It comes as no surprise that Daniel Troy, the current general counsel to GlaxoSmithKline, is at the center of the preemption mess unveiled by Rep. Henry Waxman today. It is surprising, however, that Troy's actions led to a three-month delay in getting a label change requested by GSK for Tykerb,...
A POWER struggle is developing inside the Democrat party between West coast environmentalists and the union-sponsored representatives of the party's industrial heartland, in a battle that will affect the future of the cash-strapped US car industry and shape President- elect Barack Obama's efforts to tackle global warming. ...
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Henry Waxman -- a liberal ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- has wrested the chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee from veteran Rep. John Dingell when the new Congress convenes in January. Waxman, a California liberal and avid environmentalist and...
The U.S. House has only one real fight over a leadership spot this year -- and Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, is rushing in with his political sword and shield to defend a committee chairman being challenged as not friendly enough to the environment. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich.,...
TWO hot documents from the US were doing the rounds of City inboxes last week. Wishful thinkers can fantasise that their contents might in. uence the governance of UK banking, just as Obama's victory is likely to in. uence our domestic politics. The first email attachment is...
If anyone thought in the waning weeks of the presidential campaign that healthcare would return as an election issue worthy of media headlines the slovenly banking and credit industries pretty much put a $700-billion kibosh on that. Prior to September 2001, few outside of the fictional world of...
WASHINGTON AFP — A finance committee in the US Congress is to expand its probe into the causes of the financial crisis next week by calling on a number of leading investment managers to testify, a leading lawmaker announced Friday. George Soros, a veteran financier famous for his...
Six days after the government rescued AIG with an $85 billion loan, the insurance company spent $443,000 on a week-long event for agents at a California resort, according to invoices produced during a congressional hearing Tuesday. "Average Americans are suffering economically," said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of...
WASHINGTON AFP — AIG executives escaped to a pricey California beach resort to unwind just days after the insurance giant was rescued by an unprecedented 85-billion-dollar US government loan, lawmakers said Tuesday. "Less than one week after the taxpayers rescued AIG, company executives could be found wining and...
WASHINGTON AFP — US lawmakers Monday grilled the head of Lehman Brothers demanding he justify some 500 million dollars he had earned since 2000, as well as huge bonuses sought for top executives even as the bank failed. Richard Fuld, the chief executive officer of the investment bank...
WASHINGTON AFP — US lawmakers Monday grilled the head of Lehman Brothers demanding to known why he had earned hundreds of millions of dollars from the failed bank, and also approved huge bonuses for top executives as it began to struggle. Richard Fuld, the chief executive officer of...
WASHINGTON AFP — The chief executive of collapsed investment firm Lehman Brothers and the current and former CEOs of troubled insurance giant AIG have been summoned to testify before Congress, an influential US lawmaker said on Wednesday. The two-day hearing in early October will "examine the regulatory mistakes...
THE MEDICARE prescription drug benefit has goosed pharma industry profits to the tune of $3.7 billion, said a report from Rep. Henry Waxman's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The two-year boost, said the report, was due to the fact that Medicare Part D pays an average of 30%...
A GROUP OF SENATORS and representatives has introduced a bill that would fund a test-run for so-called "academic detailing," whereby supposedly unbiased health professionals funded by non-commercial entities detail doctors just as drug company sales reps do. The Independent Drug Education and Outreach Act of 2008 or IDEA is...
I am writing to respond to the Aug. 3 commentary by Melissa Bird of Planned Parenthood about how to promote sexual health and safety, especially among adolescents. In her article, Ms. Bird suggests that abstinence-centered prevention programs are failing and that comprehensive (i.e., condom- centered) sex-education programs...
WASHINGTON -- The nation's pharmaceutical manufacturers are reaping a windfall from taxpayers because Medicare's privately administered prescription drug benefit program pays more than other government programs for the same medicines, a congressional committee charges. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform found that taxpayers are paying up to 30%...
Legislative Lowdown Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill Last week, the House of Representatives approved legislation to empower the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the tobacco Industry-and impose yet another tax on the American people. The legislation would give the FDA broad authority to...
WASHINGTON -- The Democratic-controlled Congress is working to overcome years of neglect by the Bush administration of agencies intended to safeguard the health of the public, especially children, a leading Democrat said Saturday. Rep. Henry Waxman said in his party's weekly radio address that Congress is "giving...
FLEX Senior Writer Shawn Perine and I viewed an advance screening of the documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster*, and on a scale of four biceps, we rate it four bi's up. The film takes a refreshingly nonjudgmental look at performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Director/writer/narrator Christopher Bell turns the camera on himself...
WASHINGTON --The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation that for the first time would subject the tobacco industry to regulation by federal health authorities charged with promoting public well-being. Its backers call the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act "landmark" legislation. While the bill appears to...
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