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The complete U.G.D.P. study will, in fact, be published later this month in Diabetes, a journal devoted to the disease. But in the absence of new evidence, the FDA's decision is likely to stand. Its impact has been enormous. The 34 protesters say that they will continue to...
Cautious Encouragement. The Michigan team, led by Dr. Robert Nalbandian of Blodgett Memorial Hospital in Grand Rapids, owes its discovery to the work of another researcher, Makio Murayama of the National Institutes of Health. Murayama discovered that the sickle-cell shape is caused by an abnormal bonding between hemoglobin molecules...
The Food and Drug Administration jumped into a medical dispute this fall when it warned doctors to restrict their use of tolbutamide, an orally administered antidiabetes drug. Now the dispute has grown into an angry battle. Meeting recently in Boston, 34 of the nation's leading diabetologists joined forces...
The disagreement began last June when the FDA received a sobering report from the University Group Diabetes Program, an organization of twelve medical schools that had been studying the oral drug. The study, which followed 823 diabetics for eight years, found that the death rate from cardiovascular diseases was twice...
Violent Reaction. The dissident diabetologists accused the FDA of "unprecedented interference with the practice of medicine," and charged it with damaging the welfare of a million diabetics. As for the U.G.D.P. report, they noted that all diabetics are susceptible to cardiovascular disease. The study included unusually sick diabetics, they argued...