Word: unproven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Compound-Q affair has heightened concern about the widespread use of unproven drugs. "There is always a tension between treatment of a patient and the need for solid drug testing," says Dr. Frank Young, the FDA commissioner. But AIDS has increased that tension. Those with the disease have protested for years that the FDA's traditional methods of testing an experimental drug's safety and effectiveness were too slow. "People have lost faith in the system," says Richard Dunne, executive director of Manhattan's Gay Men's Health Crisis...
Agreeable to all parties, of course, is the rub. It will always be politically safer to fund an exhibit of old masters than an exhibit of unproven work. Two weeks ago at a meeting in his office, Yates confronted NEA critic Armey with a Picasso painting of the Crucifixion, which offended many people in the 1930s. Armey admitted that he was not offended by the Picasso, but did not concede anything about Mapplethorpe. Armey warned that if the Mapplethorpe catalog is plunked down on the table during the debate on NEA funding, its budget would be "blown...
There is another unproven theory about the increase: that the disease, which is spreading among Hispanics, is being carried by immigrants from countries where vaccination requirements...
...Food and Drug Administration announced last October that it would allow promising but unproven treatments for AIDS to move onto the market more swiftly than other new drugs. Last week the agency made good on that promise. It said it would approve an aerosol drug, pentamidine, for treatment of a deadly form of pneumonia that is a leading killer of AIDS patients...
...Moreover, the surveys may not be relevant to current pills. The reports contain data on women who took older formulations of oral contraceptives; today's tablets contain lower levels of sex hormones and are considered much safer. Most doctors remain convinced that the Pill's documented benefits far outweigh unproven risks. Women will have to decide for themselves whether they agree...