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...says. "The truth is that we inevitably allow drugs on the market whose risks are not fully known." Waxman, however, insists that the FDA should have the discretion to make exceptions to the moratorium. This policy follows a recommendation that the Institute of Medicine offered in a 2006 report, "The Future of Drug Safety." "It doesn't have to be a full two years," Waxman says. "It's allowed to be limited to drugs that the FDA thinks might be a safety problem." Big Pharma certainly appreciates this less aggressive approach. (See the top 10 campaign ads of all time...
Although Flores and McLeod now assume official responsibility for the UC, Sundquist and Randall S. Sarafa ’09 will still have a presence on the Council, presenting a soon-to-be released report evaluating the UC’s effectiveness. Sundquist will continue to sit on a committee addressing Ad Board reform...
...Last year, after months of public hearings, a Maryland state commission on the death penalty voted 13-9 to recommend that it should be abolished. In its final report the commission, which was headed by former U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, cited the usual objections to capital punishment - cost, racial and jurisdictional disparities in sentencing, its ineffectiveness as a deterrent against crime and the possibility that innocent people might be put to death. One of the commission's members was Kirk Bloodsworth, who had been on death row in Maryland for two years in the mid-1980s before...
...Senator Lisa A. Gladden, a Baltimore Democrat who chairs the committee, also thinks this is the year it will happen. "You have the commission report, which confirms what we already knew," she says. "The death penalty is not a deterrent, it doesn't reduce crime, it's expensive, and it's unfair. And the governor has the ability to persuade some of the swing voters in my committee - and I only need one - to get the bill onto the floor. " If the bill is passed by the senate, it will then continue to the legislature's other chamber, the house...
...welcome. Despite Yemen's laws against child marriage, about 52% of Yemen's girls marry before the age of 18, often as the second or third wives of far older men. Worldwide, child marriage has been slow to change, according to UNICEF's "State of the World's Children" report released last month. About 49% of South Asian women in their early 20s were married before the age of 18, according to statistics gathered by UNICEF, which links early marriage to high rates of infant death and maternal mortality in very poor countries. "Often families marry off girls very young...