ADELPHI, Md. - Government experts say prescription drugs like Vicodin and Percocet that combine a popular painkiller with stronger narcotics should be eliminated because of their role in deadly overdoses. A Food and Drug Administration panel on Tuesday voted 20-17 that ...Read More
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. House committee advanced aproposal to remove a three-decade ban on congressional audits ofFederal Reserve interest-rate decisions, a measure backed by alawmaker who has called for the abolition of the central bank. The House Financial Services ...Read More
BETHESDA, Maryland, Nov 19 (Reuters) - More safety datawould be needed before a new type of influenza vaccine made ininsect cells should get approval, federal advisers said onThursday. A divided committee advising the U.S. Food and DrugAdministration said the new Protein ...Read More
Federal health experts say an inhaler drug from a German drugmaker works well enough to carry bolder claims about reducing coughing, wheezing and other respiratory problems. The Food and Drug Administration's panel of lung specialists voted 11-1 to allow Boehringer Ingelheim ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- Federal health experts on Thursday brushed off lingering safety questions about a popular inhaler drug and suggested it carry bolder benefit claims. The Food and Drug Administration's panel of lung specialists voted 11-1 in favor of new labeling about ...Read More
* FDA panel: Pfizer's Prevnar 13 safe, effective * FDA decision due by late December * Pfizer shares gain 1.4 pct (Recasts; Adds panel member quotes) BETHESDA, Md., Nov 18 (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) won akey endorsement on Wednesday for a new ...Read More
BETHESDA, Md. — Federal health experts said Wednesday an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine is safe and effective for infants and toddlers, despite company studies that failed to meet certain goals.
The Food and Drug Administration's panel of vaccine ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- A federal advisory panel will meet next week to consider a new type of influenza vaccine that's made without relying on decades-old technology that employs millions of chicken eggs to grow viruses used for flu shots. Protein Sciences Corp. ...Read More
WASHINGTON — Defying the Obama administration, the House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to remove from the USA Patriot Act a tool for tracking non-U.S. citizens in anti-terrorism investigations. The committee, dominated by Democratic liberals, also voted to amend the anti-terrorism law ...Read More
Federal health advisers on Wednesday rejected an implant from Zimmer Holdings saying it's unclear how effective or safe the device would be for treating a painful spinal condition. The Food and Drug Administration's panel of outside experts voted 5-1 that Zimmer's ...Read More
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Federal health officials say there are lingering questions about whether an implant from Zimmer Holdings Inc. is safe and effective for treating a painful spinal condition. The Food and Drug Administration's panel of outside experts says Zimmer studies ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- The House Financial Services Committee voted Wednesday to give federal regulators more power and money to police major players in the stock market, four months after Bernard Madoff was sentenced for the biggest investment scam in history. The 41-28 ...Read More
WASHINGTON -A House committee on Wednesday voted to set new rules for investment rating agencies, which lawmakers say misled investors by giving high marks to risky securities tied to subprime mortgages. The proposal, approved by a 49-14 vote, is the House ...Read More
WASHINGTON—The House Financial Services Committee has voted to speed up the enactment of tough new credit card rules from mid-February of next year to Dec. 1 of this year. President Barack Obama has already signed legislation that would impose strict new ...Read More
A second kind of vaccine against cervical cancer may be added to the recommended list for girls and young women after a federal advisory panel voted Wednesday to support it. The panel gave a limited endorsement to GlaxoSmithKline's vaccine, Cervarix, which ...Read More
WASHINGTON - A House panel voted yesterday to regulate for the first time privately traded derivatives, the kind of exotic financial instruments that helped bring down Lehman Brothers and nearly toppled American International Group.
The 43-to-26 vote by the House Financial ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Senate panel voted on Thursday to bar drug companies from paying generic drugmakers to delay bringing their cheaper medicines to market. The Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 7 to forbid such deals. Lawmakers are seeking to ban the ...Read More
WASHINGTON -A U.S. House of Representatives' panel voted Thursday to regulate for the first time privately traded derivatives, the kind of exotic financial instruments that helped bring down Lehman Brothers and nearly toppled American International Group. The 43-26 vote by the ...Read More
WASHINGTON—A House panel voted Thursday to regulate for the first time privately traded derivatives, the kind of exotic financial instruments that helped bring down Lehman Brothers and nearly toppled American International Group. The 43-26 vote by the House Financial Services Committee, ...Read More
LANSING, Mich. -- Dueling has become less common over the past couple centuries. Likewise, the concern about prizefights. Both those activities, along with taking a women against her will and forcing her to marry, would no longer be specifically outlawed in ...Read More
LANSING ? A panel of lawmakers has voted to scrub archaic crimes from Michigan's penal code. Legislation approved today would no longer make it a crime to engage in a duel with an enemy, to be in a prize fight or ...Read More
