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Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com wrote:
> fresh~horses wrote:
> > Last month:
> > The head of the Agency of Women's Health at the FDA, Dr. Susan Wood,
> > resigned over the FDA's refusal to make the morning after pill OTC.
> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083101271.html
> >
> >
> >
> > Last week:
> > The FDA appointed a male veterinarian as acting director to fill Dr.
> > Susan Wood's position. Then, after flack from women's groups, they
> > unappointed him and denied they'd ever appointed him but... .
> > www.tompaine.com/print/fda_shenanigans.php">http://www.tompaine.com/print/fda_shenanigans.php
> > (follow links within)
> >
> >
> >
> > Today:
> > The brand new still-wet-behind-the-ears head of the FDA abruptly
> > resigned.
> > nytimes.com/2005/09/24/politics/24fda.html?hp&ex=1127534400&en=0072cec972013931&ei=5094&partner=homepage">http://nytimes.com/2005/09/24/politics/24fda.html?hp&ex=1127534400&en=0072cec972013931&ei=5094&partner=homepage
> >
> >
> >
> > It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
>
>
> COMMENT:
>
> It was the dumbest of times. The FDA's OTC regulatory and application
> policies resulted in a situation where, for nearly two decades, the
> only safe non-drowsiness producing antihistamine was only by
> prescription, not OTC. While meanwhile we struggled along with OTC
> antihistamines that put people to sleep at the wheel, and other
> prescription antihistamines that were still sedating or (even worse)
> lethal causes of heart arrhythymias. This situation was so bad it
> finally got to the point that one HMO company (Wellpoint) actually
> petitioned the FDA to make ANOTHER company's drug available OTC.
>
> Don't get your knickers in a twist thinking the recent FDA
> foot-dragging might be some kind anti-female agenda. You're not being
> singled out. The FDA has an effective anti-human agenda-- it's just
> that this time women happen to be the segment of humans bearing the
> regulatory problems. Never explain with complex politics and trickery
> and bigotry what can more adequately be explained by simply
> beaurocratic intertia, sloth, and simple stupidity. There's plenty of
> the last to go around at the FDA.
>
> SBH
Yep.
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