The Royal College of Nursing responded to news that former health secretary Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP has been elected new Chair of the Health Select Committee. Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said: "The RCN has a good relationship...
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday is expected to mark up a bill that would "authorize $3.5 billion in reconstruction funds for Haiti over five years" and would also require USAID "to submit a long-term reconstruction plan to Congress as well as mandate the president to appoint a...
Democratic Rep. Norm Dicks (Wash.) has started a "quiet campaign" to take over as chair of the House Appropriations Committee when Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) retires in November, Politico reports. Obey announced last Wednesday that he would not seek re-election. Since then, Dicks and Rep. Chaka...
I had a great time, and so did my friends, but there's this group of people who keep complaining. They keep saying the decorations sucked, the food, sucked, the music sucked, everything sucked. We spent THREE whole years raising money for their stupid senior prom, and all they did was complain...
InterMune, Inc. (Nasdaq: ITMN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has posted briefing documents for the March 9 Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee (PADAC) meeting to review the New Drug Application (NDA) for pirfenidone, InterMune's investigational drug candidate...
The Kentucky Health and Welfare Committee has rejected a prescriptive bill (SB 38) that would have required abortion providers to perform an ultrasound and offer the woman a chance to view the image before the procedure, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports (Yetter, Louisville Courier-Journal...
The Gamida Cell-Teva Joint Venture (JV) announced that the Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) has independently reviewed preliminary data from the pivotal registration, Phase III clinical trial of StemEx (called ExCell) and has recommended that the JV continue to enroll patients in this study. The...
Reacting to a report from the Health Select Committee on Alcohol, which calls for an overhaul of the Government's alcohol policy, Chris Sorek, Chief Executive of alcohol awareness charity Drinkaware, says: "Binge drinking is one of the biggest blights on today's society and it's imperative...
Roger Goodell sent out a league wide memo Tuesday announcing changes to the leagues stance on concussions. *Dr. Ira Casson and Dr. David Viano resigned from the NFL’s*committee*on*concussions.Goodell said the doctors will *”continue to assist the committee in its important work.”The news comes...
...meeting? What is the logistical/legal difference of a government (municipal) council meeting and a committee of the whole meeting and their purpose?