FDA Consumer Magazine -- February 1989
Table of Contents

Speeding Help and Hope to the Desperately Ill
Commissioner Frank Young explains FDA's most recent steps to reduce the time needed to test new drugs for AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening or permanently disabling diseases.

Helping Children with Attention Disorder
Fidgety, inattentive, impulsive - a picture that fits most school-age youngsters from time to time. Yet, for one in five children these traits are so uncontrollable that medical help - even use of controversial drugs - is required.

Fishing for Facts on Fish Safety
As more Americans are making fish a healthful part of their diets, the safety of seafood is being questioned. The controversy has led FDA to take a closer look at its seafood program.

Eyes Too Dry to Cry: How Sjogren Syndrome Makes the Body a Desert'
Two million Americans may suffer from a condition that robs the eyes, mouth, and other organs of essential moisture. There is no cure, so those afflicted must rely on artificial tears, artificial saliva, and other symptomatic relief.

ICU: The Hospital Within a Hospital
A modern hospital's intensive care unit can be a strange, frightening place to patients and their families. This photo "tour" helps shed some light on what those tubes, wires, and high-tech machines are all about.

Great Expectations: Is the U.S. Doing Its Best to Beat AIDS?
The tragedy of AIDS has aroused high hopes for a much-needed medical miracle, and frustration that it hasn't yet occurred. FDA's AIDS coordinator discusses how well the government is doing its job in fighting this still incurable disease.

Test Your Cholesterol Consciousness
OK class, close your nutrition books, take out your pencils, and see how much you know about that stuff so near (but not dear) to your hearts: cholesterol. There's no plaque for the best scores.

(Hypertext updated by clb March 16)