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Since it came onto the market nearly six years ago, the acne drug Accutane has carried stark warnings that it causes birth defects: pregnant women must not take it, and other women must use birth control while on it. The warnings, it seems, have not been enough. Some researchers at the Food and Drug Administration fear that the widely used drug could have caused between 900 and 1,300 babies to be born with severe birth defects, including brain damage. The FDA's concerns became public last week after the New York Times obtained a confidential agency report that raised...
...want to make are already produced in abundant quantities elsewhere. Meanwhile, their Western partners, who are mainly eager to sell products and services in the Soviet Union, must cope with the nonconvertibility of Soviet currency. No matter how profitable a Soviet joint venture may be, U.S. companies have little use for rubles...
...most important thing is that this procedure is preventable," says George Annas of the Boston University School of Medicine. Multiple fetuses often result from in vitro fertilization, in which numerous embryos are transferred into the uterus in the hope that one will "take." As a result, some clinics now use fewer embryos. Multiple conceptions have also occurred in women taking fertility drugs; many could be avoided, say obstetricians, if dosages were prescribed more carefully. Such measures would probably lengthen the time that it takes couples to conceive, but that seems a small price to pay for avoiding what must...
...cancer, but she has a good death: "Gradually, the room is filled with light . . . and she is filled with elation." That puts her ahead of the dying Goethe, who, in his last words, had to ask for more light. Up in heaven, one can be sure, Claudia will use it against...
...painstakingly refine its military designs into a line of passenger-jet engines. Its CF6, currently a popular engine for jumbo jets, was derived from a design initially developed in the late 1960s for the Air Force's giant C-5A cargo plane. The engine was the first to use a high- bypass technique in which a fan, working like a turbocharger in an automobile, pushes large quantities of air past the combustion core to produce much greater thrust. The CF6 turbofan (current cost: $6 million each) has broken the hold Pratt & Whitney had with its JT9D on the giant Boeing...