THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. JULY 12, 1978 Page 5 the nation '^DA cant outlaw laetrile; ourt orders guidelines l* mvej. ’ presii United Press International ENVER — The U.S. Food ! l t ' ! Drug Administration has no dority to prohibit doomed i " er patients from using the 1 ^ roversial drug Laetrile, a u ral appellate court has said. 1 We lOtli U.S. Circuit Court of ‘‘ n ' cals has ruled the terms nangt^ty” and “effectiveness,” as 1 in the Food, Drug and , ' ,! netie Act under which Laet- ‘ " v '‘l ‘was banned, do not really 1 111 W to cancer patients certified .mil terminally ill. The court or- : ; ?d the FDA to set up elines permitting laetrile use j hose certified as terminally hat can ‘generally recog- d’ as ‘safe and ‘effective’ n as| to such persons who are (tally stricken with a disease jwhiph there is no known ♦?” the appellate court asked. 'K lb Under this record Laetrile is dfective as anything else. dlOrr.it can ‘effective mean if the d thew I Mtlf person, by all prevaling stan dards, tmd under the position the commision takes, is going to die of cancer regardless of what may be done.” The appellate court’s decision stemmed from a ruling by an Ok lahoma City federal district judge who declared invalid the FDA ban on Laetrile which is ex tracted from apricot pits. The appellate court did not address itself to the constitu tional issues raised by U.S. Dis trict Judge Luther Bohanan but said an injunction issued last year by the judge against the FDA should remain in force. The 10th Circuit Court, how ever, said the injunction would be limited only to permit pro curement of intravenous injec tions administered by a licensed medical practitioner to a person certified by a physician to be a terminally ill cancer patient. The court said the FDA should issue “with all due dispatch” regulations for guidelines to be used by terminal cancer patients wanting to use Laetrile injec tions.” The appellate court took the case, a class action suit filed more than two years ago on behalf of all terminally ill cancer patients, under advisement last January. The 10th Circuit Court ini tially heard the case in June 1976 and remanded it back to Boha nan with instructions the FDA must hold a hearing on whether or not laetrile was a new drug within the agency’s power to regulate. The hearing resulted in a find ing that Laetrile was a new drug, thus giving the FDA the author ity to certify as safe and effective before it can be sold for human Bohanan, on an appeal, later upheld his first decision that Laetrile had been used in cancer treatment for at least 25 years and therefore was exempt from FDA certification. Space agency battling to save Skylab station United Press International HOUSTON — Flight controllers hoping to save Skylab from an un scheduled landing Tuesday inten sified efforts to keep the 84-ton space station in a life-prolonging Earth orbit. NASA Skylab Coordinator Robert O.Aller Tuesday flew from Washington to Johnson Space Center and spokesman Charles Redmond said, “You can tell we’ve got a problem if he’s here.” “It looks as if we’re going to have to put more men and more effort into this if we want to do it right,” JSC Deputy Flight Director Gene Kranz said. “It’s a manned vehicle without men and that makes it more difficult to fly.” Sunday Skylab slipped out of a desired life-prolonging orbital at titude for the third time since June 11, when it was placed in a flight profile designed to mimimize the drag of the outer fringes of the at mosphere. Scientists want to prolong Skylab s current 240-mile-high orbit until a space shuttle crew can use a remote control rocket to shift the $294 million craft into safer orbit or send it crashing into an unpopulated area of the Earth. Skylab’s orbit has deteriorated more rapidly than expected since the last crew left it in 1974. Officials say unusual solar activity may be partially responsible. Another problem is the delay of the space shuttle program. The first orbital flight test of the shuttle has been delayed twice, from late this year until summer 1979. Without the reorientation of Skylab June 11, it appeared the craft might re-enter the Earth’s atmos phere, disintegrate and scatter de bris on populated areas before a Shuttle crew can reach it. NASA, aiming for a minimal cost in the effort, has had two shifts of 12 flight controllers working during the 16 hours each day that Skylab is in contact with ground tracking sta tions. If you have calculator problems... 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