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...means he did not intend to kill, and conspiracy, which means he did. The jury deadlocked at sentencing, so it was Judge Matsch who sentenced Nichols to life without parole. Nichols' lawyers say evidence pointing to the involvement of others could exonerate him. But last year a federal appeals panel denied a similar motion for a new trial, ruling that the outcome of the case would not have changed...
With its eye on cost, the Food and Drug Administration last week took testimony on whether to require makers of the blockbuster allergy drugs Claritin, Allegra and Zyrtec to sell the products over the counter, a move that would slash their prices. An FDA advisory panel ruled that the drugs were safe enough to be sold without prescription. While the FDA is not required to follow the panel's advice, it has usually done so. A switch to over-the-counter sales would benefit uninsured buyers--as well as insurers, such as the California managed-care giant WellPoint Health Networks...
What happened? Last week, just before the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a panel made up of some of the leading researchers in the field gathered in San Francisco to address that question. The fault, they concluded, is not in the new anticancer compounds--in which the researchers still have great faith--but in the way they are being evaluated. "We've gone past the first hurdle, where we wondered whether they would ever work in anything other than a mouse," says Dr. Lawrence Einhorn, president of ASCO. "The challenge now is how do you study...
...Step 1, the scientific panel concluded, was to change current trial design to give the new drugs more time to work. As a second step, the panel also wants to change the criteria by which a drug's success is measured. The group proposed that with the newer, better-targeted medications, success should be determined not by whether a tumor shrinks in size but by whether it can be confined, or by how long a patient can put off chemotherapy...
...strictest rules affect the youngest infants. "There is no reason for babies under six months of age to drink juice," says Dr. Susan Baker, a professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Buffalo, N.Y., who chaired the panel that issued the new recommendations. "They run the risk of being too full to get adequate breast milk or formula." Children who are one to six years old can drink as much as 6 oz. of juice a day. Those ages 7 to 18 should consume no more than...