| Lack of funds nearly crippled FDA, report finds
Those are a few symptoms of the poor condition in which the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finds itself after decades of inadequate funding and growing responsibilities, according to a new report by a special FDA committee that was assigned to assess the agency's scientific and technological capabilities. The bottom line is that "American lives are at risk," says the 60-page report, titled "FDA Science and Mission at Risk: Report of the Subcommittee on Science and Technology." The report says the agency is losing its ability to keep up with scientific advances, its regular staff has stayed about the same size for 20 years, and its information technology (IT) systems are obsolete and unreliable. "We found that FDA's resource shortfalls have resulted in a plethora of inadequacies that threaten our society - including, but not limited to, inadequate inspections of manufacturers, a dearth of scientists who understand emerging new technologies, inability to speed the development of new therapies, an import system that is badly broken, a food supply that grows riskier each year, and an information infrastructure that was identified as a source of risk in every Center and program reviewed by the Subcommittee," the report states.
The gravesite of Sheila and Paul Wellstone at Lakewood Cemetery.
28TH & HENNEPIN Plans to incorporate the Walker Library and the Isles Allina Medical Clinic into an expanded YWCA community center near 28th Street and Hennepin Avenue are dead for now. The idea, which the YWCA has discussed for about a year, proved to be too complicated to allow the center to continue providing services during construction. It would have had to shut down for a couple years, forcing its members to go elsewhere. "While there was deep political support for this and neighborhood support, we determined it was too much of an operational challenge," said real estate consultant Caren Dewar, who worked with the YWCA to evaluate development possibilities. Karen Sterk, director of health and fitness at Full Article .
NBA calls for do-over in Hawks-Heat game
Play will start from the time after O'Neal's disputed sixth foul.The Hawks also were fined $50,000, with commissioner David Stern ruling the team was ``grossly negligent'' in failing to address the mistake.The protest is the first granted by the NBA since December 1982, when then-NBA commissioner Larry O'Brien upheld a request for a replay by the San Antonio Spurs after their 137-132 double-overtime loss to the Los Angeles Lakers the previous month.The Spurs and Lakers finished the game in April 1983, with San Antonio winning 117-114. .
Overdose deaths soaring
More than two years ago, Michelle Gilmore was a completely different person. She lied, conned and stole to feed an addiction to drugs, she said. "It loved me. It was always there for me," she said, adding that in her lifetime she has used just about every kind of drug except heroin and ecstasy. .
US elections 2004
For supporters of John Kerry, who have seen allegations about the Democratic candidate's military record sap his campaign, it must have seemed like a case of just deserts.
The president, George Bush, was last week looking vulnerable on the same grounds after CBS's flagship current affairs show, 60 Minutes, broadcast a report claiming he had been suspended from pilot duties for failing to meet the required standards. It was also claimed that a commanding officer had been put under pressure to "sugar coat" Mr Bush's performance reviews.
But while CBS stands by its story, allegations have now surfaced that 60 Minutes based a large part of the report on forged documents.
Although what one man - even a presidential candidate - did more than 30 years ago can seem rather trivial, the US election is being fought between a self-declared "war president" and a man who, in stump speeches, claims he would defend his country as president in the way he had defended it as a young man.
Pharm MD Solutions Becomes an ASCP MTM Provider Partner
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) announces that PharmMD Solutions has become one of ASCP's Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Provider Partners. This announcement was made today at Senior Care Pharmacy '07 - ASCP's 38th Annual Meeting and Exhibition taking place in Philadelphia. The need for skilled clinicians to deliver MTM services has increased dramatically since the coverage of MTM services under Medicare Part D, especially for patients residing outside of nursing facilities. Our MTM Provider Partners, recognizing the excellence of ASCP members, turned to the Society to help them enlist consultant and senior care pharmacists to deliver MTM services to their contracted enrollees. Consultant and senior care pharmacists are clinicians specially trained in geriatric pharmacotherapy who review patients' medication regimens to ensure they are receiving the most appropriate, safe, and most effective medications, and that they are used appropriately.
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