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...drug in Third World countries. Despite its popularity overseas, however, Depo-Provera is not approved as a contraceptive in the U.S. Reason: the Food and Drug Administration fears that not enough is known about the drug's long-term side effects. Last week, at the behest of the Upjohn Co., which developed and markets the drug, a special FDA-appointed panel conducted a five-day hearing to see if Depo-Provera should finally be made available to American women...
...Pill: increased risk of abnormal blood clots and heart attacks. Depo-Provera can have less serious side effects that persist as long as it is in the bloodstream. Among them: weight gain, loss of sex drive, menstrual irregularities and, frequently, complete cessation of menstrual bleeding. According to Upjohn Research Manager Gordon Duncan, none of these problems are serious enough "to preclude its use as a contraceptive...
...topic of industry university relations Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania the gathering was also organized by officials from Cornell. Princeton, Yale, Johns Hopkins, and Washington Universities, and the Universities of Michigan and Texas. Also involved were government representatives, and top executives from the corporate boardrooms of IBM. Upjohn, Smithkline Beckmen Centus Dupont, General Electric and Monsanto...
...outlets for stolen pills flourish in much of Africa and Asia. Even when controls exist, enforcement may fail. Philippines officials told a TIME reporter that clioquinol is no longer available, yet the reporter bought it (Ciba's Mexaform) at a major Manila drugstore. Parke-Davis' chloramphenicol and Upjohn's tetracycline were also available-no prescriptions requested, no warnings offered...
...James Murray of Chicago's Policy Research Corp., "there'll be a $50 billion to $100 billion annual market for agribusiness applications of genetic engineering by 1996-ten times the potential of medical-pharmaceutical applications." Within the past ten years, giant companies like Atlantic Richfield, Pfizer, Shell, Upjohn, Ciba-Geigy and Occidental Petroleum have bought seed companies, the obvious distributors of the products of agrigenetics...