If the U.S. Food and Drug Ad ministration has its way, many a bottle is going to disappear from drugstore and medicine-cabinet shelves in the next year or so. A few have been knocked off recently, but more will go now that FDA is invoking the power to reassess all the drugs that were approved from 1938 through early 1963, to see whether they measure up to the high standards set by the "thalidomide law." That law, officially the Drug Amendments Act, passed in 1962, contained a delay clause allowing previously approved drugs to...
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