The tobacco buyout and the FDA

Article Abstract:

The separate versions of tobacco legislation that the House and the Senate have attached to the Foreign Sales Corporation Act are being reconciled through a congressional conference committee. Accordingly, the House bill would eliminate all existing restrictions on tobacco growing, making it a free-market system whereas the Senate version has placed some restrictions on future tobacco farming and authorized the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate tobacco industry.

Tobacco, Tobacco Farming, Bills, Legislative, Legislative bills

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Tobacco tightrope: Balancing disease prevention and economic development in China

Article Abstract:

One third of smokers live in China and annually more than a million deaths occur due to smoking related diseases in China. Though China relies on tobacco industry for its economic growth with cigarette sales generating 7.6 percent of government's revenue in 2005 in taxes and profits, it has signed WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco control, which aims to reduce tobacco use.

China, Government domestic functions, Scientific Research and Development Services, Development, Economic Programs-Total Govt, Administration of Economic Programs, Evaluation, Economic aspects, Economic development, Smoking, Control, World Health Organization, Health policy

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Match point?

Article Abstract:

Congress retroactively granted residency programs and hospitals immunity from antitrust laws with a rare exemption, granted primarily to major league baseball players. The decision put the residency Match in the top headlines of the newspaper and reignited a national debate over medical training.

Management services, Office Administrative Services, Hospital Management, Powers and duties, Hospitals, Administrative agencies, Government agencies, Medical education, Hospital administration, Hospital/clinic administration software

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