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Avandia Could Increase Risk of Heart Attack, New Study

... House members asked the FDA to inform them of the agencys plan to protect the public from the drugs potential harm. The FDA has issued a safety alert for Avandia, but for the moment it is not asking Glaxo to take any specific action. FDA officials were not immediately available for comment....

WHO's Guidelines Lack Evidence, Lancet Says

... the officials themselves were concerned about the agencys methods. One unnamed WHO director was quoted in the study as saying: I would have liked to have had more evidence to base recommendations on. Another said: We never had the evidence base well-documented. Pang said that, while some guidelines migh...

WTC Neighborhood Residents Misled on Extent of Contamination

...dine, assistant administrator of the environmental agencys Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, decl...ts took control of Congress. Christie Whitman, the agencys administrator in 2001, is expected to testify at a committee hearing in the House on Monday about he...

EPA to Improve Nanotechnology

...ogies (PEN) senior advisor J. Clarence Davies, The agencys current practice is inadequate to deal with nanotechnology. It is essential that EPA move quickly to recognize the novel biological and ecological characteristics of nanoscale materials. It can do this only by using the new uses provisions of TSCA,...

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