Most identifiersin the Java(TM) programming environment have either class or local scope. Instance and classvariables and methods have class scope; they can be used outside the class and its subclasses onlyby prefixing them with an instance of the class or (for class variables and methods) with the classname.
Acyclovir was the first successful antiviral agent in the world. It was originally synthesized in 1974 by Howard Schaeffer at Wellcome Research Laboratories (now GlaxoSmithKline).
FDA's Approval of the First Oral Contraceptive, Enovid. This article originally appeared in the Making History column of the July-August 1998 issue of Update, the bimonthly publication of the Food and Drug Law Institute. Suzanne White Junod, Ph.D. FDA Historian.