Drug safety legislation clears U.S. House panel
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A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted on Thursday to give the Food and Drug Administration more power to monitor the side effects of medicines after they reach the market.
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FDA advisory panel gives the nod to its heart drug.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ignored hundreds of proposals that could have improved the safety of food imported into the United States, former FDA officials told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration would gain authority to ensure the safety of prescription drugs, including the power to mandate label changes that warn of newly emerging risks, under a bill passed yesterday by the House.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration said on Tuesday it was creating an independent  drug safety board after the agency's monitoring of drugs  already in the marketplace was criticized amid the withdrawal  of arthritis drug Vioxx.
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ROCKVILLE, Md.  - The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration said on Tuesday it was creating a new drug  safety board to improve the monitoring of medicines already in  the marketplace, a response to charges the agency has failed to  protect the public from dangerous side effects.
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to give the Food and Drug Administration more power over drugmakers as part of an effort to better protect the public from dangerous medicines.
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Congress is looking into whether the Food and Drug Administration ignored safety concerns about the drug raised by its own reviewers and outside scientists.
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The House of Representatives voted  on Wednesday to revise how the federal government reviews  foreign takeovers of U.S. companies, sending the legislation to  the White House.
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Defying a veto threat from President George W. Bush, a U.S. Senate panel overwhelmingly approved a bill on Thursday to finance expansion of a children's health care program with an increase in tobacco taxes.
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The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved new legislation drafted after the mid-April shooting rampage at Virginia Tech University that tightens background checks for potential gun owners.
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The House of Representatives on  Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a business-backed bill that  would tighten rules for federal review of foreign takeovers of  U.S. companies without discouraging such investments.
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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 House committee yesterday approved patent-reform legislation the technology sector has sought for years as a way to reduce the number of costly patent-infringement lawsuits.
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The House of Representatives on   Wednesday passed a bill backed by President George W. Bush   setting rules for interrogating and trying foreign terrorism   suspects, dismissing warnings from Democrats that courts will   reject the plan.
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ROCKVILLE, Md.  - The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the  way it monitors safety risks associated with medicines already  on the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller  Vioxx.
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A Senate committee brushed aside threats of a veto from President Bush in overwhelmingly approving on Thursday a $35 billion expansion of a children's health insurance program.