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...Tobacco to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Connolly will appear before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to argue in support of legislation recently introduced by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) and Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) calling upon the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the cigarette and smokeless tobacco industries. A similar bill calling for FDA regulation passed in the Senate three years ago but failed in the House of Representatives. Connolly said he hopes that FDA regulation of the tobacco industry will...
...BILL WAXMAN...
...service health clinic might mistakenly go to a CPC instead and be "harassed, bullied and given blatantly false information." It accused centers of focusing on women's needs through the first two trimesters but then abandoning them once obtaining an abortion becomes much more difficult. Los Angeles Democrat Henry Waxman, now chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, investigated federally funded CPCs, using callers posing as pregnant 17-year-olds. The investigators reported that 20 of 23 centers they reached provided "false or misleading information about the health effects of abortion," inflating the risk of breast cancer...
...shared champagne and raised a glass in her honor.” Exiting Loeb House after the meeting, several overseers said they were pleased with Faust’s selection. “I couldn’t be happier,” said overseer Seth P. Waxman ’73. Corporation fellow and search committee memeber Robert D. Resichauer ’63 said there was “widespread support among all those who were involved in the decision process today.” The search committee met with the Overseers at each of the board?...
...three Democrats who asked for the GAO study-Rep. Henry Waxman, Sen. Edward Kennedy and Sen. Richard Durbin-pounced on its findings as proof once more that corporate greed in health care is shortchanging consumers. "The report shows that much drug industry research doesn't translate into real breakthroughs for patients," says Kennedy. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which represents the drug industry, fired back that the GAO report only confirms that developing new drugs has become a more expensive, difficult and risky exercise for manufacturers. "Researchers are tackling increasingly complex diseases using new tools-such as genomics...