Mefloquine during the study. Mefloquine was the first Public-Private Venture (PPV) between the US Department of Defense and a pharmaceutical company. WRAIR transferred all its phase I and phase II clinical trial data to Hoffman LaRoche and Smith Kline. FDA approval as a treatment for malaria was swift. Most notably, phase III safety and tolerability trials were skipped. The drug was first approved and sold on a commercial basis in Switzerland in 1985. However, mefloquine was not approved by the FDA for prophylactic use until 1989. This approval was based primarily on compliance, while safety and tolerability were overlooked. Because of
The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be" is the sixth episode of the twenty-ninth season of the animated television series "The Simpsons", and the 624th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on November 12, 2017. The track of the old Springfield Monorail (from "Marge vs. the Monorail") is converted into a "sky park". At the official opening, Mayor Quimby turns on the electricity which causes the monorail car to activate and destroy the boardwalk, running down Sebastian Cobb