1.  Analysts were doubtful that Sunrise Technologies would survive unless it gets its laser treatment approved by the FDA.

2.  Before today, the injection treatment was approved only for a six-month period.

3.  AIDS groups accused the agency of taking years to approve new treatments, in effect letting people die rather than take risky but potentially life-saving experimental drugs.

4.  In June, a new treatment was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, a combination therapy that paired interferon with the antiviral drug ribavirin.

5.  Keith Kouba, a lobbyist for the Texas Association of Business and Chambers of Commerce, also suspects that Texas insurers have become more liberal in approving treatment.

6.  The new treatment was approved for prescription sale late last month by the US Food and Drug Administration, and it began to show up in pharmacies soon after.

7.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is likely to approve irradiation treatment for beef in a few weeks, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said.

8.  All the treatments are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.

9.  Elsewhere, California approved drug treatment instead of jail for non-violent, minor drug offenders.

10.  The Food and Drug Administration approved a treatment for people whose heart arteries begin narrowing again after they have been treated to widen the blood vessels.