Lawmakers on Thursday moved to block the Food and Drug Administration from closing more than half its field laboratories, acting out of concern the pl
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Lawmakers on Thursday moved to block the Food and Drug Administration from closing more than half its field laboratories, acting out of concern the plan could weaken the safety of the nation's food supply.
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Legislation meant to improve the government's drug safety oversight cleared a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday without a controversial limit on television advertisements.
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r. David Graham, a Food and Drug Administration drug safety reviewer, told a Senate committee last week that the agency had left the nation &quot;virtually defenseless&quot; against dangerous medications
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Drug safety measures pending in the House of Representatives may burden regulators without protecting patients from dangerous medicines, a senior Food and Drug Administration official told lawmakers on Tuesday.
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A US lawmaker called on Wednesday for a probe of reports that Food and Drug Administration officials tried to discredit a veteran scientist who testified over Merck &amp; Co.
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By David Goldstein, McClatchy Washington Bureau  Sep. 16--WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency intends to  close labs, cut its cadre of upper-level scientists and reduce regulatory  oversight, according to an internal agency document.
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In a major setback for public health  groups, congressional tax negotiators on Tuesday blocked a plan  to allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco,  but a $10 billion package for tobacco farmers was set to be  approved.
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A top Republican lawmaker on  Thursday charged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with  hindering a congressional investigation into whether the agency  suppressed a possible link between antidepressant use and  suicidal behavior in youth.
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An end-of-the-session food fight over a milk support program erupted Friday in Congress, stalling action for hours on legislation ranging from corporate tax cuts to hurricane and drought relief and preventing lawmakers from adjourning to hit the campaign trail.
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WASHINGTON - In a sharp rebuke of a new administration policy, the House moved Thursday to block the Labor Department from carrying out overtime rules that critics argued could deprive millions of workers of their overtime pay.    The 223-193 vote in favor of blocking the rules defied the White House...
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The Food and Drug Administration over the past decade has shifted its budget away from monitoring the safety of drugs on the market, focusing more and more on approving new medicines.
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The US Food and Drug Administration is supposed to be a vigilant industry watchdog that prevents harmful products from reaching America&#39;s kitchen tables and medicine chests.
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An expert with the Food Drug Administration has accused the agency in Congress of having pressed him to withhold results of a study showing potential dangers of the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx.
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A top Republican lawmaker raised concerns about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ability to monitor drug safety following Merck & Co. Inc.'s recall of its arthritis drug last week, according to a letter made public on Tuesday.
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The U.S. Congress began investigating on Wednesday whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration overlooked problems at a British plant that led to the withdrawal of half the country's flu vaccine supply.
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In a major setback for public health groups, congressional tax negotiators on Tuesday blocked a plan to allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco, but a &#36;10 billion package for tobacco farmers was set to be approved.
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U.S. lawmakers criticized the Food and Drug Administration's monitoring of the risks of a Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic and some other prescription drugs on Tuesday.