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Testimony before FDA hearing on cough and cold remedies for children (HRG Publication #1845)
Public Citizen testified that the FDA was moving too slowly to get ineffective cough and cold remedies for children off the market. It also emphasized that there is no evidence for the medicines' effectiveness for children under 11 years.
[Created on: 10/02/2008]

Comments to the Department of Labor Opposing Addition of Additional Steps in Proceedings to Regulate Occupational Hazards (HRG Publication #1844)
These comments to the Department of Labor oppose the addition of a requirement for an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to the already cumbersome process for creating regulations for occupational health and safety, as it would only lengthen (but not improve) the process by which regulations are made.
[Created on: 09/29/2008]

Comments On Health And Human Services' Proposed Rule Permitting Health-Care Workers To Not Perform Abortions and Certain Other Services If It Conflicts with Their Religious Beliefs (HRG Publication # 1843)
The fundamental problem with the regulation is that, by depriving patients of their right to be apprised of all the available medical options and thus to exercise their autonomy, it would allow unsuspecting patients to receive less-than-optimal medical care.
[Created on: 09/25/2008]

Comments to the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education (CME) advocating a ban on commercial support for CME (HRG Publication #1842)
Health Reasearch Groups's response to the ACCME's proposal to ban commercial support of Continuing Medical Education (CME).
[Created on: 09/12/2008]

Whose Trade Organization? A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO
Want to know why the WTO attracts passionate protests all over the world? Public Citizen carefully documents the WTO's nine-year track record with riveting case-by-case accounts.
[Created on: 08/29/2008]

Whose Trade Organization? A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO
Want to know why the WTO attracts passionate protests all over the world? Public Citizen advocates Wallach and Woodall carefully document the WTO's nine-year track record with riveting case-by-case accounts.
[Created on: 08/29/2008]

Comments to FDA Re: Content and Format of Labeling for Human Prescription Drug and Biological Products: Requirements for Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling (HRG Publication #1841)
These comments on the FDA's proposed pregnancy and breastfeeding labels criticize the agency for an over-emphasis on often poor human studies and an under-emphasis on animal studies.
[Created on: 08/27/2008]

Party Conventions Are Free-For-All for Influence Peddling
Party Conventions Are Free-For-All for Influence Peddling
[Created on: 08/18/2008]

The Arbitration Debate Trap: How Opponents of Corporate Accountability Distort the Debate on Arbitration
The Arbitration Debate Trap: How Opponents of Corporate Accountability Distort the Debate on Arbitration
[Created on: 07/25/2008]

Public Citizen Presses CPSC for Data Showing its Record on Notifying the Public About Dangerous Products
Public Citizen Presses CPSC for Data Showing its Record on Notifying the Public About Dangerous Products
[Created on: 07/10/2008]

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