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Maty K Ponder gust told the Senate Committee on labor and Human Resources that these bills "could needless ly expose patients to dangerous products " There will Ive no requirement to study drugs < arefullv in humans prior to use in treat ment. she said All drugs that currently go through the FDA must meet strut standards Indore they ire approved New drug applied turns that are presented to the FDA must contain substantial si ii-utifh evidence of both the safety and effectiveness of the drug for its intended uses, and the drug must be tested on am mals for toxicity That informa tion will la* used in developing a plan for testing on humans, iii cording to the FDA After extensive studies of reproductive offer t%. effects on the fetus and long-term use. the tost results are submitted to the FDA FDA medical officers, chemist*, statistic ians and phar macologists review the applica tion to determine if the sponsor's data in fat t show that the drug is safe and effective, ai cording to the FDA But DeFazio says this process of approving drugs through the FDA is costly and time consum ing Many alternative treatments using natural materials i annul he patented, but unless patent ed, their originators cannot afford to meet the FDA's requirement* for new drugs, ai (ording to a press release from I JeFiiiao’i offii e "As we confront escalating medu.il costs and struggle to protect the Medicare program, alternative medicine offers affordable and often effei live treatments for chronic illnesses that require long-term care." DeFazio said DeFazio said lie Imcaine involved in the issue Iwcuuse it is a personal interest of his Over the years he has used the ser vices of acupuncturists and naturopaths He is also respond ing to the public's demand to make non-narmful alternative and potentially life-saving treat ments more widely available to consumers, said Jacquelyn Davis, a spokeswoman for DcFu/io Dr Daniel Hard), a naturopath in fcugenc*. said the a< ( is a wry good thing (or health care. }mx a use it gives the doctors more ( hoic es Hardt dismisses many of the safety concerns held by the FDA. saving that you have to give credit to the < on sumers ability to make healthy det i Stons "Consumers lire the ultimate t he< k on the market," he said Hardt points to a case in Washington where he says a doctor was investigated by the federal government for using B vitamins from Germany that had not been approved The Am ess to Medic al Treatment Ac t would improve this situation, he said. The bill requires full disc io -■'.ill', to patients lit the i (intents and possible side effec ts of treat ments and mandates that patients be notified if the feder al government has not vet proved the drug to he safe or effec tive It also specifies that only state-licensed health c are providers working within the scope of their practice may administer the treatments. The bill stric tly regulates how claims i an tie made on treatment effect ■ tiveness, and prohibits all adver tising and lalieling claims when a treatment's promotion is linked to a person.li financial inrentiv c* "I want to gel the thousand pound gorilla known as the IDA off of the hacks of people who want ac c ess to beneficial alternative health treatments w ithout compromising the pub lic's safety.” UuFa/.io said. "This legislation will accom plish that goal.” Forum: U.S. must provide leadership ■ Continued from Page 1 territory and had pro* burned their own Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hentegov in.i One International proposal for a t ease fire involved dividing the country into JO semiau tonomou* regions, in each of which one of the contending ethnic tehgions groups would domi nate "Yet, multi (ethnic! accommodation is the tra dition of Hosnia-Her/egovina. and Western gov ernment has faded to see this." Yasui said ■'This war was not started from ancient hatred or spontaneous fighting," he said, "it was a well thought-out war by the Serbian president and intellectuals " If the United States doesn't take leadership as a multi-ethnic state, (hen (lie Europeans won't fol low ho said "This was proved by the Gulf War " "And just because Bosnia doesn't have oil. wo re not involved," he said, "Wo have to ask our gov emment for moral leadership and to stop the c.ost Ixoiefit analysis " trt*orge Zaninovich a University political sci f!H o !eii< her, asked, "Why haven't the Serbs in the United States spoken out against the war?" A member of the audience. Midhut l)elii. a University student who < arne from Bosnia four months ago, answered, "Of everyone who is opposed to the war, none of those are ready to give up what the Bosnian Serbs have gotten In forte in Bosnia — none of them is ready to give Up the territory '" For For WORK : PLAY : "Ml* Software to keep(you GOING ALL OF THE TIME. 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