Senate panel clears FDA nominee
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President George W. Bush's pick to  lead the Food and Drug Administration won support from a U.S.  Senate panel on Wednesday, but still faces opposition from two  Republican senators blocking a full vote on the nomination.
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Sam Bodman, President Bush's pick to be the next U.S. energy secretary, was approved on Wednesday by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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FDA advisory panel gives the nod to its heart drug.
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12/2/04- The FDA reviewers could decide if a drug dubbed the &quot;female Viagra&quot; should be recommended for government approval.
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A Senate committee unanimously approved President George W. Bush's choice for defense secretary on Tuesday after he told the panel the United States was not winning in Iraq and needed a new approach to end the carnage and avert a possible region-wide war.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today cleared for marketing the first laboratory test system that will allow physicians to consider unique genetic information from patients in selecting medications and doses of medications for a wide variety of
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Makers of the arthritis drug Vioxx and the FDA are the subject of Senate scrutiny today...and an Iowa Senator is asking the tough questions.
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A prominent drug-safety expert has been removed from a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel meeting on Vioxx and other arthritis drugs because of comments he made this week suggesting that the entire class of medications may be unsafe.
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An FDA advisory panel votes favorably on Adolor's lead drug.
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WASHINGTON - A Senate panel on Tuesday approved the nomination of Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., to head the CIA, overcoming Democrats' objections that Goss was too political for the job...
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WASHINGTON - Congress is looking into whether the Food and Drug Administration shirked its duty by ignoring safety concerns about Vioxx raised by its own reviewers and outside scientists.
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A panel of experts will meet on Tuesday to consider whether the Food and Drug Administration should approve Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine, which could become the first such product cleared for the U.S. market.
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A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday  approved the nomination of John Negroponte, the outgoing  director of national intelligence, to become deputy secretary  of state, sending the nomination to the full Senate.
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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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A prominent drug safety expert has been removed from a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel meeting on Vioxx and other arthritis drugs because of comments he made this week suggesting
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The acting head of the Food and Drug Administration told his confirmation hearing Tuesday that his decision to revive consideration of over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill was based on science, not politics.
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A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled that the  patent on the multibillion-dollar blood clot-preventing drug  Plavix is valid, handing a major victory to Bristol-Myers  Squibb Co.  and Sanofi-Aventis .