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Senator Ben Nelson Votes to Protect America's Kids from Tobacco

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senator Ben Nelson for voting today to approve historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, including the authority to crack down o...

American Lung Association in Iowa Thanks Senators Harkin and Grassley for Votes to Pass Legislation Granting FDA Authority Over Tobacco Products

DES MOINES, Iowa, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Lung Association in Iowa is happy to report the U.S. Senate's 79 to 17 vote in favor of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (HR 1256) today. The American Lung in Association in Iowa applauds Senators Tom Har...

Senator Johnson Votes to Protect America's Kids from Tobacco

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senator Tim Johnson for voting today to approve historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, including the authority to crack down ...

Senate Passes Senator Kennedy's Historic Bill to Regulate Tobacco Products; Senator Kerry Votes to Protect America's Kids From Tobacco

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy for his leadership and tenacity in winning Senate approval of his truly historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco prod...

Senator Rockefeller Votes to Protect America's Kids from Tobacco

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller for voting today to approve historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, including the authority to crack d...

Senator Landrieu Votes to Protect America's Kids from Tobacco

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senator Landrieu for voting today to approve historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, including the authority to crack down on ...

Senator McCaskill Votes to Protect America's Kids From Tobacco

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill for voting today to approve historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, including the authority to crack d...

Senator Bill Nelson Votes to Protect America's Kids from Tobacco

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senator Bill Nelson for voting today to approve historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, including the authority to crack down ...

Sen. Patty Murray Votes to Protect America's Kids from Tobacco

WASHINGTON, May 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO ) The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA...

Sen. Jeff Bingaman Votes to Protect America's Kids From Tobacco

WASHINGTON, May 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO ) The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) for vo...

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FDA Advisory Committee Votes in Favor of SAPHRIS(R) (asenapine) for Acute Bipolar I Disorder and Acute Schizophrenia

KENILWORTH, N.J., July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP ) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted unanimously in favor of SAPHRIS(R) (asenapine) sublingual tablets a...

FDA Advisory Committee Votes in Favor of Zyprexa for Two Adolescent Indications

ADELPHI, Md., June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (PDAC) voted that Zyprexa(R) (olanzapine), an atypical antipsychotic, is effective and acceptably safe for the acute treatment of schizophrenia or manic or mix...

FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Approval of the SEDASYS(R) System

... Panel votes in Favor of Use by Physician/Nurse Teams to Deliver Minimal-to-Moderate Propofol Sedation CINCINNATI, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Ethicon Endo-Surgery...

International Medical Corps Matched with Top 25 American Express Members Project, 'Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children'

...ard members. The five projects to receive the most votes by September 29 will vie for $2.5 million in fundi... a second voting round where the one with the most votes receives $1.5 million; second place $500,000; thir...ough nutrient-rich, ready-to-eat food. With enough votes from American Express card members, thousands of c...

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Sexual orientation and medicine

... of sexual perversity . 1974 The American Psychiatric Association votes to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Ment...e. [8] 2007 The American Medical Student Association membership votes to create an action committee on LGBT health issues. The US Food and Dru...

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UN votes to ban human cloning

By a vote of 84 in favor, 34 against and 37 abstaining, with 36 absent, the UN today approved a declaration calling on all UN Member States to ban all forms of human cloning, including cloning for medical treatment, as incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life. While in ge...

A matter of density, not quantity

...when these were confined in extremely small volumes. The term, quorum sensing, is derived from the Latin quorum; in politics, this is the number of votes that must be cast for an election or referendum to be valid. In biology, quorum sensing is defined as a process by which cells are able to detect the ...

Exhibition showcases the 'art of science'

... Choice" award of $196.53 (the geometric mean of the first and second prizes) will be awarded to the artist of the piece that receives the most online votes as of July 1, 2009 at noon EDT. Viewers can vote for their favorite Art of Science images at: www.princeton.edu/artofscience/2009/vote The ...

Carnegie's Field and Koshland Elected AAAS Fellows

...e officer. Each steering group then reviews the nominations within its respective section and a final list is forwarded to the AAAS Council, which votes on the aggregate list. The 2008 Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a pin on Saturday, February 14, at the AAAS Fellows For...

NIST, NCI bring web 2.0 tools to nanotechnology standards effort

...ng further development at NCI, the nanotechnology standards wiki will enable instantaneous dissemination (as well as archival) of drafts, discussions, votes and supporting materials. Wiki-related tools will help in organizing discussions, and standards developing organizations (SDOs) will be able to tap th...

New study looks to define evangelicals and how they affect polling

...ere is much debate over whether Sen. Obama can shave off enough evangelical votes to carry certain swing states, said Rice's D. Michael Lindsay, one of the r...have made unprecedented efforts to woo religious voters. They won't win the votes of all evangelicals, but in a tight election year, they don't have to -- on...

Oberthur Technologies XPon Offer

...38,239 shares, representing 0.9% of the shares and votes in XPonCard, have been tendered during the extensi... in XPonCard, representing 86.7% of the shares and votes in XPonCard, have been tendered in the Offer. Up u...n the market, representing 12.0% of the shares and votes in XPonCard. Accordingly, following the expiration...

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FDA Advisory Committee Votes in Favor of Approval of Fospropofol Disodium Injection for Sedation

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Eisai Corporation of North America and its U.S. subsidiary, MGI PHARMA, INC., today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory Committee on Anesthetic and Life Support Drugs (ALSDAC) has voted 6 to 3 in favor (with one absten...

BD Announces Results of Shareholder Votes at Annual Meeting

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX ) announced that its shareholders, at the Company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders today, elected Basil L. Anderson, Marshall O. Larsen, Gary A. Mecklenburg, Cathy E. Minehan and Alfred Somme...

Wisconsin Senate votes to outlaw cloning; measure still faces veto

Madison, Wis. -- The state Senate voted 21-12 on Wednesday, short of a veto-proof majority, to ban all forms of cloning in Wisconsin, though it is likely that Gov. Jim Doyle will veto the bill. The bill was supported by all Republicans and two Democrats: Sen. Jeff Plale, D-South Milwaukee, and...

Schering-Plough Shareholders Approve Merger With Merck

...announced the voting results of a special shareholders meeting today regarding the proposed merger with Merck & Co., Inc. More than 99 percent of votes cast voted to approve the merger agreement, with more than 78 percent of common shares voting. "Today's vote by our shareholders reflects the p...

Wyeth Announces Stockholder Approval of Pfizer Merger at 2009 Annual Meeting

...e Board to adopt an amendment to Wyeth's bylaws to give holders of 10% of outstanding common stock the power to call special shareowner meetings. The votes on these two stockholder proposals were tabulated in the event the merger does not close and Wyeth continues as a publicly traded company. Wy...

Icahn Indicates That Biogen Board Refuses To Close Polls

...ounced today that Biogen is acting in its usual shareholder unfriendly way by manipulating the annual meeting of shareholders in order the prevent the votes that have been submitted from being counted. They are doing so in order to attempt to keep two of the Icahn nominees from winning seats on the Board....

Amylin Announces Preliminary Tabulation of Annual Meeting Results

... and all proposals will be finalized once they are certified by the Inspector following a customary review and challenge period. A final tally of the votes will be published in the Company's next quarterly report on Form 10-Q which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in August. ...

Amgen Announces Voting Results Of Annual Meeting Of Stockholders

...d of Directors, each receiving a majority of "For" votes of the votes cast. Each was elected by no less than 86.7 percent of the votes cast. With the reelection of these directors, Amg...

2008 a Record Year for Gerresheimer

...ngs for the financial year 2008: (99.99% of votes in favor) ITEM 3: Approval of the actions o...mbers for the financial year 2008: (100% of votes in favor) ITEM 4: Approval of the actions o...mbers for the financial year 2008: (100% of votes in favor) ITEM 5: Supplementary election to...

Shire plc: Results of the Annual General Meeting Held on April 28, 2009

...,693,316 173,212 20,000 * These figures include discretionary votes ** A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "for" or "against" a resolution. Two copies of all resolutions passe...

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Overhang

...eats can arise in elections under the traditional mixed member proportional (MMP) system, when a party is entitled to fewer seats as a result of party votes than it has won constituencies. Overhang - Definition of Overhang on Investopedia - A measure of the potential ... Investopedia explains Overh...