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...test new drugs. Under pressure from AIDS activists, the Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it would allow wider use of two experimental drugs before rigorous clinical trials have conclusively established the value of these medications. AIDS patients hailed the decision, but it set precedents that could weaken the scientific safeguards that have long protected the desperately ill from quack remedies...
...House vote was a sharp blow to S & L industry lobbyists, whose lavish courtship of Congressmen fostered in the mid-1980s permissive legislation that is blamed for aggravating the thrift crisis. The industry fought to weaken the capital requirements in the current bill by pushing an amendment, sponsored by Illinois Republican Henry Hyde, that would have allowed S & Ls a regulatory hearing before they could be forced to comply with the new standards. Hyde, the industry's most vociferous advocate, is a leading recipient of S & L PAC contributions. After Bush threatened to veto the bill if capital standards were...
...Montreal confirm that pentamidine inhaled directly into the lungs is dramatically effective in preventing the pneumonia from developing. Federal health officials are so impressed by the drug that they will recommend that those infected with the virus start monthly aerosol treatments as soon as their immune systems begin to weaken...
...there are those, like President Bush, who oppose the bill, arguing that the legislation would weaken the family by providing child care...
...Kildee says, "I totally reject the conservative argument that subsidizing child care would weaken the family. I think child care is very pro-family. The structure of the family has changed in recent years." And as a result, he adds, the government must help support working parents...