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Dirty Dancing: The Fda Stumbles On The Chevron Two-Step, Gary S. Lawson
Dirty Dancing: The Fda Stumbles On The Chevron Two-Step, Gary S. Lawson
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Professor Lars Noah deserves much credit for exposing some of the myriad ways in which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has consistently sought to expand its authority through questionable, and perhaps in some cases abusive, legal practices.' As Professor Noah observes, there are signs that the federal courts' century-long honeymoon with the FDA may be ending 2 -and perhaps the FDA never deserved the solicitude that it has traditionally received from both the judiciary and Congress. 3 If Professor Noah can hasten the onset of a more realistic legal and public attitude toward the FDA, he will have performed …
Thalidomide And The Titanic: Reconstructing The Technology Tragedies Of The Twentieth Century, George J. Annas
Thalidomide And The Titanic: Reconstructing The Technology Tragedies Of The Twentieth Century, George J. Annas
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The Titanic has become a metaphor for the disastrous consequences of an unqualified belief in the safety and invincibility of new technology. Similarly, the thalidomide tragedy stands for all of the "monsters" that can be inadvertently or negligently created by modern medicine. Thalidomide, once banned, has returned to the center of controversy with the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) announcement that thalidomide will be placed on the market for the treatment of erythema nodosum leprosum, a severe dermatological complication of Hansen's disease. Although this indication is very restricted, thalidomide will be available for off-label uses once it is on the …