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Safety First How A Device to Aid in Breast Self-Exams If Kept Off the Market Other Nations Approved It But U.S. Demands Proof Simple Pad Isn't Risky Nine Year Battle with the FDA

Date: 19940412/P
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Maui Clinic
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Alpert, S.
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In. = Rward^'s secon^;-larg^s' dr , Butare. rrft!- `eesf:'oti:.'L'iai'•.I'?:S('JiCirrr^,p^'1^ gttr;'l it' tba.t were se'tin; f:re te vii!aces an•i `aci:inK 4'a residents to aeat .;.tost reliei ar:encies -uliea forei;n ctaf`e-~ o::; of the Z'acC'.a.hac'r:C' -tn' an }'. l'ft~'r'i?'O r2 ~C^•h'r,' ECi~ latc'CP17e Itte i, rcb~ ~ a*d l ;r ; . , 't,; ,'rz rc5e';; ~~ .,•, scd ;c r:r,^t a„-. 1-<. . , The Clistons pa., S:3.^ ir, bac:. ;L :al and state taxes and Vmt? est ^ft't lin; to renor , a SoA:S cana2i sriin in t: c 'Otilrrts The rr_'S:den:'S De~- nt sonal attorney said the capiai gair, re suited from c mmalities tra~ing by ~ ir<. Clinton. (Articie or Page A20) x .. A forrner denltty prirne ^?ir:steremerged as an unexpected contender to become Ja- rans next leader. Michic Watanabe. ~C, ~ member of the oooos:tion Libcra: Demo. cr:t`-ic Party, declared his interest :n jc r,in2 'ith some e!em:ents of the ruiinfl coaiition in :rder, to succced P:im^_ Minister N'^so- t:aw'a. r:'-rtrcie on oa,;e AI2. * * X. • `r Israel has _7*e^d to re!ez,:e 2,5^ Pales- 'is tinian rrison^.'; tv•o dG°c after " s;s at. accord',,-ith the PLO on 1--racl's nu:ic'-tt:`~D:n', Gaza and .ier -..."i.^.In,f.' to .. _ _l• negotl^tnr in Cairc. . he LL;tt,d-av; _: scr;;rd, I to ri~ na!1v due tc .,. ,ne~ to;~..rre•.• at the ;a:esf, . ow is =x~ecte.: to be +'ras~oe> ao by the end cf ,..., ncat:,. enra'l:;' n'-:vtI1s "'~ ,-!^L' IC) r c.' te than orerno t n ~e. of br ce:ls a.^_ ccrnection:. :we_„ ?i c .: °ced s en . on ~a>e . on :..,. (Artic o ?overtv is i^_re asL z dramaiicaliy ar.:on, ,he natio^'s in.`anue and toddiers, according to a cor,gressional study that said many of these children are 1.~cked o:7' ...cf fr•(t," . ++c! ^~irt ~;io•t r,r>,°rr1)c ever to serve in the White House. In the process, she also has become the most powerful chief of staff that the East ; ALUMINUM PRODL'CTIO\ in the I.T.S. fell to a^ PnnuRl rate of 3,371,658 metrtc tons in March from 3,401,096 metric tons in February, the Aluminum Association re- por`s' ,5'ing - the first ] programs in 19?7 and 19S`:, now drops them can get: two sealed plastic sheets with £ 27St1 ClCG~%~S 1 71~,JiLte i 'orlackofworkerinterest; many people just lubricant in between. It is laid over a leave at lunch to smoke, or smoke at home, woman's breast like a cloth durin~ cr 1 i I says spokeswornan Deanna Frautschi. Bell examination, to reduce friction. R?"ii 6gS ~Y ei.v C' -,. i Atlantic, whict institut d a smoke-free ~''L^nda Richardson thilt; s;[ p robabiy ._ . worknlace in 1988, also stops paying for spared r,er death from br east cancer. Johr 7 _ ~ ~~ f * r ' .'bP U S ~ ~ / " ~ i dvs domain at the ~~rCSI lllt OvCr 'Hlliarvii il(11. i ~'::z1;!C Vi~il3r'i); i~ili:15 `, Powcr Conlc_ at ^ Pric,~ , By Mir'.HAEL K. :l2ItiR1 cti'ASHIINGTC,N - h:arraret Williams has resumed w•ri'in,g poe,r'y again, a pas- '::ne shc eave up ~•ear: af;o. "The oaly th;n„vou have toMld on to is w'; at's inside "Tney can rant and rave about what I*ve done, or what they think I've 3cne." And just what has she done, the 39- year-old chief of staff to Hillary Rodham Clinton? By all accounts, Ms. }Villiams- know•n as Maggie - has become the most povrerful African- 1'RI\t'IM)\, i`IE\l' ,1F:If.tiF:1' 2Q4693sS86 7d ( . . FNT S ~~'~~ ~,~,~~~ Safety First L I A Special News Report on Peoplei How a Device to Aid And :'heirJobs in OfCces, In Breast S»lf_ExG[";5 ( °m)l n: cess.^.tion pro.-ams, as does Cor- s lio itc ui i/::pers, G','isconstn Rapids, Wis. rJbac ;xra•ire n.talnr d Cas of ;JCtrark: :'C.d., thcu;, ;, helps swntc 3,370 rmp:ouces who sl.aoke - c'F% of its trcrk torre-lhroug,^ American CancFr sor',tu ! andotherprcvtramti. By BKBNT BUwEfLti Staf( hoprrrtrr uj-1'nr. wni.t. Sn+ta;r Jur,+vn:. It is aboutas simple as a medical device v;;.het~, a snrFecn it .i,.: Maui C:-,r ,, Llaa„I,, says it i:. o„,: ;, ", or st effectl^e weapons against breast ^•.ncer in years. And Patricia Redmond, a New ','cr}: rad;o; oo st, says it "can abso:,rtely save lives." Out don , try buyind it in the U.S. Though ;nany d.nctors and cancer spec!al- IT'S STILL THE BACK of the p:ane for R1 ea'Ct:*n ;~'7 ~v ar '~- ~~4 I most busine:;s tt•a.velers. w}Lle the FDA 'r-eeps msny med Za- The er,d of the recessio^ hasr(t brought vice proc:ucers in Iiwith long delnye much more first -ciass ;ravel for executives, •' ir. approving ne^, nrnduclvt, it can alno ccmaanies say. Electronic Data Syster„s, tE.:c aw•ay spproval,~c;;es ,%i:: de•+r<. which ended such perks in 19?1, pays for first tating *eeatR. Bn-crprise, page tDE. class only if a cr,t;cal contract is at stake. .american General. a Houston insurer, re- i ists hail the Sersor Pad as a usefui tool in serves the wide seats for its executive v:ce detecting the disease that many women presidents and unit presidents. , fear rnost, and though it years ago sailed Home builder Centex Corp. and others ' through approval processes in countries in i ban first-class travel unless executives use ~ Europe and Asia, the Food and Drug freauent•!lier certificates. Most companies Administration won't let Inventive Prod• let executives keep their miles, then trade ucts Inc. sell it in this country. them in for free flights or upgrades. Encore ; Gr ant Wright, the president of Inven• Computer, Plantation, Fla., reimburses em- I tive Products, and his father, Earl, the plovees half of the discounted rate for any pad's co-inventor, have been fighting for flight in ',,,)ich personal frequent-flier miles ~ nine years to get clearance for the product. are used. What be~an as an FDA recuest for more infermat:on has degenerated into a long, G.t. YRETIREES soon will have their own 1 debititatinn strug,!e and allegations that retiremen:community. the Wrights viola:ed federal So ft•us- The Palms of Manasota, a 2C=r-ila com- trated did the .Vrights become abollt the plex, is on the drawing boards outside j burea'!cratic maze that six years ago the., who is building the started selling the pad to U.S. hospitals Sarasota Fia Bill Ia1ng , , ,,;tite House - has ; p,operty. is still searching for tha right site, without FDA clearance. That triggered a er seen; ir status- I,ut expects to f;r:d it soon. He already has court battle that they lost in 19:'2. Now they conscious V+ashinb- I receil'ed more tha.n. 300 inquiries after ads in i are back to tr'inF to v+in FDA blessng for ,on. it is Axts'eme!y ~ Scy N,,blications such as 10 Percent and the I the pad. i,!m pir Ll'i1.[iams s,gn``tcar`t that i+ls. Advocate tout The First Alternative Retire ; Stffl Ilo Innov3tion' ',V11:ams's ovm of- i ment Home." ` the dispu,hoisnt resolved saon, ce is located in the ;' ; i:e House's ~Vest There is r.othinc in the country like this, But i ',~inb. nolesbianst one, says r2tireme iirn. t Lahomeing, home" wfor gays and I Grant W i,htsays, , wiI dos? his Deca• ^ But Y:ere are '?~:es`ions about whaf ,o pians to tur, IIL, company, which ccsL about Si,oP, ,r Ms. ' ';:Pams has done regarding a month the vex• ncfude a pei';uanent ca e home for 'esi • hroush S 5B~C00 in legal has fiy bl)rre'; .c,nt.rrcersy ove- P.'esi•ect anc' rilrs. I dents unab:e to co^k and handie aaily •, ',V. teiater ~ w•ife and three?:ids," he sa s. '. v'e goC to a: ~'s nvestilent R w ch0;'es. ~'J11at about heterosex:al appli• . Dece:ocme^t /'. .^,ture• ! ao so,et;:ng w:L, m'y llfe." °a es'a' "e , cznts? "1f Iget straight peop,e who want to I Ler t~ss, hav^::i' been vie use as an con e in, I cannot bv law keep them out," he i•r' 1r.ght's strug~le, in the cyes of inspirat:on for w-omen, s increasin£le por- says. "But they must'r.now that it's going to some, is more than just he tale of a trayed in the press as an uptight lawyer I be made upef g•ty and lesbian people." I small-town entrepreneur's tangle with far• ^ is at the center of many of the ti r, [ning says he is plcasanQy sur away bureaucrats; it is more, too, than a administration's problems. Ms. Williams p;!p,d a'tnut a lack qf txtrkla,sh, "Wil study of , how the medlcnl devices tnuustn hers")fis^noofthreep,voplewhn wenlintr ,,rt;rrruv;hnrnnphol,irntnil.A'nt In the rohcs w'ILt thl' wrrld'n ntuo , , - , , .r , r , .r , , , n , , i „ 1- „, • , ... , 1 Kth'lnl', ,t r^4.n!a!,, n 1" . t; . ., .1,. Amerlcan wcman . COyiPAv}' S:lf0::I1G B:LNS: Do they Is Kept Off the ~~~ar~ie} actually help workers quit'. 5t(,rc'k Chairm,^.n Roy Vagelos says the !Uther NatIOI)S :~~.)~1rOV'E;Cl it. numbe!' of employees who smoke fell 25~~r ! ' during the first IS months of a companyw'ide I ,jt,t, U.S. DOIT1uI2CIS Proof b!n; more than 2 third of the employees who ; mok s^:oking•cessation classes stayed off SlII1ple Pad Isn tF.1SE:V ciQarottes fcr two vears. State Farm r eports similar ress,lts. "?'ve had employees come up and say to me that this is the only way 1 IN tIIC Y e3f }3 1ttlE 1'~t ith ~L~ ~+ they ever could have quit smoking," says personnel director Ron Prewitt. But Country Companies Insurance, Bloomington, Ill., which boasted a 25Sr suc- cess rate when it launched antismoking Ftelds and Fa ctones
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0 t"ith th!•','1.IJ c;:1 irr pIlliuUt frotn I .....o + on;: .. „~, . nl~;.,s::wt; '. 4!•<ttl.ti tniC.rCbt ::1 :Olni[ti• . tint'i 1'ri?^r 'lA:- Itr tb i ey• ':tlr, .: alliit'1': I'i',) (I al'; ilf i,•r ;{n T?:r acrurd.. trir,.,,,,. * * * t health and education programs• of these chiidren are loeked out ofi ng to a congressional study that said ! ; the natiun's lnfants and toddlers,I n:. (Art!clt' ntt PaCe I)i) "u•tertc Is increaslnF dramatically ~ p op _ w o wan t.:t. }„ nt , s t n r. ' cantss ge, s ra,g,a o; nn,v i; t;,:;e• ted to t,(' prc an i fice is ;!uatcd in the lCt:itr tiousr,'s West ~ „There i; r,nthing in the countr}• Ii}:e this, i r! u•` tlu: monat ti'inl,•i not one rctirement heme" for gays and „ But therr are questions about what I lesbians• says Mr. Laini`., who n!ans to ' hralns >''cnr m; L-c•d te G<' mcre ; ls, Wilitams has dc,ne regarding the vex 'I ir,ciudc; a permaner.t•care hon(e for resl :~'e thut;,rr;'viousiy itrl~u;;ht, wt,n thr': 1",ir cnntrcvers} over Pres!dent and ,trs, dents unable to cook and handle daily ~'f bcair, ceia and connectinns Clin;on's incest;nent in fhe Whitewater ~ chxa. What about heterosexual appii• I h.^ , c~ d b '^'i n' lepme r Co real-estate vetuure. ^,~If i t' rt ^ in `h t t e un h; be si ;,+. ... .. :t: :': - ` il:ams s own 0,• i ment ilOme. ' i immigrants. Gov. Chile. .aid the I ^,son beds for hun(!reds of thousands of ; for providing schxiing, health carc I Iio:ldc sued to collect 51.5 billion from i ;•^eral govern:nent to compensate the ; t-v; s the first of its kind. ^r.;earche in ?: edetp?da sr_id the}' ' u~,~ ann experimental vaccine to reduce the , •-^ence of malignan: me'.a.^•o^ta ie z I group of patients w•tt(t ti.e skr.^. i r. iArticie on Page B6) i * * * I t•e^,ar Ir, Ci•^•cinnati on radi^- ' >:neri:nents ronducted cturit: ; the 1960s. .rcerpati_^te r;ost' •pxrand black. * * * cus. par.ei hca-d tesamony trom pa• ( ..,..., ' elati~'e= A deicr'11ee s`-, ,. be co•Taensa:efl. Th= oer. ~^ -ere p_. :y fttn ded by the Fe-a.~, or•. Ye: ., iT~ t 1c K•O:-._Ll kr Is i/sir.,j l:e- i to a survey, with nearly <: qua. ier of ; i:'~7s sr.}^:ng at least one of their wori;ers' ceea attacked or killed or, the job since' :. According to the study, though, only; of emplovers offer some of their em- I l•res any formal training in coping with i ~r::,;iacc violence. (Arttc:e on Page Bl) i t:: a!ne and Russia itavo escaIated the:r ; ; te over the former Soviet Unio;t's Black eet. In the late•;t of a seriec of ;nci- e w, ::k.rainian scrvicemen seized control,' t fac; ity in Odessa harbor we: the ; ^d. (Artlcc on Page A12) ~ * ~ u hz_rd-?;ne p:;me mL^,ister qult i -2s succee~ed by the r.atior:'s ece:p-! ^ttnister, 'xho . a moderate. after wec e' army ciashe. ,''.'.h i .. ;uadantcnta:!sts. .... .. ^F:•i To F?rSt','S3ESTv . _-:'LS oF FAG^ a? . '.CiF'iCY DT~.IL7 • ;T>-estern `,' aste's :OI:P.dcr 1'ii,rog a re;o, Ti•;tiind ed o:.:tsde- . it , goai of cu•,Costw: . .:. . i:alnr. > s: pe<-fc:r:a;;ce. 3_. .w C:`i TI£r jTi:3t~': f.iiel'lert.~',~ a0_'0:.~ leave r ai; o` U.S., Cl• MeT?f~~i 1 :C~~eG: Morgan _: ?aunc'.:cs a mak°c : e-, CHE:YIICAL wOFC¢'ARE: Nearly two of ; three workers world-wide are ezr~sed to chemicals at work, the Internationai Lstxor i Organization reports. The United Nations ; arm says many problems involve agricul• ~ tural pesticides and chemical production. i "The problem is quite chronic in developing countries," says Isaac Obadia, iL0's health Her boss, having been viewed as an t come in, I cannot by law keep them out," he hir. «r(ght s struggle, m the eyes o some nsl:iration for v:omen, is increasingly por says. "f3ut they must know that it's going to ; , ts mnre than jttst the tate of a tra}•ed in the press as an uptight lawyer be made up of gay and lesb:Zr peoltle." smail•town entreprcne;;r's tangle with far• w•ho is at the crnter of many of the I away bureaucrats; it ls more, too, than a mr. I aing satrs he is pleasar,tty sur• I study of how the medicaMevices Industry adn;inistration's problerns. Ms. ;villiams i prised about a lack of backlash. "LI'e herself is one of three people who went into i hat en't pctten env homn hohic rnnih Not j in the U.S. copes with the world's most stringent regulatory system. To some ad- Depuly ~'~ hite ?Iouse Counsel Vincent Fos- an,t• •• I ter's c:iice the night he committed suicide. • vocates of his simple device, it Is a mani• Sl:c has been the target of conspiracy i THE FEDERs GOVEP`f iEh r kicks ~ fes[atlon of the way the nation's lftigatlon theories concerning what might have hap- off a massive effort to spur early retire driven aversion to Nsk can stifle =nnova- ened to Mr. F'o_t^r's files on the Clintons' ~ tion In the medical marketplace. "V, e as a P ` ments, U•Ss officiais hope to lure as many as invesiments i: Whaewater, ahich :ater ~ 1!b,00L workers to bail eut, as par t of the society refuse to take risks and wan! wer rsmoved and handed over to the fh•e•year goal of reducing the federal work j Pmarantees 'hat our lives are f cing to be Clin`ens' p°rsonal lawyer. force by 2(•2.CO0. Buyout o,fers begin at, perfect," says Mar} .almore, a C;ticago ~ . p~sT10ecitth°or~? 3s ~Viiiiamsew•ent into re ,' sevea agencies, irciuding the Agriculture jpDr~l P Imore acknowledges that the } and State depar ments. ,,G „ ,t Foster's o:`ftce, not out ci grief, as she says, FDA has a legal duty to ensure L°: the . o to look fo suicide rote, as ott.erP-7:;te ~ I;OhEY GnTS 'E1', but management ' isn't falsely promoted as a diap^osu; too; uc se aides have saic, but to retrieve any + i but suggests that the agency Iself may be keeps 'em, recent s:udles show. Sear c1; fira ; ooct:tnenis that might hurt the first lady. I Challenger, Gray & Christmas found in aI~ught up in what s't e sPes as a nptionai Th2 t is onr~ of the issues Speciai Counse': ' survey that;ob car•didates are wooed to new f Dbsession with safety. "The FDA ts cer. Robert Fistie is investigating. He also is I firms mostly by big salaries. But a separate cerned that in our liLg ors sxiet;: , a prr,b!ng wtiether there w ere improper com ' urvey by Wilson Learning Corp. says that i womau wih say: 'I used i;. and Irt tacts between R nite House and Treasur. ~ what keeps e^ ployees happy is sirong lead 4 anvway,' " Dr. Palmere sc} s c`fic ais over the fa.iied ?,Iadison Guaranty ! ership skilis amDng top m^nage ner,t. ; The agency says tha: safe ., t;; cavings t: Loan run by the Cl+^tons' «'hite- : tion, is•is main concern. An: t: r.r•rr.: ;. "wate- Partner. :is. GVilliams was present at c:•ebroary meeting with Deputy Trea- s.: ti' Secreta*' Roger Altmar.. SS': tpath r Cards Her involvement in the controversy has bee:nn painful and ironic for a woman who came to the White House as an idealistic, new-generation Democrat hoping to re- store faith in government• Instead of acco- I and safety expert. Training and be tter infor- ~ iades `or her influential position at the ! mation are crucial solutions, he says. ',`;hite House, Ms. Williams receives sym- II pathy cards from family friends. Some ; send flow•ers. I r' TRADING PLACES: Chemical compa• nles switcP: emp:oyees to learn new tric,'s. Dow Chemical Co. sent emplo^ee John I Latham on a t•a•o-year stint to show Nalco I ~ na« I's r;r;nvcntor, h^vc• br , f::. ttin^ } t ars to get c'I nr the produ: t 41•h'1t be„•an as r t'D:• request for mrve nforn;aUOn has de; :;erntrd imo a long. debi!uattng strvggl :ttnd altcgattons that the w'n,thts viol::ted federal law•. So frus' tratec: did th^ l~'riithtv become r:hout the bureaucratic maze ttm: six years ago they stnrtc:a selling the pad to U.S. hospitais without h'DA clearance• That trlgr~cred a court battle that they Iost in 1P9'3, rVow they aru back to trying to win FDA blessing f lr the pad. Stifling Innovation? But if the dispute isn't resolved soon, Grant Wright says, he wilt close his Deca• tur, ill., company, which costs about S4,t>0G a month to operate and has atrendy btur,ed through $356,000 in Iega1 fees. "I'm 33, wtth a wife and three kids," he says. "I've got to do something with my life." lin:ai!:n;:y loyal to the first lady. Ms. i ~r azr•s deciires to talk publicly aGout the ; ,•ifewafe: controversy, or a ut "any t"ing that has to do w•ith tny work." But , however Whitewater turns out fcr her, she ' says it is nothing compared with other I struggles she already has endured in her ~ lifi and carE^r. "You have to lonk at everything ; Serso- F w Chemical Co. a few i'tings about environ• ! defends its refusal to!urn:-rr :-,r S.,sor mental and safety ope:•ations. In exchange, I Pad• "Their intentv,c :• vt ^ wrtr,, Dow gets Nalco employee Steven Curtis to Susan Alper , director o' :~• F. share his expertise in sales and marketing j of Detidce Evaluation, se}• with Dow's Advanced Clea: ing Systems i ^ "Buttheissu_•ort...2n. bllsiness. that we don't a:bw V -,rR c is a!mo,: unheard of in the i that Such a swa s i:i ; p pc r.• es sgn czn in,se T!rn to Pace t 5. Cel<imv: i i cor,orate world. Dow North America.':ice ,endantberefit." PC i ICS POi ^Y: Leach, Clintons' cri:ic, :aces skeptics in ie a, AZQ. It '~.TIi: Nonp. 'f t hospitals stress ch^rity ~,ork to save tax breaks, Di. IRir.R*:::TIO:;P.i: Tourists' deaths sour Taipei•i`ieijiny ties, ii.3. i?E .L•'t'! & OLi?.00`r ; Whitewater George Mitchell and the Court, A1S. 0_jL~Or : _-rthu7 Scttlesinger agrees „:fh r3idwater on V+nitewater, A1E. LlISUFM & AP.'S5: Beethoven, P4ozart 2.^.c S ra ~ns y on CD RO' i, Pu5. ,c;v"r; ha!f of thc d;srnuntcr; r:tr for <.ny , r i' in c'•it t pt `n•:: fre,l,te::t'rhe'r mileti S,It:: !Ir, Jtc i,uc;t~rr+ pruc,`as, shc a~c: _ . . hr,s tuc•nmc' tl;o ii G:1YIiZ:PlRI:I;ti.ticronw'Pi?latethc'irmrn r.^s; w•'.'l " ul r'urf r"tLronu•r,t cu:nnronlt,r of $lafi ttuu la" N,llsf ~. I i 'Chc Pnl:ns of Dfnnaso,r, n la e,rru VJin" - th:' ftrst is on tt'r drmvint; boards outside ~ Isc~v s doromin nt thr ;`,trasoLt, Fla. Bill Ltin;;, w•ho is building the I .:r. Ilnusc• - has I•~ro;~c'rt•r, is still searrhinn for thc right site, '~ eversecn; instntus- ~ hut r.xpr'cts tu find it su;m. I'Ic already has ~ ~' hi Jas cnnscious ng• received more than 300 inquiries nfter ads ia i tc•n, lt is extrrmely ev n,thlir;tthns Such as 10 Percent and the ~ stj;nffi°a:;i that bis. I„dl•ur:te tuut "Ttte I'irst Alternative Ret!re• i President John Duren says the er•ehange j Indeed, many cens' n' .. ; r.•,~ resuitec f om the firms' mutual respec;. I hea;th-care specialtss Er, uA F 1 , s "They buy thino frorr us, we buy things l riEror in screening de:nces, :.c scrn, co^t. from thAm, and we like the way they do business," Mr. Duren says. "We are eoing to borrow• from each other's strengths," adds Nalco President Ted'foore',. Trte suap also saoes the co7,.panies a hit oJ money. Without the su•cp, Mr. Moortey says, Nalco u'ould hatr: had to hire someone tcfth e;ttrirortrrcentel and sqtety espertise. plain that it doesn't act tur.e:u:,y ca:,,:6••a. The FDA, meanwhile, faces a huge backlog of applications for new medial devtces, which has stretched the averate revtew time to 196 days. The agency says it is working hard to whittle the backlog e! mo;'e than 5,OS-0 applicat:ans. Breast cancer took an esumatnd 46,0N lives in the U.S. last year and vras th. second•bi;gest cancer killer of women, TIiE CIIECiiOPF: Only ,oO,p~J women i Early detectlon is essential in de;eating it, n the U.S. earn more than S75,aJO a year, ; and frequent self-exa.mination is essentian .fo. . But many women don't find about one-eighth ef the numbe: of inen to that er ~ making that much, notes Women's Bureau this easy, and that is where the pad comes 11 Director Karen Nussbaum in Working ~ in. Is lower sSeet clings to the skin vrh;le Ne'her magazine. . . . About a quarter of all ~ the top sheet "floats" on a thin layer of ~ unfair labor practice complaints filed with i liquid silicon, eliminating fric~+o n+on so a i the ''LRB relate to the L'.S. Postai Se^vice• I finger can explore the cortours or an ob,.wt postal board Chairman William Gould IV ; as small as a grain of salt. esi:nates. _ ~ "The thing Lhat amazes me " says t;,c G. S,u.v.T-^ ~ Picrsc T•rn to Pay_ .45, Cn?vyn,; {
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11 4 G•.,/+?i: T'til: `t'"ALl, ti'CIiF'F';1' J!)ufnAL'1'UESUAY, APRIL 12, 19N'i A 11 C", wft.,i~7 c,fT.-st: A. T,on.g FDA-Companv Fight Keeps S ~~f~p~e t'~~3c~ ~o Breast Selr-E~.amindt~on Of~ Market ('nrtRtttti 'd 1•`v"t F}r•s1 Prri)O younl;c^ dL.',Vriilht, "is that thc rc;u•;!rrh spr•ndirt;; on hreast cancerl keeps going np ;tnd 1 can't get this simple $7 product !,snid, Inventive f'nxlucts wott!d have to ! tions. conduct exhaustive clinical testr on ! MeanwhiL', members of the medical women• comparing the number of brear'. ~ community continue to supr)ort the Sensor cancer cases detected through self-e:;am,' Pad. Dr. Withers, the surgeon at Maui nation with and withaut th,, Senso:' Pad. Clinic, savs the pad has twic•e enabled him anto the hands of women who want It." I{!s father, Earl, ,m°r tlmut;ht thc 5en• i Such testy, Mr. 1Vri^ht says, would require t, feel otherwise undetectable lutnps. He sor 1'ad wnuLl hc a bi!: succcss. Nir. ;t hugc samptc a minimum of R2,OO0 ~ scoffs nt thc idc a that using It might give Wrrgla. G:+, !s an eslubitshrd invenlor I women to produce statistically meaning I women n false sense of security, one of the whuse pnaiucts range from a blood-serum I ful results. An FDA spokeswoman disputes i FD.A's main concerns. "There is no ques• fi!ter used in laborttones to nunaeraso! ! that figure. "We want to be as reasonable I tion that the Sensor Pad increases my foaming pumps used by hosp!tal surgeons. ',ts we can," she sa•vs. "The number wiil be 1 tactiic ability," he says. "It makes it 100`:'~ ~tr. Wright in 1956 set uf) Inventivc 1'rod- ~ mucn less than that•" ~ easter." ucts as a suhsidiary of his t;ar! G`:right Co. j Mr. Wright says he has already done ~ Gale Katterhagen, medical director of sole;y to make and r,tzrkc, ti:e 5ensor !'ad. two trials with simulated breast models, the cancer center at St. Joseph Medical fie put his son in c•harl,e. ~ which he claims yield more accurate re- Center in Burbanlc, Calif., says tests he Gaining approval to se!l it in other ' suits. In thc first, women examined the conducted for Inventive Products several countries wasn't a prubiem. Inventive ~ artificial breasts for lumps using both the i y(iars ago indicated that women who used Tn)ducts applied fur n;arketinti authoriza. t~~ ,•.d and their bare hands. In the second, 1 the pad were 22 f more likely to perfornt tion in Camid,: in 1P8;~ and got i: +vithir. 30 I 1 they used both those methods and aisc a m.nnthly breas: exams. "This device is days, Grant 4ti'r;ght says. I:e a!so says thc ' third method - soap and water on their i harmless," Dr. Katterhagen says. pad has been approved in Japan. Singa- hands. The tests showed that the pad Women who use the pad swear by it. ^ K T il d d D re orea ha an ecatur an most Westhanced sensitivity and resulted in in Ms Richardson a 43•year-old ,, en- !.. European countries, although Inventive creased lump detection, Mr. Wright says I resident, doubts that she would have found Products hasn't actively promoted it ~ The FDA rejected his trials as insuffi• I two small lumps without the pad. She bad a abroad. "We've had no problems any- I cient. The prospect ef starting over with I double mastectomy. "It probably saved my v herc irn the werid," he sa)'s. the ]engthy, expen -~ lite•" she says, adding that she gave one to B>xept at home. When the P:rights ' sive tcsL the FDA her 19 yea.* old daughter. scu;-ht ItDA clear<tnce :^- the devic: in I demanded pushed Mr:n' C-orman, a 55•y'ear•old writer in 9ES, ':e ager.cy's the Wrights to '','ashington. is certain the pad saved her initial res, or.se :;as > cha';ge their ~ ~ breast. "I found my cancer before it was i S i h " ~ ' ' posa ve. h L tt;e e says. .e on a mammogram, s v i detectab ` coarse. Because r_ governmentwar.ted t '~_. ~ e;' ne•;e: conc Her surgeon, Katherine Ailey, say, the mor e information. ered the pad ±o be a device may have saved Ms. Gorman's li,e. "Evcr> n medical dc+':c Considering the lethality of breast cancer, Suhmllfed inform: _ . c";ned by Dr. Alley says, "it is just ridiculous" tn [ on, they a_},co fcr ia ;, thct• decidAd keep the pad off the market, ma e," the son re- 19SS to market tne Potential demar u appaars to be huge. ca i!s. Afte; se. erai n p y uct dtrect' to ~; Ps When a Pitsburgh hosptta; oftered on tazl mon:hs, .hc a.eencl hospitals. The X:: k' & _..:.b I Ty' in 1990 to send out free samples, it was : ` ` denied anprnvaa for .' .~;:', ,- ~' . {.ri hs sav they- r., ,r I flooded with .6•000 calls and letters t,'1e pad - h!; indi and their attorney- - f For aL' t`,at, tt e FDA's Dr. Alpert c-:c:3 :;~ conc`-~rn` fi~'red the FDA either would recc rtize is ' be'.ieves that Inventive Products ts large'y mtr,ht be met by - - '-- lack of jurisdiction or take Inventive Prod• exter,sive labeling (%rrznt 1i'n91'' i ucts to court and force the issue. chtin6'"s• Over 15 months, the Wrights sold 250,- The F~A the !abe!mg to state ~ 000 pads to some 2G~ hospitals. But in April that the Sensc, Pad ce::id be sold by ~ 19S9, federal agents raided the company's prescription only. And it wanted all refer- i Decatur plant and a number of hospitals ences to breast cancer de!eted. The label ' and confiscated the pads. was to include the chcnical composition of The action came one day after Earl the device. It a:so was to describe the ~Wright was narrted a finalist in the Intel!ec- lp-i.n,ch-diameter pad's "s:aceptibility to I tual Property Owners Foundation's inven- heat, <oap, "or;r:a!ie. alcohol and t tor-of-the•vear contest for his "touch• othcr :nechaaica; xgents." i enhancing decice. \L'r:hht s:;;s ;tC !; , ne0:;ielt' tiet ie ' ccn.plying with the renuests. But I Grant Wright challenged the FDA's about threP months later, he says, the FDA ( claim to jurisdiction over the oad. But ir, ^ably notified h;m that it wouidn't 1°90• a U.S. district court in Dam~ille, Ill., nezp'' ~ t•uled for the FDA. Mr. Wright appealed, reconsider approving the product. Instead, and two veats later an apoellate court in he was to!d. Inventh'e Products would have Chicagc upheld the ruling. At that point, to go through a :crious "p-emarket imentive Products told the FDA it had approv;;!" process :`or n-.: medicai de ceased marketing the pad. rTtus process is meant tc keen ne'', ! But Mr. Wright didn't give up. In March mostly r echno!o~ instruments o:`f ~ 1992• he filed an ethics complaint with the g~•-' ! FDA's inte,grity office against some the maricet until they can be adequately I agency officials after learning that they tested for safetv. Few people wnttid d!s- of had met with a minority shareholder o, the ag ee tha! :he 713'„ should cet convincing I company without his knowledge. After he evidence that invasive devices are safe. filed the complaint, he says, the FDA ~.cre than ?00 people died in the 19SOs i turnedh^stile.AtameetinginWa,shington when their 5;0: k-Shilec ;ear: valves :`rac• i Qa ~; in August 1.~2 to discuss req rements ior ':red. for instar.ce. But J:r. {'lrtght ar,:.ies premarket appreva:, he says, an FDA .. the : ensr Pad rnses no d,rect r~S}: to 1 ta.aT.er - flanked bl: 10 other agency o:`fi- users. cials and a Justice Department la ,~er- The,-FDA' tesponds •Shat,.the +?idfreet I "told us we'd never get our product to tisk -- l~ncettxtskum ~abtHd ~o += p market." !^de~ec!~d-.s pN.entia!!v !e'haL An agency spokeswoman says it is Thc a,en^y's Dr. Alpert says the fact i doubtful such a remar'rk was made. "We that a device is simple doesn't necessar.ly I havP gqne out of our way te show the m-r it ; r 4u; c: r, thing depends on tiL'r i;';ts how in get thcir pr•oduct marketed. n~!*~it r. ' SI:, dis^;isses cndo!se curh a rnt;itn!'e; dc csn'; mri!c scnsr," she ;. h. I responsible for the delays it has encotln- tered. "There are iots of difterenttnds of trials they could do to show this Is effec- tive," she says. "It doesn't have to be years and years." The elder Mr. Wright has managed to commercialize the Sensor Pad's antifric- tion technology for a much smaller mar- ket. He has built the Slipp, a nylon and plastic sheet used in hospitals to transfer patients from a gurney to a bed About 500 have beer. sold. ! But his son spends much of his time in his nearly empty headquarters explaining I to doctors why he can't send them samples ( of the Sensor Pad. Last year, he laid off his own brother, reducing his work force to irimself and his secretary from a peak of 28 six years ago. "We're at the point of surrender," he says. I Northwest Illinois Pact With FirstRc To Alerge !?,iv lt1~ n~n' , J.,1'nneLSfc(f Northwest utm,ris Bancorp hYntHock Bancorp Inc., both c agrced definitively tomerge into traded company to be called Tc.+c corp Inc. The agreetnent, which tho ; called a"merger of equals," w; bank holding company with nearly $900 million. Both o shareholders are to get shares i Bancorp equivalent the number they held before the merger. TI market value of stoek in both cor $93 million. In Nasdaq Stock M: ing, Northwest Illinois's shares 25 cents at 519.25, while FirstRoc closed unchar,ged at 51.8. Northwest IllincoFs, based ir: has assets of S417 million and e million, or 51.65 a share, last y Rock, Rockford, has assets of lion and earned 54.2 million ir year ended June 30. FirstRock v in October 1992. Dan Heine, president and cl tive officer of Northwest Illino~s as chairman and chief execuh+' the new holding company, w'h: Inp assia, president and ch:e' c FirstRock, wili te pres:dcnt operating off!cer. mh^ m^_r; ^-, subject to m~ shareu^,i,r in the fourth quarter. Separately, Northwest Illir signed a definitive agreemer.t Tri•State Bank & Trust Co. of ` que, Ill. Terms wemn't dise:~sP tlas asses nf S44 t^itt;nl 9•h' Lc r expected to be comptutg in A,; I First Union Unit's:'1cqu: JACKSONVILL.E, Fla. - F National Bank of Florida ac insnred deposits and some cas Jacksonville Federal Savings from the Resolution Trust Corp. 000. The purchase includes r: insured deposits and S30 mil: asses, First Union said. First Union National Bank r^irst Union Corp. Fitst Union National Bank sonville Federal Savings will c, tions "within a few months, seven branches are converte Union National Bank branches
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i C • ;? ::; ~ I'.:.,• s".cr ir.vrnt! r Prnd ! mucn ;ess t;tan that," nrt~ Wi ;:,i;i;suhi:n' of lus Ii;u' 1'i r:ul:t ('n. I `4r. Wright su}•s he has a!ready done s,!cl b,'•'•'t.^ a.r.? marl:c•! thc Svnsr•.r 1'ud. i two trials with stmu!ated breast tnndels•, lIc ,v; h;ti yun in chi;rke•. ! which h^ claims yield more accurate re• Ctata,-i^ appr, vnl tn .cli it in other ' sults. Irt thc• fit•st, women examtned the t•nnntr!t•~ %casn't tt prnhlrmn. Inve;,tive artificial breasts for lumps using both the t'IVducts ap! licd for marketln,q au;huriz;t pt;d and their bare hands. In the second, :ion in Canada in Ll~a anr+ ,m' it v: ithin 3n I the} uscd both those methods and also a dnys, Gr,:nt Wri;,•ht says. ite alsu says thr I third mrthud - soap and water on their pard has been approved in ,)aptin, Sngit-' hands. The tests showed that the pad pore, Korea. Thniland and most West , enhnnced sensitivity and resulted in in- r.uropean countries, although Inventive creased lump detection, Mr, Wright says, Pnxlucts t,;tsn't tx•tively promoted it ~ The FDA rejected his trials as Insuffi• abrn d. "It'e'vc• had no prolllerns nny cieni. The prospect of starting over with j doublemastectomy. "Itprobablysavedmy where in the wtirid," h,• ,ays. I the lengthy, expen life," she says• adding that she gave one to i?xccpl nt hante. When tite 41'rights I sive tests the FDA sought FDA c!earnnce for the device in ; demanded pushed tV95, thc a{;ency's ! the Wrigitts to initial res;xmse wis % y I change their ~'stttvc. Stili, ti!e course. Because guvernment wanir.l .`. :~. the" never amsid• tnore informntiun. ered the pad to be a "Evcry ti:nr' medical dcv!c, a.' }''}g subrntttrcd tnfurtna If• .;Z,, aeCnc,i by ' , Cion, they nsked for ~' 1, '!aw, they decided in more," the son re- ', 19SS to market the G.ils, After several product directly to months, the agenc;; r, hospitals. The denied approval for :_:'~ Wrights say they- the pad - but indi• t'to ~;. ~1:; ~ j and their attorney- Earl L:';ipkt ~ ~ cated its concerns ~ figured the FDA either wotild recognize its might be met by ~ lack of jurisdiction or take Inventive Prod- e;ter.sive labeling Gran! Wri~hf ucts to court and force the issue. changes. Over 15 months, the Wrighis sold 250,= Thc: FDA wanted the labe!ing to ,siate ~ 000 pads to some 200 hospitals. But ir• April that the Scnsc Pad could be sold by 19S9, federal agents raided the comoany's prescription on!}•. And it wanted all refer- I Decatur plant and a number of hospitals ences to breast car:cer deleted. The label ~ and confiscated the pads. was to include the chemical composit+.on of The action came one day after Ear! the device. It also was to describe the Wright was na^ted a finalist in the Intellec• 10•inch-diameter pad's "susceptibility to i tuai Property Owners Foundation's ir.ven• heat, sun!i:ht, soap. Irormatin, alcohol and tor-of•the-year contest for his "touch- c:her mechanical agents." ~ enhancing device." %Sr. ','Iri!,'ht says he imr:.ediately set i Grant challenged ci m, !;; im, th the requests. Gut «'r ght chenged the FDA's about three months !ater, he sa s, the FD : j cia:m to jt risdlction over the pad. But in• y 1590. a U.S. district court in Danvilie, IP•, inexpl!cabl~: notified him that i; wouidn't I ed, ru;ed 'or the FDA. "fr. Wr.gh: appea: court in reconsider approvzn~ the product. Lstead, j ,i^ was told, irventiv^ Pro,jucts would have ' and nvc ; ears later an appella.e to t^rou ~ laborlous " remarket ~ Cricagc upheld the ruiin;. At that point, gc~ q~' a p snven';ve Products told the FDA it had appro•:;±! process for ner medtca: de- i vices. . g g p. This process is meant `,~ kee,, ^eu' ! 1992 h fi: d thi m laint with the an e p , e e s co mestlc hi„h-techno!og<' instruments off i FDA's integrity office against some .he market until the}• can be adequately i agency officiais after learning that they lested for safety. Few people would dis had met with a minority shareholder of the agree that the FDA stteuld get convincing + company without his knowledge. After he evidence that invas:ve devices are safe. I filed the com laint, he sa sthe FDA More tha.n 201 people died in the 19SOs ~ turned hostile. At a meetin in Washington when their Rjor::-Shii?y i~eart va(ves frac- in Augus' 1992 to discuss requirements for tured. for instance. But Vrri~ht argues I premarke; approval, he says. an FDA that the Sensor Pad ,roses no direct risk to ~ la•wer - flanked by 10 other agency offi• users. cials and a Justice De artment lav ei- risk - The that FDA a responds cancerous L a; lump the indirect told us we'd never get our product to wouid go undetected-is petentially lethal- An market." agency spokeswoman says it is The agency's Dr. Alpert says the fact doubtful such a remark was made. "We that a devi ce is simple doesn't necessarily have gon2 out of our way to show the mean it i> benign: ever•thing depends on `~; rights how to get their product marketed. its "intended use." She dismisses endorse- Such a comment doesn't make sense," she ments from doctors and patients - which, ~ says. she says, man;: device ma}:ers trot out-as Mr. 4~'right promptly fired off lettera of anecdotal evtdence ti~at is insuf[icient te complaint about the meeting to the FDA make z scientific case. "Re~rting dosn't t and to Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, who do it-data does," she says. is, tutow^t for flailing the FDA for its In 1992, only 12 medical devices were missteps. More letters flew back and forth. given FDA premarket approvai, including ~~A integrity officer wrote that the heart pacemakers, lenses that are im- ~t, was acting in good faith. Mr. Wright planted into the eye after cataract surgery responded by demanding an investigation and devices for smashing kidney stones• 0: of the FDA lauyer who attended the Au the simple, noninvas:ve pad. "I've never , gust meeting. A couple of days later, his seen a product like this held off the mar I ket," sa;:s John Isaacs, a s:; necologist in ' Washing on lawyer sent a seven-page let nvanston, Iil.. who is the author of a I ter to a Dingell staffer, accusing the FDA teatboci•: or, breast disease. of "hounding" Inventive Products. But the FDA sa}'s th.^ Sensor Pad needs ~ Four months later, the Wrights re- to be scrutinized because it isn't "substan- ' ceived notice from an FDA compliance tially equi~ralent" to a product already on I officer that the agency was investigating the mar ket, a legal r equirement for quick I them for possible violations of federal law approval of simple devices. The ~i'rights for selling the pad in 1990-91. hir, Grant a,ue that tite pad is substantially equiva- ~ says he has received no word about the !cnt to soap and water, a mixture the ' investigat!on since an FDA administrative medica! commun!h• P,as leng rec•om hearing in Chicago last June. But, he says, rm; n:' In reauco fr!rtlrrn at hren;! srif•ee , he has gotten the messaRe: "If you c k ti th d mar e r•g . cease e pa ~ But Mr ht didn't ive u In'darch Wri t l,'•....,. 1 :,rl It:cre;:-5 I;II . . .. I .. .. . ' :i tii"lr:' •. ~ rl • . .i ... `rl , . - casicr." I shareholders are to get Gaie Kattcrtwgen, medicrtl director of ~ Bancorp equivalent the nur,'' the cttncer center at St. toseph Medical I they held before the meT•z-. Centrr in Burbank, C:alif., says tests he ! market value of stock in txit:; c. c•onduc•trrd for Inventive Products several f Sn;t million• In Nasdaq Sti ck t.t yoars a!;n indicated that women who used Ing, Northwest Illinois's shar^ the pad wet•e 2L"%, more likely to perform ,2, cents at 119.225, while F!rstRr monthly breast exams. "This device is closed unchanged at $18. harmless," Dr. Katterhagcn says. Northwest Illinois, based i Wotnen who use the pad swear by it. has assets of S417 million and hts. Richardson, a 43-year-old Decatur million, or Si•65 a share, last } resident, doubts that she would have found Rock, Rockford, has assets o twosmalllumpswithoutthepad.Shebada lion and earned 54.2 million i, tter 19-year-old daughter. Mary Gorman, a 55•year•old writer In is certain the pad saved her W shin tnn , a g breast. "I found my cancer before it was detectable on a mammogram," she says. Her surgeon, Katherine Alley, says the device may have saved IN`,s. Gor•man's i,;e• Considering the lethality of breast cancer, f>r. Alley says, "it Is just ridicu!ous" t, keep the pad off the market. Potential demarid appaars to be huge, When a Pittsburgh hospital offered on local TV in 1990 to send out free samples, it was flooded with 36,000 calls and letters. For all that, the FDA's Dr. Alpert believes that Inventive Products is largely responsible for the delays it has encotln- tered. "There are lots of different 11tinds of trials they could do to show this is effec- tive." she says. "It doesn't have to be years and years." The elder Mr. Wright has managed to commercialize the Sensor Pad's antifric- t;on technology for a much smaller mar- ket. He has built the Slipp, a nylon and plastic sheet used in hospitals to transfer patients from a gurney to a bed. About 500 have beer. sold. But his son spends much of his time in his nearly empty headquarters explaining to doctors why he can't send them samples of the Sensor Pad. Last year, he laid off his own brother, reducin, his work force to iiimsel,` and his secretary from a peak of 28 year ended June 30. FtrstRock I, in October 1992. Dan Iteine, president and c tive officer of Northwest Illinois as chairmnn and chief executi• the new holding company, whi Ingrassia, president and chief •. FirstRock, will ~e presider•' operatin„ offier. 'rna mer;•^,, subject to te!: shsrcuob,. . , rn,,zis, is 'n ' ' in the fourth quarter. Separately, Northwest IltiT signed a definitive agreemen Tri•State Bank & Trust Co. of que, Iil. Terms weren't disc'.os' has assets of S4Y millinn. Tha i, expected to be cumptrAp? in A First Union Unit's Acqu JACKSONVILLF., Fla. - National Bank of Florida a insured deposits and some ca Jackscnvllle Federal Sav',ngs from the Resolution Trust Cor; 000. The purchase includes 97 insured deposits and s.30 mit assets, First Union said. First Union National Banl First Union Corp. First Union National Ban sonvil!e Federal Savings u^il tions "within a few month,~ six years ago. "Vre're at the point of ' seven branches are convert surrender," he says. I Union National Bank branche 00 ~ ~

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