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A sad day for science at the FDA

Article Abstract:

The implications of the rejection by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) management of an application from its committee members to make emergency contraception for women accessible over the counter and without prescription are discussed. The FDA is thus observed to have positioned science and human concern behind considering the political pressure.

Author: Wood, Alastair J.J., Greene, Michael F., Drazen, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: Massachusetts Medical Society
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2005
Market information - general, Management dynamics, New England States, Management, Supply and demand, Company business management, Contraceptives, Postcoital, Postcoital contraceptives, New England, United States. Food and Drug Administration

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The partial death of abortion rights

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The Supreme Court signaled a significant change in abortion jurisprudence on April 18, 2007 held in Gonzales v. Carhart case. The case led the federal statute outlawing the use of "partial-birth abortion" is constitutional.

Author: Kraft, Monica, Charo, Alta R.
Publisher: Massachusetts Medical Society
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2007
United States, Government domestic functions, Interpretation and construction, Company legal issue, Cases, Health policy, Public health law, Reproductive rights

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