Today, drug companies pay a fee to the FDA for review of new drugs. This has been the case since 1992 with the passage of the Prescription Drug User
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If you've ever wondered why we so rarely hear of drug trials going awry in the United States, it is because we "offshore" the drug trials to developi
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People are upset. Their little Fidos and Fluffies are being poisoned by a chemical additive in pet food imported from China. And now it's been found
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The veil over the Bush administration's war on women's reproductive health was pulled back recently by the president's own former surgeon general.
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In his dissent on a recent free-speech case, Justice John Paul Stevens wades into the war-on-drugs debate, comparing modern-day pot smokers with "otherwise law-abiding patrons of bootleggers and speakeasies," during the prohibition era.Stevens, who t
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Perhaps the saddest dead futures are the ones whose end may mean the end of humanity. I suppose one could argue that the death of an environmentally conscious future is in that category.
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Sen. David Vitter doesn't seem troubled by his recent exposure as a onetime client of the so-called DC Madam. His brash return to the Capitol is apparently rankling lawmakers of both parties. After lecturing GOP senators about "rebranding" the party
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Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), appearing on Face The Nation today, slammed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for not "telling the truth" during testimony before Congressional committees investigating the firing of nine US attorneys, adding that Presid
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A pair of Democratic senators are criticizing President George W. Bush's pick to head the US Agency for International Development over what they see as her failure to promote racial and ethnic diversity in the US Foreign Service. Senators Robert Mene
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