Subject: What's News -- World-Wide
Date: Published: 10/20/88 26 lines
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    What's News -- 
    World-Wide

    THE FDA ADOPTED a policy to hasten treatments for diseases
 such as AIDS. 
    Under the policy, the agency will attempt to shorten
 significantly the human-testing stage for drugs to treat
 life-threatening or debilitating diseases.  Such testing can
 last three to seven years, after months of laboratory
 testing.  The FDA announcement came eight days after
 demonstrators temporarily closed the agency's headquarters in
 Maryland to demand earlier approval of AIDS drugs.
    Homosexual-rights groups said the timing of the
 announcement raised questions about whether the move may be
 related to the presidential election.
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