Download or read book The Fda Follies written by Herbert Burkholz and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1995-05-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published just as America is debating health policy, this story of corruption and ineptitude is a timely expose of a vital agency. It contains much damning information about the FDA's long-standing deference to the drug industry and the scandalous mishandling of generic drug regulations.
Download or read book Inside the FDA written by Fran Hawthorne and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forces that shape America's most powerful consumer agency Because of the importance of what it regulates, the FDA comes under tremendous political, industry, and consumer pressure. But the pressure goes far beyond the ordinary lobbying of Washington trade groups. Its mandate-one quarter of the national economy-brings the FDA into the middle of some of the most important and contentious issues of modern society. From "designer" babies and abortion to the price of prescription drugs and the role of government itself, Inside the FDA takes readers on an intriguing journey into the world of today's most powerful consumer agency. In a time when companies continue to accuse the FDA of nitpicking and needlessly delaying needed new drugs, and consumers are convinced that the agency bends to industry pressure by rushing unsafe drugs to market, Inside the FDA digs deep to reveal the truth. Through scores of interviews and real-world stories, Hawthorne also shows how and why the agency makes some of its most controversial decisions as well as how its recent reaction to certain issues-including the revolutionary cancer drug Erbitux, stem cell research, and bioengineering of food-may jeopardize its ability to keep up with future scientific developments. Inside the FDA takes a closer look at the practices, people, and politics of this crucial watchdog in light of the competing pressures and trends of modern society, revealing what the FDA is supposed to do, what it actually does-and fails to do-who it influences, and how it could better fulfill its mandate. The decisions that the FDA makes are literally life and death. Inside the FDA provides a sophisticated account of how this vitally important agency struggles to balance bureaucracy and politics with its overriding mission to promote the country's health.
Download or read book Water Follies written by Robert Jerome Glennon and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Santa Cruz River that once flowed through Tucson, Arizona is today a sad mirage of a river. Except for brief periods following heavy rainfall, it is bone dry. The cottonwood and willow trees that once lined its banks have died, and the profusion of birds and wildlife recorded by early settlers are nowhere to be seen. The river is dead. What happened? Where did the water go. As Robert Glennon explains in Water Follies, what killed the Santa Cruz River -- and could devastate other surface waters across the United States -- was groundwater pumping. From 1940 to 2000, the volume of water drawn annually from underground aquifers in Tucson jumped more than six-fold, from 50,000 to 330,000 acre-feet per year. And Tucson is hardly an exception -- similar increases in groundwater pumping have occurred across the country and around the world. In a striking collection of stories that bring to life the human and natural consequences of our growing national thirst, Robert Glennon provides an occasionally wry and always fascinating account of groundwater pumping and the environmental problems it causes. Robert Glennon sketches the culture of water use in the United States, explaining how and why we are growing increasingly reliant on groundwater. He uses the examples of the Santa Cruz and San Pedro rivers in Arizona to illustrate the science of hydrology and the legal aspects of water use and conflicts. Following that, he offers a dozen stories -- ranging from Down East Maine to San Antonio's River Walk to Atlanta's burgeoning suburbs -- that clearly illustrate the array of problems caused by groundwater pumping. Each episode poses a conflict of values that reveals the complexity of how and why we use water. These poignant and sometimes perverse tales tell of human foibles including greed, stubbornness, and, especially, the unlimited human capacity to ignore reality. As Robert Glennon explores the folly of our actions and the laws governing them, he suggests common-sense legal and policy reforms that could help avert potentially catastrophic future effects. Water Follies, the first book to focus on the impact of groundwater pumping on the environment, brings this widespread but underappreciated problem to the attention of citizens and communities across America.
Download or read book Conservatism Consumer Choice and the Food and Drug Administration during the Reagan Era written by Lucas Richert and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last quarter of the 20th century, politicians in Washington, as well as interest groups, regulatory policy makers, and drug industry leaders were forced to confront the hot-button issue of pharmaceutical regulation. The struggle always centered on product innovation, consumer protection, and choice in the free market. As the American economy stuttered in the late 1970s, the stakes were extremely high for the powerful drug industry and the American public. At the center of this drama was the Food and Drug Administration, which was censured from both the left and right of the political spectrum for being too strict and too lenient in the application of its regulatory powers. Lucas Richert explores the FDA, drugs, and politics in the context of the watershed Reagan era, a period when the rhetoric of limited government, reduced regulation, and enhanced cooperation between businesses and U.S. regulatory agencies was on the ascent. As he investigates the controversies surrounding Laetrile, Reye’s Syndrome, Oraflex, patient package inserts, diet pills, and HIV/AIDS drugs, Richert argues that the practical application of conservative economic principles to the American drug industry was A Prescription for Scandal.
Download or read book Bendectin and Birth Defects written by Michael D. Green and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benedictin was prescribed to more than thirty-five million American women from its introduction in 1956 until 1983, when it was withdrawn from the market. The drug's manufacturer, Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, a major U.S. pharmaceutical firm, joined a list of other companies whose product liabilities would result in precedent-setting litigation. Before it was over, the Benedictin litigation would involve 2,000 claimants over a fifteen-year period. Michael D. Green offers a comprehensive overview of the Benedictin case and highlights many of the key issues in mass toxic substances litigation, comparing individual and collective forms of litigation, and illustrating the misunderstandings between scientists and lawyers about the role of science in providing evidence for the legal system.
Download or read book Cancer and the Search for Selective Biochemical Inhibitors written by E.J. Hoffman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of medicine has become splintered into two factions, that of orthodoxy and its counterpart, alternative or complementary medicine. A problem with alternative medicine is, of course, that of anecdote and hearsay. The solution: the disclosure, in an unassailable fashion, of the underlying biochemical principles for alternative cancer therap
Download or read book From Label to Table written by Xaq Frohlich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How did the Nutrition Facts label come to appear on millions of everyday American household products? As Xaq Frohlich unearths, this legal, scientific, and seemingly innocuous strip of information is in fact a prism through which to view the high-stakes political battles and development of scientific ideas that shaped the realms of American health, nutrition, and public communication. From Label to Table tells the biography of the food label. By tracing policy debates at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Frohlich describes the emergence of our present information age in food and diet markets and how powerful government offices inform the public about what they consume. From the early years of FDA food standards, with concerns about consumer protection, up to present-day efforts to modernize the Nutrition Facts panel, Frohlich explores the evolving popular ideas about food, diet, and responsibility for health that inform what goes on the label and who gets to decide that"--
Download or read book Cleavage written by Nora Jacobson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's breasts have been idealized as symbols of femininity and motherhood. They have held great social and psychological significance as objects drawing intrusive gazes, and as images of self worth to be measured against an idealized form. It is no wonder, then, that a technology emerged to alter and "enhance" their appearance. Nora Jacobson traces the hundred-year history of one such technology: breast implants. Organized both chronologically and thematically, this book examines the history of breast implant technology from 1895 to 1990, including the controversies that erupted in the early 1990s over the safety of the devices and the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of their use. Jacobson examines such topics as politics and bias in medical practice and the role of bureaucracies, corporations, and governments in establishing policy and regulating implant technology.
Download or read book Rhetorical Bodies written by Jack Selzer and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What significance does the physical, material body still have in a world of virtual reality and genetic cloning? How do technology and postmodern rhetoric influence our understanding of the body? And how can our discussion of the body affect the way we handle crises in public policy--the politics of race and ethnicity; issues of "family values" that revolve around sexual and gender identities; the choices revolving around reproduction and genome projects, and the spread of disease? Leading scholars in rhetoric and communication, as well as literary and cultural studies, address some of the most important topics currently being discussed in the human sciences. The essays collected here suggest the wide range of public arenas in which rhetoric is operative--from abortion clinics and the World Wide Web to the media's depiction of illiteracy and the Donner Party. These studies demonstrate how the discourse of AIDS prevention or Demi Moore's "beautiful pregnancy" call to mind the physical nature of being human and the ways in which language and other symbols reflect and create the physical world.
Download or read book FDA Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fda Follies written by Herbert Burkholz and published by . This book was released on 1994-05-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how the Food and Drug Administration failed in its mission to protect the national health during the years of the Reagan-Bush presidencies. Undeterred by the FDA's notorious secretiveness and its penchant for treating critics as pariahs, the novelist and investigative journalist Herbert Burkholz has unearthed a wealth of damning information about the FDA. The book shows how a decade of indifference turned this vital agency responsible for ensuring the safety of our food and drugs into a partner with industry - and the consumer's worst friend. The FDA Follies is a fascinating saga, revealing in full for the first time: how a few generic drug manufacturers bribed FDA reviewers into getting their products to the marketplace early, how a determined band of AIDS activists took on the FDA and forever changed the way our drugs are approved and marketed, how the FDA and the blood bank industry let precious years slip by while the nation's blood supply was contaminated with the HIV virus, how the agency approved faulty heart valves that killed and silicone breast implants that flattered women while maiming them, and how those famous killer grapes from Chile were actually poisoned in the FDA's own laboratories. The book concludes with an analysis of how a reformed agency under new and active leadership in the 1990s is struggling to retrieve its credibility and authority and become once again the proper guardian of the national health.
Download or read book Genetically Yours written by Hwa A. Lim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers all the key aspects and current affairs in the field of biotechnology, with topics ranging from genome projects, through animal and human cloning, to biowarfare.
Download or read book Empty Pleasures written by Carolyn Thomas de la Peña and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Empty Pleasures, a rich and rewarding read, makes the tools of cultural analysis available to a wide range of readers. De la Pena's argument, that artificial sweeteners provide consumers with a way to exercise `indulgent restraint,' will surely re-energi
Download or read book Magill s Medical Guide written by Anne Chang and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrombolytic therapy & TPA, Thrombosis & thrombus, Thumb sucking, Thyroid disorders, Thyroid gland, Thyroidectomy, Tics, Toilet training, Tonsillectomy & adenoid removal, Tonsillitis, Tooth extraction, Toothache, Torticollis, Touch, Touretteʼs syndrome, Toxemia, Toxic shock syndrome, Toxicology, Toxoplasmosis, Tracheostomy, Trachoma, Transfusion, Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), Transplantation, Tremors, Trichinosis, Trichomoniasis, Tropical medicine, Tubal ligation, Tuberculosis, Tumor removal, Tumors, Turner syndrome, Typhoid fever & typhus, Ulcer surgery, Ulcers, Ultrasonography, Umbilical cord, Unconsciousness, Upper extremities, Urethritis, Urinalysis, Urinary disorders, Urinary system, Urology, Urology, pediatric, Vagotomy, Varicose vein removal, Varicose veins, Vascular medicine, Vascular system, Vasectomy, Venous insufficiency, Veterinary medicine, Viral infections, Visual disorders, Vitamins & minerals, Voice & vocal cord disorders, Von Willebrandʼs disease, Warts, Weaning, Weight loss & gain, Weight loss medications, Well baby examinations, West Nile virus, Whiplash, Whooping cough, Wilsonʼs disease, Wisdom teeth, Wiskott Aldrich syndrome, World Health Organization, Worms, Wounds, Wrinkles, Xenotransplantation, Yellow fever, Yoga, Zoonoses, Glossary, Diseases & Other Medical Conditions, Types of Health Care Providers, Medical Journals, Web Site Directory, Entries by Anatomy or System Affected, Entries by Specialties & Related Fields.
Download or read book Exit with Honor written by William E Pemberton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few presidents have sparked as much interest in recent years as Ronald Reagan, already the subject of a large number of biographies and specialized subjects. This biography, based on recent research into the Reagan archives and synthesis of the large memoir literature, explores the shaping of his values and beliefs during his childhood in the American heartland, his leadership of the American conservative movement, and his successful political career culminating in the first two-term presidency since Dwight Eisenhower. Pemberton finds Reagan's personal career and ability to understand and communicate with the American people admirable, but finds many of the long-term effects of his presidency harmful.
Download or read book Issues for Debate in American Public Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Debate in American Public Policy is a collection of sixteen editions of The CQ Researcher, one of the most respected sources for research in current issues. Students, interested citizens, government and business leaders, and others will find in these pages reliable and complete information on a wide range of topics. These editions of The CQ Researcher, in the tradition of nonpartisan reporting and analysis that is the hallmark of Congressional Quarterly, present readers with balanced accounts of issues on the public agenda. CQ staff writers provide background as well as current analysis. Each edition of The CQ Researcher also incorporates the voices of people in the thick of the policy process: people from lobbies, nonprofits, think tanks, academia, and government.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Government written by Ed Joseph M Bessette and published by Salem Press. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains two hundred alphabetically arranged articles discussing subjects important to American government.
