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April 9, 2013
Last week, a federal district judge in New York ruled that girls younger than 17 should be allowed to purchase the Plan B contraceptive pill over the counter. Unlike the Obama administration, Judge Edward Korman got this one right. The 2011 decision by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to restrict access for younger girls not only denied them a safe and legal means to prevent unwanted pregnancy but ignored all scientific evidence that supported its access. Emergency contraceptive pills, commonly known as "Plan B," are drugs that work to prevent pregnancy if taken shortly after sexual intercourse.
NEWS
December 22, 2006
Did you know?--One in 1,000 Americans develops blood clots, or deep vein thrombosis, after traveling on long flights each year. - Food and Drug Administration
NEWS
November 10, 2004
To make the brine for Patrick O'Connell's Spruced-Up Turkey recipe that ran in Taste last week, only loose sassafras tea should be used. The bark of sassafras root as a food additive is banned by the Food and Drug Administration.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | May 8, 2013
William H. Hoffman, a retired U.S. Food and Drug Administration official, died Monday from septic shock after kidney transplant surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The longtime Ellicott City resident was 81. William Harry Hoffman was born in Baltimore and raised on East Lanvale Street and his grandfather's Owings Mills farm. After graduating from Polytechnic Institute in 1950, he worked briefly as a carpenter's assistant and as a draftsman at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point plant, while attending the Johns Hopkins University at night.
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By CHICAGO TRIBUNE | January 13, 2006
The Food and Drug Administration will let researchers test small amounts of experimental drugs on people at a much earlier stage than previously allowed, under guidelines announced yesterday. The new rules are meant to help identify drugs that won't be approved before too much time and money are expended, federal officials said. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael O. Leavitt said, "The recommendations ... will help more researchers conduct earlier, more-informed studies of promising treatments."
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By New York Times News Service | April 21, 1993
WASHINGTON -- The French company that makes the abortion pill RU-486 has agreed to license the drug to a U.S. contraceptive research group so it can find a manufacturer in the United States, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday.The commissioner, Dr. David Kessler, said that after a meeting yesterday in Rockville, Md., Edouard Sakiz, president of the French company, Roussel-Uclaf, agreed to license the drug and the technology to make it to the Population Council, a not-for-profit research organization based in New York City.