Consumer group attacks Olestra in FDA request
A Washington consumer group urges FDA to reject Procter & Gamble's bid to market Olestra, citing rat studies showing cancer, liver damage, and deaths. P&G rejects the findings, noting extensive testing and safety, while analysts forecast potential $1.7 billion annual sales.
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Cincinnati
Food and Drug Administration
Procter & Gamble
Olestra
Center For Science
P&g
FDA
Wal Street
Melvin D. Reuber
Don Tassone
Center For Science In
Mr. Tassone
Alcoholism Debate Reaches Supreme Court Over Disease Status
The Supreme Court will hear whether alcoholism is a disease or a result of willful misconduct. A ruling could shift views and influence health insurance coverage for treatment. Veterans Eugene Traynor and James McKelvey allege the VA denial violates the Rehabilitation Act, as alcoholism is now recognized to some extent by law.
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Supreme Court
High Court
Harold Swift
Hazelden Foundation
Minneapolis
New York
Washington
Veterans Administration
Eugene Traynor
James McKelvey
Traynor
Mr. McKelvey
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
McKelvey
Second Circuit Appeals Court
Mark Willenbring
Minneapolis VA Medical Center
Health IMF back pain rise prompts new relief advice
A health feature outlines that lower back pain affects up to half of adults, driven by desk jobs and poor posture. It notes most recover in days, but some develop chronic pain with significant economic costs, and urges medical evaluation, exercise, posture correction, and physical therapy as core treatments.
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United States
Garvis Nicholson
University of Alabama
Cecil Nepomunceno
Developing Nations
Nepomunceno
Nicholson
Heart transplants reach 20 year milestone in medicine
Doctors mark two decades of heart transplants noting improved survival. About 80 percent gain at least one extra year, and two thirds reach five years. Since 1967, outcomes have vastly improved with Stanford leading in long term experience and thousands of global cases recorded by the International Heart Transplantation Society.
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Chicago
Christiaan N. Barnard
Cape Town
South Africa
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford
Calif
John Speer Schroeder
Sharon Hunt
International Heart Transplantation Society
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