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...Clark too raises a concern with FAS; they say that without Faculty approval, it could be difficult for him to become president. For FAS, traditionally the University's center of pure scholarship and academia, a president from the business school--with business sensibilities and motivations--might be a bitter pill to swallow...
They offered her a pill...
...They wanted to give me a pill almost immediately," she says. "The person said, 'You know, these problems are recurring. You should be on some form of medication...
...road to the American marketplace has been long, winding and more than a little bit bumpy. More than a medical breakthrough, the pill is also a flash point for political dissension: The efficacy of the pill is a boon to women's health care advocates, who see RU-486 as a much-needed, less invasive alternative to surgical abortions. Abortion opponents, of course, view the pill's potency with alarm, and have urged the FDA to withhold approval of the drug...
...with its political fallout as well. "With a drug like this, it's nearly impossible to separate the political from the scientific," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. But while many of the medical issues surrounding RU-486 may be rooted in a political distaste for the pill's purpose, Smith says there are still some genuine medical concerns that the FDA is correct in addressing. "There are legitimate medical questions here that we will have to watch carefully as the drug is used," he says. "How will doctors ensure the safety of an unsupervised patient with a history...