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...however, moved quickly to respond to what it called "a potential safety issue related to Avandia," issuing a safety alert on the drug just hours after Nissen's study was made public. While the agency pointed out that other studies of the drug have reached different conclusions, it nonetheless will take up the issue of the cardiovascular risk of Avandia and similar drugs with an advisory committee "as soon as one can be convened." Earlier data about Avandia prompted the FDA to strengthen the drug's warning label last year. The FDA also disclosed that GSK recently provided...
Ryan M. Travia, director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services and a member of the Committee on Social Clubs which designed the new policy, told The Crimson that the lower levels are largely due to Harvard’s amnesty policy, which does not levy penalties on students who seek medical attention or students who bring their friends to the hospital...
...ignored Travia’s statement to the detriment of the student body. Rather than focus on the positives of the College’s new amnesty policy, this committee—unsurprisingly commissioned by the General Counsel of the University and not the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services—centered its attention on two near-death incidents last fall...
...report, which is almost comical in its naiveté, states, "The Committee’s impression is that undergraduates view excessive drinking or drug use as an accepted feature of college life" and "it is imperative that we try to change attitudes on campus now, before such an incident occurs." It is obvious from just those two sentences how out of touch the Committee—which did not include students—was for the realities of student life...
...really exciting about this is that it really accelerates our ability to understand this disease. Now that we can show that it can happen in a dish, we can find out how, why, and what are the first things that go wrong, and use this as a platform for drug discovery,” Cowan said in an interview...