-Caveat Lector-
"Health Advice" to I bet.
Newsweek or Time
Georges (Kennedy's old rag) gone and 3 others
under the same person.,
Check out Time magazine
Aliens Take Over The Tabloids!
Exclusive! New Exec Grabs No. 3; Jonbenet In Danger!
BY PAUL GRAY - nov 15, 1999
". The deal would also give American Media
ownership of other Globe titles, including the Sun
and the National Examiner, putting nearly all of
America's tabloid gossip under one corporate umbrella. "
"David Pecker, the former chief of Hachette
Filipacchi (Elle, George) who became president
and CEO of American Media in May,"
>my question: wasn't "George" Kennedy's
old magazine before he died?<
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,33846,00.html
Shane A. Saylor, Eccentric Bard wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Clinton Pushes Net Drug Rules
> Plan Requires Web Sites to Get Federal Approval
>
> By Laura Meckler
> The Associated Press
> W A S H I N G T O N, Dec. 27 �Hoping to stem illegal sales of prescription
> drugs over the Internet, President Clinton is proposing new laws that would
> require Web sites to get federal approval and that would stiffen fines for
> violators.
> Clinton also wants $10 million for the Food and Drug Administration to
> strengthen enforcement, officials said today.
> �Many of the traditional safeguards that have been in place for many
> years are breaking down,� FDA Commissioner Jane Henney said. �We have to
> have a way to keep some semblance of a safety net in place.�
> New laws and new money would have to be approved by Congress.
> Traditionally, states have regulated pharmacies. But the Internet poses
> new, interstate challenges, in which a Web site operator may be in one
> state, the pharmacist in another and a patient in a third, Henney noted.
> In many cases, legitimate online pharmacies make it easy and convenient
> for consumers to get the drugs they need delivered to their doors,
> particularly for people in rural areas and the homebound.
> Drugs Sent Without Prescription
> But there have been several cases in which Web sites sent drugs out without
> a valid prescription or dispensed drugs that were not legally available in
> the United States.
> The FDA recently uncovered illegal at-home AIDS tests sold via the
> Internet that didn�t work, meaning some people may have thought they were
> healthy when they had the deadly HIV virus.
> The FDA also has pointed to a 53-year-old Chicago man who died after
> taking the impotence pill Viagra he ordered via the Internet. He never saw a
> doctor who could have advised him that he had heart disease risks that make
> taking Viagra dangerous.
> �Traditionally, there have been several safeguards to protect consumers
> against unsafe use of drugs,� the White House said in a draft of a fact
> sheet to be released Tuesday. �The Internet makes it easy to bypass these
> safeguards. Unethical doctors can illegally prescribe pills online to
> consumers they have never met in states where they are not authorized to
> work.�
> The administration has said repeatedly it is not interested in
> regulating the Internet, hoping to avoid stifling the growing medium. But
> officials said they must protect consumers, who may not know whether an
> online drugstore is legitimate or whether its pharmacists have been properly
> trained.
>
> FDA Launches Web Page
> Last week, the FDA opened a consumer-advice Web page to help patients ensure
> they�re buying from legitimate stores instead of dangerous quacks.
> But the agency has been frustrated in its crackdown effort. Under
> current federal law, it is only a misdemeanor to improperly dispense drugs.
> Under Clinton�s proposal:
> Online pharmacies would be required to get FDA certification that they are
> legally operating or face sanctions.
> Violators would face a $500,000 fine for each time they sold a prescription
> drug to someone without a valid prescription.
> The FDA would get new power to subpoena the records of online sites while
> investigating these operators.
> The FDA would get $10 million in the 2001 budget to hire investigators and
> upgrade computer equipment.
> It is unclear how these rules, even if approved, would affect Web sites
> operating out of other countries.
>
> Congressional Response Unclear
> The White House also plans a public education campaign, using $250,000 of
> FDA money budgeted this year for a variety of other programs. It will
> include ads on health Web sites and public service announcements for
> television.
> It may be tough getting Congress to give new money or power to the FDA,
> which did not get most of its budget requests granted this year. But Henney
> is optimistic. �We think Congress is interested in the Internet overall,�
> she said.
> With the exception of child pornography, the Internet has been largely
> unregulated by government.
> But other regulations will probably come as government tries to apply
> long-standing laws to cyberspace, said Tara Lemmey, president of the San
> Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which tracks Internet public
> policy.
> �This may be the first of a series of these that we see,� she said.
>
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