Sentences with phrase «federal health panel»

This week, a federal health panel in the United States for the first time expressed concerns about BPA.

Not exact matches

However, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (a nongovernment panel sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service, a federal agency), «There is currently little evidence to suggest that routine iron supplementation during pregnancy is beneficial.»

One concern, according to the public comments, is that the federal panel deemed studies funded by industry and conducted by industry scientists to be more «appropriate for consideration» than papers by academic scientists funded by NIH and National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.

The Republicans, who have argued that scientific panels should guide federal regulations in health, safety and the environment, said that they distrust the process of peer review because it tends to shut out scientists who disagree with the prevailing view.

Specifically, the bill would eliminate the often fierce competition for money between NIH and other agencies overseen by the appropriations subcommittee that funds health, education, and welfare programs, as well as between that panel and the 11 other subcommittees that make up the overall federal budget pie.

Perturbed by recent news reports and its own findings that some National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have earned up to $ 300,000 or more in outside income (Science, 21 May, p. 1091), a congressional panel has asked another 15 federal agencies to report on employee consulting and awards.

Readers who follow health and science news may feel a little tipsy given the «see - saw» effect that several stories have demonstrated over the past year: First, a federal health - advisory panel announced last November that mammograms might do more harm than good for women before age 50.

The US federal government's expert panel on preventive medicine came to this conclusion after reviewing six randomized trials studying the health effects of vitamin D and calcium supplements.

Taking a cue from federal science agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Agency, the guidelines call for standing panels of reviewers to screen many of the research proposals funded by the Education Department's primary research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences.

The proposed revision of the drugtesting panel is intended to harmonize with the revised Mandatory Guidelines established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Federal drug - testing programs for urine testing.

The revision of the drug - testing panel harmonizes DOT regulations with the revised HHS Mandatory Guidelines established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Federal drug - testing programs for urine testing.

But in a report that I wrote about last year, an expert panel convened by the National Research Council sharply criticized the federal government's efforts to identify possible health or environmental risks of nanotechnology.

Former minister of public safety, health and justice in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin and also a former law professor at the University of Alberta, Anne McLellan most recently was appointed chairwoman of the Task Force on the Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis, the panel that submitted recommendations to the federal government on the design of a new system to legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access to cannabis.

She appeared in federal court one day last week, filled out forms and was told to return this Monday to be on a panel of 60 potential jurors in a health care fraud case.