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...anomaly. He seems to make decisions not for political expediency but because he sincerely believes he is doing right. In the process, he has amassed a list of powerful foes that would make lesser men pack up and leave town. He has enraged the tobacco industry, the vitamin industry and the medical-device industry. A self-described Republican, he has alienated most of Congress's Republican majority, including Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, his former boss and mentor. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has called him a "bully" and a "thug" and accused him of using "Stalinist" tactics...
...impressed. They say that by focusing on the 17% of new drugs that are targeted for deadly diseases, the FDA has stalled the other 83%. "They're terrified of Nader and the left wing," says Senator Hatch, who parted ways with Kessler after a fight over regulating the vitamin industry, which is well established in Utah. "They want zero risk, and there's no way for there to be zero risk in anything." Representative Bliley, a tobacco-industry ally, goes further. The FDA's true mission, he has said, should be "to bring safe drugs and devices to the American...
...Meir J. Stampfer, the co-investigator and lead author of a vitamin E study on women, says that some of the recent regulations Congress has imposed...
Rimm was a scientific collaborator on two studies of vitamin E consumption and coronary disease published in 1993--one on men, one on women--which were performed at the Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School, of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital...
Stampfer, the lead author of the vitamin E study on women, says it sometimes makes sense to oversample specific groups because they are predominantly affected by the disease in question. "[Allocations of funding] should be driven by science, not by politics," he says...