Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 15, 1994 TAG: 9404160010
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A8 EDITION: METRO
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration has approved the anti-cancer drug Taxol for use in advanced breast cancer patients, the drug's manufacturer said Thursday.
Taxol was approved in 1992 for treatment of metastatic ovarian cancer.
Now, doctors also can use it to treat women with metastatic breast cancer who do not respond to chemotherapy or who relapse despite it, said Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
- Associated Press
Female condoms OK'd for sale in U.S.
WASHINGTON - Female condoms will start appearing in American drugstores this summer after the administration acted Thursday to allow a U.S. company to ship them into the country.
The Food and Drug Administration notified Wisconsin Pharmacal, which makes the Reality female condom, that it had approved the company's manufacturing plant in London, said company spokeswoman Holly Birnbaum Sherman.
Associated Press
If you drink, be sure you don't walk
ATLANTA - Anti-drunken driving campaigns have done little to reduce the problem of tipsy pedestrians. Of the more than 5,500 pedestrians killed in traffic accidents in 1992, one-third were under the influence, the government said Thursday.
About 1,720 drunken pedestrians died in car accidents that year, three times the number of pedestrians killed by drunken drivers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
- Associated Press
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