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...testing us." People understand that there are some things health officials don't know, and others that they can't say. But the failure to protect mailmen as vigilantly as anchormen and Congressmen looked negligent on its face. Postal workers were furious that congressional aides--and even Capitol police dogs--who might have been exposed to the Daschle letter received immediate treatment, while mail handlers were left in the dark for days. But in fact some congressional aides shared their complaint. An aide says neither he nor any of his colleagues were told to get treatment. They learned about...
...them. But postal workers Joseph Curseen Jr., 47, and Thomas Morris Jr., 53, still delivered the message. Think bigger, Curseen and Morris told us. The only thing more elusive than the terrorists are the microscopic weapons they have unleashed. The baby-powder- like substance in the letter opened on Capitol Hill on Oct. 15 does not respect laws and traditions such as gravity and envelopes. So authorities must not continue to abide by the old rules that put public calm before caution, process before speed...
...More closures on Capitol Hill? As New York and New Jersey officials struggle to deal with new anthrax cases, authorities in Washington D.C. have agreed to a plan to close down the Hart office building, where Senator Daschle?s office is located, in order to fumigate the entire structure with chlorine dioxide gas, a substance proven to kill anthrax bacteria. The treatment would keep the building off-limits for at least two weeks, but would preserve paperwork and computers. Testing continues at the Longworth office building; employees are expected to return sometime next week...
...same time, on Capitol Hill and at the Food and Drug Administration, BMS has remembered its self-interest. The company is trying to leverage a provision of drug law designed to help children to secure a three-year extension on its exclusive right to sell a top-grossing diabetes drug, Glucophage - and hiring a world of lobbyists to help make it happen. The tablet form of the drug brings the company $1.4 billion a year...
...During the debate, some generic companies went to Capitol Hill with a concern: BMS was asking the FDA to approve a new interpretation of the agency's rules that, if successful, would allow it to use the findings from its pediatric study - for which it already received six months of additional monopoly - to keep generic versions of the drug off the market for an extra 3 years. The reason? FDA regs entitle companies that change their labels due to new research to have an extra three years of exclusivity. BMS argued that since data gleaned from its pediatric study...