency and risk-benefit analysis—to the building blocks of physical matter.While several major financial...
...playing football. While the NFL pays out about $1 billion in pensions and other benefits each year, it sets aside just $20 million annually to care for disabled retired players. Players' advocates say that allotment is too small to cover the injuries retired athletes suffer, and call for an overhaul of the notoriously cumbersome system that they must navigate to qualify for such benefits...
...insurance giant, which has received $182.5 billion in government funding since September, has been under pressure to overhaul its board, according to media reports...