House panel OKs FDA bill without drug ad ban
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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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The US House of Representatives backs a bill which would ban the use of harsh interrogation techniques by the CIA.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday defied the White House and voted to ease limits on U.S. student travel and trade with Cuba, but defeated a measure that would have lifted all economic sanctions.
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration yesterday gained broad new powers to ensure the safety of prescription drugs used by millions of Americans under a bill signed by President Bush.
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The US House of Representatives voted to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption, which could bring an end to a 40-billion dollar industry exporting horse meat to Europe and Japan.
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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans tentatively agreed yesterday to prohibit customs agents from seizing prescription drugs that Americans buy in Canada .
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The US House of Representatives moved to prohibit US funding of the UN Human Rights Council, derided by one member as a &quot;poisonous talk shop,&quot; as part of a mammoth funding bill passed early Friday.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  ignored a White House veto threat and voted on Thursday to  allow government donations of contraceptives to family planning  groups outside the United States even though they engage in  abortion activities.
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The House on Thursday approved an intelligence bill that bans the CIA from using waterboarding, mock executions and other harsh interrogation methods
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The House of Representatives passed   a bill on Thursday that would provide congressional   authorization for President George W. Bush's warrantless   domestic spying program but subject it to new rules.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is preventing an agency scientist from presenting the largest, most up-to-date study of popular painkillers like Bextra, Celebrex and Vioxx during an FDA meeting next week on heart risks posed by the drugs, a US senator charged.
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WASHINGTON  - The US Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) (FDA (news - web sites)) banned the import of two male sexual stimulant diet supplements sold on the Internet, saying they contain an undeclared prescription drug ingredient.
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Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc.   won U.S. approval to sell its Plan B "morning-after"  contraceptive without a prescription to women 18 and older, the  company said on Thursday.
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The Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing pharmaceutical makers to provide doctors with medical journal studies of unapproved uses for drugs, a move critics say would undermine long-standing restrictions on marketing medicines for "off-label" purposes.
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The Democratic-led House of Representatives on Wednesday defied a White House veto threat and voted to protect millions of Americans by outlawing workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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The U.S. House of Representatives ignored a White House veto threat and voted on Thursday to allow government donations of contraceptives to family planning groups outside the United States even though they engage in abortion activities.
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A House subcommittee approved legislation yesterday that would give US regulators new power to oversee drug safety by ordering changes on pharmaceutical labels and forcing drug makers to conduct studies of products after they're on the market.