U.S. FDA to alter drug-advisory rules

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/24/business/fda.php

It's about time... but it could go further.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Monday that it planned to write new guidelines specifying when outside scientists and doctors serving on agency advisory panels should be disqualified because of conflicts of interest.

The agency is also considering whether to make more information available to the public from advisory committee members' financial disclosures. The panels make recommendations to the agency on allowing drugs and medical devices to go on the market.
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1. Their conflicts of interest have been the deaths of and serious

side effects experienced by your relatives.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LD50

For other uses, see LD50 (disambiguation).


An LD50 test being administered

In toxicology, the LD50 (abbreviation for "Lethal Dose, 50%") or median lethal dose of a poison or radiation is the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population. LD50 figures are frequently used as a general indicator of a substance's toxicity. The test was created by J.W. Trevan in 1927.<1>

The term semilethal dose is occasionally used with the same meaning, particularly in translations from non-English-language texts, but can also refer to a sublethal dose; because of this ambiguity, it should generally be avoided.

MeSH (ID D007928) defines LD50 as:

The dose amount of poisonous or toxic substance or dose of ionizing radiation required to kill 50% of the tested population. Year introduced: 1976(1971).