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To: AlienTech who wrote (7730)	5/5/1998 1:43:00 AM
From: porcupine --''''>	Respond to of 23519

porx astonished --,,,,x> Wall Street Journal, May 4, 1998, Op Ed page: Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Robert Goldberg writes, "....the FDA has pulled a television commercial for an injection drug called Muse until Vivus ... replaces the woman's voice reading risk information with a man's. "According to Nancy Ostrove, an assistant commissioner for drug marketing at the FDA, having a woman talking about the risks is a way of softening the blow..." Does Vivus have to have Boris Karloff read the warning label --!?!?>