Articles tagged with panel
Thu, May 17, 2012
Exclusive: U.N. probes possible North Korea arms trade with Syria, Myanmar
By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with sanctions on North Korea is ...
Wed, May 16, 2012
Exclusive: Iran flouts U.N. sanctions, sends arms to Syria: panel
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban ...
Tue, May 15, 2012
FDA panel backs OraSure's In-Home HIV test
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts concluded that OraSure Technologies Inc's over-the-counter, in-home ...
Fri, May 11, 2012
FDA panel recommends Gilead's Quad for HIV
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts on Friday recommended the use of Gilead Sciences ...
Thu, May 10, 2012
FDA panel backs Gilead's Truvada to prevent HIV
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts recommended Gilead Sciences Inc's Truvada as a ...
Thu, May 10, 2012
House panel focuses on China's defense buildup
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are pushing for the Pentagon to provide more accurate reports on China's military development and ...
Thu, May 10, 2012
Arena obesity pill wins over U.S. advisers
By Anna Yukhananov
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - An experimental obesity pill from Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc won the support of U.S. advisers on Thursday ...
Wed, May 09, 2012
SDCC 2011: 'The Amazing Spider-Man' Panel & Footage Description!
From Hollywood.com Staff
6000 screaming Spider-Man fans assembled in Hall H at the San Diego Convention Center amongst 6000 to witness the first ...
Tue, May 08, 2012
SDCC 2011: 'The Amazing Spider-Man' Panel & Footage Description!
From Hollywood.com Staff
6000 screaming Spider-Man fans assembled in Hall H at the San Diego Convention Center amongst 6000 to witness the first ...
Tue, May 08, 2012
Obesity fight must shift from personal blame: panel
By Sharon Begley
NEW YORK (Reuters) - America's obesity epidemic is so deeply rooted that it will take dramatic and systemic measures - from overhauling ...
Mon, May 07, 2012
Talk to teens, young adults about sun safety: panel
By Genevra Pittman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New recommendations from a government-backed panel call for primary care doctors to talk about the importance of ...
Mon, May 07, 2012
Ask women about partner violence, panel says
By Genevra Pittman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors should screen all of their female patients for signs of partner violence, whether face-to-face or through ...
Fri, May 04, 2012
Preview: U.S. panel seen backing Pfizer's arthritis drug hope
By Anna Yukhananov
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc's experimental rheumatoid arthritis drug goes before an advisory panel next week, a potential blockbuster medicine that ...
Mon, April 30, 2012
U.N. panel prepares to expand North Korea sanctions: envoys
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States, South Korea, Japan and European nations have submitted to the U.N. Security Council's ...
Fri, April 27, 2012
U.S. Secret Service limits alcohol, hotel guests on trips abroad
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Heavy drinking and bringing foreign nationals back to hotel rooms on trips abroad is now banned by the U ...
Wed, April 25, 2012
'The Voice' Coaches in Talks to Return: The Perfect Panel?
When The Voice debuted in 2011, it prided itself on being the reality competition that was all about the talent. Now in its popular ...
Thu, April 19, 2012
Obama, top Senate Democrat split on nuclear nominee
By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will renominate Republican Kristine Svinicki to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, defying opposition from ...
Wed, April 18, 2012
House panel okays $33 billion in food stamp cuts
By Emily Stephenson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel approved about $33 billion in cuts over 10 years from food stamp benefits, in ...
Fri, April 06, 2012
Marine who criticized Obama on Facebook should be dismissed: panel
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A Marine who posted on Facebook that he would not follow orders from President Barack Obama should be ...
Thu, April 05, 2012
U.S. panel backs Astellas drug for leaky bladder
By Anna Yukhananov
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. advisers backed a bladder drug from Astellas Pharma Inc on Thursday, boosting the company's ...
Fri, March 30, 2012
Florida panel investigating hazing will meet publicly
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida college under pressure to fix its culture of brutal hazing zig-zagged over the past week on ...
Thu, March 29, 2012
Senate panel OKs nominees to FDIC, Treasury
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Banking Committee on Thursday voted to approve the nomination of JP Morgan Chase and Co executive Jeremiah Norton to fill ...
Thu, March 29, 2012
Senate confirms top bank regulators
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed President Barack Obama's picks for key spots at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC ...
Tue, March 27, 2012
Senate panel may vote on Russian rights bill
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human rights legislation named after an anti-graft lawyer who died in a Russian jail is likely to be considered ...
Fri, March 23, 2012
U.S. panel rejects wider use of Stryker brain stent
By Anna Yukhananov
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. advisers on Friday said Stryker Corp's artery-opening stent for the brain should not be used ...
Fri, March 23, 2012
Idaho state Senate panel nixes teen tan ban
By Laura Zuckerman
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - An Idaho Senate committee on Thursday nixed a measure that would have banned the use of tanning beds ...
Fri, March 23, 2012
Idaho state Senate panel nixes teen tan ban
By Laura Zuckerman
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - An Idaho Senate committee on Thursday nixed a measure that would have banned the use of tanning beds ...
Thu, March 22, 2012
U.S. House votes to abolish Medicare cost panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new Medicare cost-control panel that Republicans said would lead to rationing care for the elderly was voted down by the U ...
Wed, March 21, 2012
House panel subpoenas MF Global executive to testify
By Philip Shishkin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional subcommittee voted on Wednesday to issue a subpoena to a key employee of MF Global Inc, the ...
Tue, March 20, 2012
U.S. sets 'surprisingly low' China solar panel duties
By Doug Palmer and Matt Daily
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States dealt a blow to U.S. solar panel manufacturers and boosted ...
Tue, March 20, 2012
FDA panel splits recommendations on sarcoma drugs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Votrient for soft-tissue sarcoma on Tuesday, but did not ...
Thu, March 15, 2012
US health panel: Pap tests needed only every 3 years
By Genevra Pittman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women only need to get a Pap test once every three years to check for cervical cancer ...
Wed, March 14, 2012
Panel votes to lift duties on Brazil orange juice
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. trade panel on Wednesday revoked anti-dumping duties of up to 60 percent on orange juice from ...
Wed, March 14, 2012
Health panel: Pap tests needed only every 3 years
By Genevra Pittman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women only need to get a Pap test once every three years to check for cervical cancer ...
Tue, March 13, 2012
Senate panel considers special session for mine permit bill
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - A Wisconsin Senate panel has scheduled a meeting for Monday to discuss the consideration of a mining bill during a possible ...
Tue, March 13, 2012
FDA panel says pain drug trials should continue
By Anna Yukhananov
(Reuters) - A panel of advisers on Monday voted unanimously that companies such as Pfizer Inc and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc should be ...
Mon, March 12, 2012
FDA panel says pain drug trials should continue
By Anna Yukhananov
(Reuters) - A panel of advisers on Monday voted unanimously that companies such as Pfizer Inc and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc should be ...
Wed, March 07, 2012
House panel votes sanctions on Syria energy sector
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House committee on Wednesday voted to impose new sanctions on Syria's energy sector and called ...
Fri, March 02, 2012
Trade panel to review Microsoft, Motorola decision
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. trade panel, which hears patent infringement cases, said on Friday that it would undertake a wide-ranging review of its ...
Wed, February 29, 2012
Bernanke's Q&A testimony to Senate panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Below are highlights from the question and answer session of a Senate Banking Committee hearing with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifying ...
Fri, February 24, 2012
Appeals panel assesses Porsche-VW short squeeze
By Grant McCool
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal appeals judges on Friday honed in on whether a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting securities fraud ...
Thu, February 16, 2012
Rhode Island school panel to consider appeal of prayer banner
By Mary Ellen Godin
CRANSTON, Rhode Island (Reuters) - A school committee geared up on Thursday for boisterous crowds expected at its meeting on a ...
Tue, February 14, 2012
Maryland advances gay marriage bill on Valentines's Day
By Ian Simpson
(Reuters) - A joint panel of the Maryland legislature approved on Valentines's Day a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, adding to ...
Fri, February 10, 2012
Radiohead Bassist Added to Judge’s Panel for Vimeo Festival + Awards
Video sharing site Vimeo.com has announced that Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood will be one of the judges for the upcoming 2012 Vimeo Festival ...
Thu, February 09, 2012
FDA panel rules against NeurogesX patch for HIV
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts on Thursday ruled against using a pain-relief product derived from chili peppers to ...
Thu, February 09, 2012
Senate panel approves bill to televise high court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Proceedings of the Supreme Court, long kept out of the view of most Americans, would be televised under a bipartisan bill approved ...
Thu, February 09, 2012
FDA panel rejects Eisai's leukemia drug
(Reuters) - An independent advisory panel to the U.S. health regulator said that Japanese drugmaker Eisai Co Ltd's Dacogen did not show a ...
Wed, February 08, 2012
FDA panel votes against wider use of Amgen drug
By Anna Yukhananov
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An advisory panel on Wednesday recommended that U.S. health regulators reject the use of Amgen Inc's drug ...
Tue, February 07, 2012
House panel advances Keystone pipeline plan
By Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A plan to fast-track the stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline was passed by a key committee in the U ...
Tue, February 07, 2012
Bernanke's testimony on economy to Senate panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Below are highlights from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony on Tuesday on the state of the U.S. economy to ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
Senate panel backs tough pressure on Iran
By Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Banking transactions with Iran and financing for its oil shipments could come under tougher scrutiny after a bipartisan sanctions ...
Wed, February 01, 2012
FDA panel to discuss Arena obesity drug in 2nd quarter
(Reuters) - An FDA advisory committee will meet in the second quarter to discuss Arena Pharmaceutical Inc's experimental obesity drug following the company's ...
Wed, February 01, 2012
SEC advisory panel concerned about crowdfunding
By Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON, DC (Reuters) - An advisory committee urged U.S. securities regulators on Wednesday to relax outdated rules that trigger public ...
Wed, February 01, 2012
Senate panel to look at Verizon spectrum deals
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate antitrust panel is planning a hearing to discuss Verizon Wireless's multibillion dollar deals to buy wireless airwaves from cable ...
Wed, February 01, 2012
Questions remain as panel winds up Sino-Forest probe
(Reuters) - China-focused plantation operator Sino-Forest Corp said an independent committee had wound up its investigation into allegations the firm had exaggerated its assets, but ...
Tue, January 31, 2012
Sharp to halve LCD panel output at Osaka
(Reuters) - Sharp Corp will halve its LCD panel output at its Sakai facility in Osaka in Japan, marking its second deep production cut in ...
Tue, January 31, 2012
Panel defends call to censor bird flu studies
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A potentially deadlier form of the bird flu virus poses one of the gravest known threats to humans and ...
Tue, January 31, 2012
U.S. panel defends call to censor bird flu studies
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A potentially deadlier form of the bird flu virus poses one of the gravest known threats to humans and ...
Mon, January 30, 2012
CFTC panel to review high-frequency trading
By Christopher Doering
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is expected to review a rapid-fire technique that allows traders to buy and sell ...
Fri, January 27, 2012
Senate banking panel to vote on Iran sanctions February 2
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - - The Senate Banking Committee expects to vote on Thursday, February 2 on legislation containing more sanctions on Iran, the panel announced on ...
Thu, January 26, 2012
U.S. needs long-term site for nuclear waste: panel
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States must urgently work to find a new central site to house its spent nuclear fuel and ...
Mon, January 23, 2012
House panel to scrutinize Cordray appointment
By Alexandra Alper
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on February 15 to investigate the constitutionality of President Barack Obama ...
Wed, January 18, 2012
Federal panel faults Idaho lab for radiation exposure mishap
By Laura Zuckerman
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The radiation exposure of 16 workers at a nuclear research lab in Idaho stemmed from a failure to ...
Wed, January 18, 2012
Panel backs U.S. finding on Toyota, recommends steps
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A scientific panel backed a U.S. government finding that electronic software played no role in sudden acceleration of ...
Wed, January 18, 2012
Science panel backs government probe of Toyota
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government conducted a thorough review and was justified last year in concluding that software systems played no role in unintended acceleration ...
Mon, January 16, 2012
Obama jobs panel pushes tax reform, domestic drilling
By Matt Spetalnick
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's jobs council called on Tuesday for a corporate tax overhaul, expanded domestic drilling and new ...
Mon, January 16, 2012
Panel clears audit firms of Olympus scandal blame
By Yoko Kubota and Nobuhiro Kubo
TOKYO (Reuters) - An unofficial panel of experts cleared global accounting groups KPMG and Ernst & Young of any responsibility for a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at Japan's Olympus Corp, though the role of the firms remained under official review.
The scandal, one of corporate Japan's worst, had raised questions over the role of the two audit firms, which signed off on the accounts of the maker of medical equipment and cameras before the 13-year fraud finally surfaced in October.
But the panel of lawyers set up by Olympus to look at the role of auditors said in a report on Tuesday that five individual auditors were responsible for 8.4 billion yen ($109 million) in damages.
Olympus said later it was suing the five former and current individuals, seeking up to 1 billion yen in damages.
The panel effectively found the fraud, identified by a separate investigation as having being hatched by two former top executives in the 1990s to conceal losses, had been too well covered up for the external audit firms to have unraveled it.
"The masterminds of this case were hiding the illegal acts by artfully manipulating experts' opinions," the report said.
Neither KPMG's Japanese unit, KPMG AZSA LLC, which was the firm's external auditor until 2009, nor Olympus' current auditor, Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC, was found to have violated its legal duties, the panel said.
Ernst & Young and KPMG, however, still face possible sanctions by the country's accounting industry body and financial regulator, which have launched probes into the matter.
The company is already suing its president and 18 other executives, past and present, for up to 3.6 billion yen in compensation for the accounting scam, which has halved Olympus' share price and put it under pressure to raise capital.
Fresh lawsuits against individual auditors would only add to what is already an extraordinary chapter in Japanese corporate governance, with Olympus being mostly run and internally audited by people it is suing for mismanagement or a failure of duty.
Olympus said last week that all board members subject to the lawsuit would quit at an emergency shareholders meeting to be held in March or April.
OLYMPUS LIKELY TO KEEP LISTING
A decision, however, to clear the auditing firms could bolster Olympus' chances of keeping its Tokyo Stock Exchange listing, a critical prerequisite for its campaign to remain an independent company with access to fresh equity capital.
Suing Ernst & Young ShinNihon would likely leave it without an auditor and make it hard to meet exchange requirements. But Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) is still looking into the auditors' roles.
"We believe KPMG hasn't done anything wrong and will be cleared by Japanese regulators," Hideyo Uchiyama, chairman of KPMG Asia Pacific, told Reuters on the sidelines of a presentation in Taipei.
"At this point, KPMG has not made changes in the way it supervises its local unit, as it is waiting for the regulators' ruling," he added, speaking through an interpreter.
The Tokyo exchange has yet to conclude whether Olympus should remain listed.
Olympus has admitted to having used improper accounting tricks to conceal massive investment losses under a scheme that began in the 1990s, when Japanese stock markets had fallen heavily and the yen strengthened markedly.
The scandal came to light after Olympus fired its British chief executive, Michael Woodford, in October, prompting him to blow the whistle on the firm's dubious bookkeeping.
Woodford later launched a campaign to be reinstated but withdrew after failing to win support from Japanese institutional investors.
An Olympus shareholder filed suit on Tuesday against 14 past and present directors for firing Woodford, asking them to pay damages of 1.34 billion yen ($17.5 million) to the company, lawyers for the shareholder - an individual residing in Nara, western Japan - said in a statement.
The fraud relied on complex transactions, many of them involving offshore vehicles, which were presented in Olympus' financial statements as legitimate acquisitions or investments.
It was only late last year that some of these deal payments were exposed as shams, especially a $687 million advisory fee paid to a boutique U.S. financial firm for the $2 billion acquisition of British medical equipment firm Gyrus in 2008. At a third of the purchase price, the fee was the world's largest.
Tuesday's report found former standing corporate auditors Minoru Ota and Katsuo Komatsu, current outside corporate auditors Makoto Shimada and Yasuo Nakamura, and current standing corporate auditor Tadao Imai had breached their fiduciary duty.
It also held Ota responsible for 3.7 billion yen in damages. He headed the accounting division in the 1990s.
The other four were collectively held responsible for about 4.7 billion yen in damages because they had overlooked Olympus directors' illegal activities, it added.
A panel set up by Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC to review its auditing of Olympus said last month it had not found any problems, although a separate investigative committee appointed by Olympus had been critical of the auditors' role.
KPMG's chairman, Michael Andrew, said in November that his firm had done the right thing in its actions regarding Olympus.
Olympus President Shuichi Takayama will hold a news conference on Wednesday at 1 p.m. (0400 GMT), the company said, to discuss its response to the panel's report.
Olympus shares fell 2.1 percent to their lowest close since January 6, while the benchmark Nikkei average rose 1 percent.
($1 = 76.84 Japanese yen)
(Additional reporting by Mari Saito in Tokyo and Faith Hung in Taipei; Writing by Linda Sieg ...
Fri, January 06, 2012
Exclusive: Olympus sues current president, ex-directors
By Reiji Murai
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Olympus Corp has sued its current president and three ex-directors for several million dollars in compensation, sources ...
Mon, December 26, 2011
E&Y audit panel says no violations in Olympus handover
By Nathan Layne
TOKYO (Reuters) - A panel reviewing the auditing of Olympus Corp after its $1.7 billion accounting scandal said it had so ...
Sun, December 18, 2011
Default notices spur strategic review at Sino-Forest
By Euan Rocha
TORONTO (Reuters) - Sino-Forest
Sun, December 18, 2011
Health panel takes heat on cancer screening advice
By Alina Selyukh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Ned Calonge knows firsthand how hard it is to tell Americans they'd be better off with fewer ...
Thu, December 15, 2011
U.S. panel raps how agencies handle human research
By Alina Selyukh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government agencies fund thousands of studies on human subjects, but do not have a very good handle ...
Thu, December 15, 2011
U.S. agrees to limit medical research on chimpanzees
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) will sharply curtail medical research studies using chimpanzees, humans' closest relative ...
Tue, December 13, 2011
FDA panel backs Alexza drug with limits
U.S. drug advisers recommended approving an experimental treatment from Alexza Pharmaceuticals for calming down patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, but placed restrictions ...
Mon, December 12, 2011
House-Senate panel agrees new sanctions on Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of a U.S. House and Senate negotiating panel on Monday said they had agreed to compromise legislation imposing new sanctions ...
Mon, December 12, 2011
FDA panel backs Alexza drug with limits
U.S. drug advisers recommended approving an experimental treatment from Alexza Pharmaceuticals for calming down patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, but placed restrictions ...
Sat, December 10, 2011
Yemen leader will choose war, not quit: Nobel winner
By Gwladys Fouche and Balazs Koranyi
OSLO (Reuters) - The world's conscience should be haunted for its failure to help the democratic uprising in ...
Thu, December 08, 2011
FDA panel votes against CardioMEMS device
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel on Thursday decided not to recommend CardioMEMS implantable heart device for ...
Thu, December 08, 2011
U.S. asks for WTO panel in poultry spat with China
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States asked the World Trade Organization on Thursday to strike down duties that China imposed on U ...
Thu, December 08, 2011
Highlights: House panel's hearing on MF Global bankruptcy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The following comments were made on Thursday at a House Agriculture Committee hearing to examine the bankruptcy of MF Global. It was ...
Thu, December 08, 2011
E&Y sets up external panel to probe Olympus audit
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese arm of Ernst & Young is setting up an external panel to probe its audit of Olympus Corp amid questions over whether it and prior auditor KPMG could have been tougher in checking the scandal-hit firm's accounts.
The move comes after an independent panel commissioned by Olympus to investigate its $1.7 billion accounting scandal raised some issues with the work of Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC, which took over as auditor in 2009, and prior auditor KPMG AZSA LLC.
While Ernst & Young ShinNihon says it conducted an internal review of its Olympus audit and found no problems, it decided to solicit an external probe given the public attention on the scandal.
"The impact of this incident on society has been large. It is a problem we are taking very seriously," Kaoru Kashima, an executive board member at Japan's largest auditing firm, told reporters on Thursday.
Olympus has admitted to paying over the odds for three Japanese companies and to inflating an advisory fee for a 2008 overseas acquisition, as part of an elaborate scheme to cover up investment losses dating back to the 1990s.
In its report, the independent panel raised questions about whether Ernst & Young and KPMG could have done a better job in monitoring the firm's accounting.
The panel took issue with whether the handover of auditing duties from KPMG to Ernst & Young in 2009 was thorough, and the booking of the advisory fee as goodwill.
"Even when we account for the fact that they have just assumed their position as the auditor, and they lacked knowledge of past events, we cannot conclude this was appropriate," the panel said in its report on December 6.
Ernst & Young named three of the panel members -- Takashi Oizumi, Nobuo Gohara and Toshifumi Takada -- and said it was still searching for one or two more. The panel will aim to issue its findings as early as this month, Kashima said.
Oizumi, a lawyer who once headed the Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office, will chair the panel.
Gohara is a lawyer who led a third-party investigation into a scandal at Kyushu Electric Power related to the promotion of nuclear energy, while Takada is a professor of auditing at Tohoku University.
(Reporting by Nathan Layne; Editing by Mike Nesbit)
Thu, December 08, 2011
MF Global's Corzine: I did not intend to break rules
By Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A contrite Jon Corzine, in his first public defense of his leadership of now-bankrupt futures brokerage MF Global ...
Wed, December 07, 2011
FDA panel gives nod to Affymax drug for anemia
By Anna Yukhananov
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - A new Affymax Inc drug won expert backing to treat anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease ...
Wed, December 07, 2011
Corzine to make remarks to panel on MF Global
By Sarah N. Lynch and Grant McCool
(Reuters) - Former MF Global chief Jon Corzine plans to deliver opening remarks when he appears before a ...
Wed, December 07, 2011
FDA panel backs Pfizer's drug for kidney cancer
By Anna Yukhananov
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc won unanimous expert backing for its Inlyta experimental drug for patients with advanced kidney cancer ...
Wed, December 07, 2011
Some men can delay prostate cancer treatment: panel
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Men with low-risk prostate cancer may wait to see if their disease progresses before treating it, an independent panel ...
Wed, December 07, 2011
FDA panel backs Pfizer's drug for kidney cancer
By Anna Yukhananov
SILVER SPRING, Md., Dec 7 - Pfizer Inc won unanimous expert backing for its Inlyta experimental drug for patients with advanced kidney ...
Tue, December 06, 2011
Olympus board signals it will quit
By Isabel Reynolds and Yoko Kubota
TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympus Corp's board signaled plans to quit over a $1.7 billion accounting fraud, but ...
Sun, December 04, 2011
U.S. power grid needs cybersecurity shield: report
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The threat of cyberattacks on the U.S. power grid should be dealt with by a single ...
Sun, December 04, 2011
Olympus board meets amid pressure to quit after damning report
TOKYO (Reuters) - The board of Japan's scandal-ridden Olympus Corp <7733.T> is expected on Wednesday to consider legal action against former executives who cooked its ...
Sun, December 04, 2011
Olympus hid up to $1.7 billion, but no call for charges: source
By Reiji Murai
TOKYO (Reuters) - An investigative panel has found Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp hid up to $1.67 billion in losses from ...
Sun, December 04, 2011
Panel to release report on Olympus scandal Tuesday: report
TOKYO (Reuters) - An expert panel appointed by Japan's Olympus Corp to look into an accounting scandal at the disgraced firm will release its ...
Fri, December 02, 2011
Senate panel may subpoena MF Global's Corzine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Agriculture Committee will meet next week to vote on whether to subpoena former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine, if he ...
Fri, December 02, 2011
Congress subpoenas Corzine on MF Global collapse
By Alexandra Alper and Charles Abbott
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former MF Global chief Jon Corzine was subpoenaed to testify before Congress, setting up an awkward ...
Thu, December 01, 2011
Cybersecurity bill approved by House panel
(Reuters) - A bill to let U.S. spy agencies share intelligence on cyber threats with private companies was backed by a House of Representatives ...
Wed, November 23, 2011
Ohio panel proposes exotic animal ban in wake of October rampage
By Kim Palmer
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Ohio may ban the sale and new ownership of the kinds of exotic animals that caused a panic last ...
Wed, November 23, 2011
House panel to meet on spectrum bill December 1
By Jasmin Melvin
(Reuters) - A bill to create a wireless network for public safety and make more airwaves available to bandwidth-hungry communications companies, will ...
Mon, November 21, 2011
Text: U.S. deficit panel statement on failure
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. congressional special panel on deficit-reduction on Monday issued a statement announcing it had failed to come to any agreement ...
Mon, November 21, 2011
Panel rules Apple does not infringe S3 patents
(Reuters) - Apple Inc does not violate patents owned by S3 Graphics Co, the International Trade Commission said on Monday in the latest ruling in ...
Mon, November 21, 2011
Analysis: Fallout from deficit-reduction panel failure
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The failure of a congressional deficit-cutting "super committee" means the tough work of putting the United States' finances on ...
Sun, November 20, 2011
Penn State trustees panel sets news conference Monday
(Reuters) - A special committee formed by Penn State trustees to investigate the university's actions after reports of child sex abuse by a former ...
Sun, November 20, 2011
Olympus says panel finds no criminal links yet in M&A deals
By James Topham
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Olympus Corp said on Monday that a third-party panel appointed by the company to look into an ...
Sun, November 20, 2011
White House urges debt panel to make "tough choices"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House urged a congressional deficit-reduction committee on Sunday to make "tough choices" to complete its task, as the panel remained ...
Sun, November 20, 2011
Obama pushes divided Congress to extend tax cut
By Alister Bull
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - President Barack Obama challenged the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to vote next week to save an ...
Thu, November 17, 2011
Corporate tax cut desired, hard to get: panel
By Patrick Temple-West
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the United States looks toward tax reform, it will be difficult to lower the corporate tax rate without ...
Thu, November 17, 2011
House panel votes for F-16s for Taiwan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House committee on Thursday voted to require President Barack Obama to sell 66 new F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan ...
Wed, November 16, 2011
FDA panel backs Pfizer vaccine for adults
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc won expert backing for using its blockbuster vaccine in adults to fight pneumonia, meningitis and other diseases caused ...
Tue, November 15, 2011
Sino-Forest is no "Ponzi" scheme: panel report
By Farah Master
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Canada-listed Sino-Forest Corp said an independent committee found no evidence of fraud at the Chinese timber firm following ...
Mon, November 14, 2011
Deficit "super committee" stalled as deadline looms
By Donna Smith and Patrick Temple-West
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Both sides of Congress' deadlocked "super committee" held separate talks on Saturday, but formal negotiations remained ...
Mon, November 14, 2011
Wall Street falls for sixth day
By Angela Moon
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks suffered a sixth straight day of losses on Wednesday as frustration over the euro zone's debt ...
Wed, November 02, 2011
U.S. tries "hip hop" diplomacy in Pakistan
By Chris Allbritton
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Considered by many Pakistanis to be public enemy number one, the United States on Monday turned to the musical ...
Wed, October 19, 2011
NYCC 2011: 'Red Tails' Panel Offers Action-Packed Footage & Stories from a Real WWII Pilot
Sure, superheroes are the big sell at New York Comic-Con, but real-life heroes are none too shabby either. That's the message to take ...
Tue, October 18, 2011
NYCC 2011: 'Red Tails' Panel Offers Action-Packed Footage & Stories from a Real WWII Pilot
Sure, superheroes are the big sell at New York Comic-Con, but real-life heroes are none too shabby either. That's the message to take ...
Tue, October 18, 2011
NYCC 2011: 'The Avengers' New Footage and Panel Highlights
Last week saw the trailer debut for the biggest superhero movie to date: Marvel's The Avengers. In 24 hours, it was downloaded 10 ...
Thu, October 13, 2011
Kansas panel faults ex-AG Kline on abortion probes
By Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY, Kan (Reuters) - A disciplinary panel on Thursday found "ethical misconduct" in the way a former attorney general of Kansas ...
Thu, October 13, 2011
Deficit panel grapples with corporate taxes
By David Morgan and Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sign of possible progress in bipartisan U.S. deficit talks, Republicans seem more flexible ...
Wed, October 12, 2011
U.S. deficit panel weighs Medicare doctor payments
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The congressional "super committee" charged with reducing U.S. budget deficits is considering tackling a measure that could make ...
Wed, October 12, 2011
Deficit panel weighs Medicare doctor payments
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The congressional "super committee" charged with reducing U.S. budget deficits is considering tackling a measure that could make ...
Wed, October 12, 2011
House panel subpoenas failed gun sting documents
By Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican congressional investigators demanded on Wednesday Attorney General Eric Holder turn over documents and communications about a bungled operation ...
Wed, October 12, 2011
House panel demands failed gun sting documents
By Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican congressional investigators demanded on Wednesday that the Obama administration turn over documents and communications about a bungled operation ...
Wed, October 12, 2011
Solyndra CEO leaves, high-profile fixer lined up
By Tom Hals
WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) - Solyndra, the solar panel maker that collapsed despite a U.S. government infusion of $535 million, wants to ...
Tue, October 11, 2011
Senate panel approves long-delayed trade deals
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Tuesday backed long-delayed trade pacts with South Korea, Colombia and Panama that are expected to ...
Thu, October 06, 2011
PSA test for prostate cancer not recommended: panel
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Doctors criticized proposals by a government-backed panel recommending against prostate cancer screening in healthy men -- saying they went too ...
Thu, October 06, 2011
Senate panel approves White House economic adviser
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Banking Committee on Thursday approved Princeton University economics professor and labor expert Alan Krueger to serve as the top White ...
Thu, October 06, 2011
Senate panel seen voting on trade pacts next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Finance Committee will vote on Tuesday on three long-delayed trade deals with South Korea, Panama and Colombia, a congressional source ...
Wed, October 05, 2011
Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list'
By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior ...
Wed, October 05, 2011
U.S. panel approves trade pacts with Colombia, Panama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key congressional panel on Wednesday backed long-delayed U.S. trade deals with Panama and Colombia, sending them to the floor of ...
Tue, October 04, 2011
FDA forms expert panel to speed up device approval
(Reuters) - The health regulator said it is seeking public input on a plan to create a network of outside experts who would help understand ...
Wed, September 28, 2011
As deficit panel meets, is no news good news?
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress' "super committee" is earning a reputation for being the "super secret committee" as radio silence envelopes the panel ...
Wed, September 28, 2011
Debt panel eyes dual Medicare/Medicaid patients
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government health benefits for some 9 million of the sickest and poorest U.S. citizens will come under scrutiny ...
Thu, September 22, 2011
Four tax facts for Congress deficit super panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief tax researcher of Congress gave a "super committee" on deficit reduction a broad look on Thursday at the condition of ...
Wed, September 21, 2011
Panel approves ending Saturday mail delivery
By Emily Stephenson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday approved a bill that would end Saturday mail delivery by the U ...
Tue, September 20, 2011
Budget panel hears competing ideas
By Richard Cowan and Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 12 members of a congressional "super committee" laid out competing visions on Tuesday for how ...
Tue, September 20, 2011
Too little evidence for ECG heart screening: panel
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although some doctors use electrocardiograms to screen symptom-free people for heart disease, there is too little evidence ...
Fri, September 16, 2011
Potent forces try to tie hands of deficit panel
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The days of "go big" in Washington's latest deficit-reduction drama are morphing into "don't go there."
When ...
Thu, September 15, 2011
Senate panel keeps budget boosts for SEC, CFTC
By Christopher Doering and Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Securities and futures regulators will see large budget increases to help them implement sweeping new ...
Wed, September 14, 2011
Deficit panel must confront alternate realities
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A slew of challenging choices confronts a special deficit-reduction committee in Congress, but one of the most significant yet ...
Tue, September 13, 2011
Tax reform vital to deficit panel's work: Senator Wyden
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As lawmakers on the congressional "super committee" grapple with the deficit, they keep talking about an objective that they ...
Tue, September 13, 2011
Congress budget agency warns panel of economic ills
By Richard Cowan and Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A softening U.S. economy means that Congress's "super committee" on deficit reduction must be ...
Tue, September 13, 2011
Senate panel backs freeze in Pentagon base budget
By David Alexander
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The nominee to become Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's top deputy cautioned against "draconian" cuts in the U.S ...
Mon, September 12, 2011
FDA panel gives nod to Bayer/J&J anti-clot drug
By Anna Yukhananov
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (Reuters) - A new stroke preventer from Bayer and Johnson & Johnson moved one step closer to U.S. approval, but questions remained about restrictions on labeling and the need for more studies.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 9-2 on Thursday to recommend approval of the once-a-day anti-clotting pill, called Xarelto.
Xarelto is one of several promising entrants angling to replace warfarin for people with dangerously irregular heart rhythms, called atrial fibrillation (AF).
Warfarin is a problematic decades-old clot preventer originally developed as rat poison.
"I've seen the problems many patients face with warfarin," said Dr. Philip Sager, a panel member and executive committee member of the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium in San Francisco. "I think there's a tremendous unmet medical need for new therapies."
Analysts estimate the stroke-fighting market could top $10 billion annually. Xarelto may lose out on market share if the FDA asks the company to conduct further trials, delaying approval, analysts said.
AF patients' irregular heartbeats can cause blood to pool, increasing their risk of blood clots and strokes. But many are unwilling to take warfarin, which requires regular blood tests, or are unable to tolerate it.
Panelists were divided on whether Xarelto, with the clinical name rivaroxaban, was as effective as warfarin.
In clinical trials that compared Xarelto to warfarin, panelists and the FDA said the older drug was not always given in the proper dosing, making it more difficult to determine if Xarelto was just as good.
"I've heard nothing that convinces me that rivaroxaban should be first-line treatment for many patients," said Allan Coukell, the consumer representative on the panel and director for medical safety at Pew Health Group, adding that Xarelto's label should reflect that.
Earlier this week, FDA reviewers said for conditions such as stroke, which can cause irreversible harm, new drugs must be shown to be at least as effective as older treatments, and called for the agency to delay Xarelto's approval.
In Thursday's meeting, panel members also focused on risks for patients when they come off the drug. Patients who stopped taking Xarelto and resumed warfarin at the end of the main clinical trial had a higher risk of stroke, a so-called "rebound" effect.
"Additional data probably should be obtained regarding how to transition (off of Xarelto) prior to approval," said Dr. Michael Lincoff, chair of the panel and professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
DELAY IN APPROVAL?
The FDA is set to make the final decision on Xarelto by November 4, Johnson & Johnson said.
"Given the relatively risk-adverse nature of the FDA, even with this panel's recommendation of Xarelto, the agency may want a number of additional studies" before granting approval, said Morningstar analyst Damien Conover.
"So there could be a one-to-two-year delay," he predicted, saying that would greatly hurt the drug's ultimate sales potential.
He said the FDA might be willing to take its time because another effective blood clot preventer, Boehringer Ingelheim's Pradaxa, was approved last year and is already available as an alternative to warfarin.
Conover said he had expected Xarelto to eventually capture 15 percent of the stroke-prevention market among AF patients, but he now expects its market share to be below 10 percent.
Dr Peter Dibattiste, global head of J&J's cardiovascular and metabolic division, said the company will discuss with the FDA the need for additional studies. A study looking at how long Xarelto lasted in patients could be relatively quick, "probably months," he told reporters.
A delay for Xarelto could give the edge to a rival treatment called Eliquis being developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer Inc. If Eliquis is approved, Morningstar's Conover predicted, it could have four times the sales of Xarelto.
Eliquis, also called apixaban, showed superiority over warfarin in effectiveness, safety and saving lives in a clinical trial presented last month at a scientific meeting in Paris, affirming its place as the potential leader of the pack.
Xarelto is approved in the United States and Europe for anti-clotting in patients after knee and hip surgery, a much smaller market than stroke prevention for AF patients.
Earlier this week, analysts from Sanford Bernstein forecast Xarelto sales of $948 million for J&J in 2015, and 800 million euros ($1.1 billion) for Bayer, which has much greater sales outside the United States.
Bayer said it sees peak sales of Xarelto at more than 2 billion euro ($2.8 billion), "irrespective of the decision by the FDA in early November," according to a statement.
Bayer, which co-developed the drug with J&J, sold exclusive U.S. marketing rights for Xarelto to J&J in 2005. As part of that agreement Bayer stands to receive royalty payments of up to 30 percent on U.S. sales.
Bayer said it expects approval of Xarelto in Europe in the third or fourth quarter of this year.
(Additional reporting by Ransdell Pierson in New York and Ludwig Baker in Frankfurt; editing by Bernard Orr, Gary Hill, Dave Zimmerman)
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Fri, September 09, 2011
Obama jobs plan could complicate deficit panel work
By Richard Cowan and Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new deficit-reduction "super committee" in the U.S. Congress, already split over tax and spending ...
Thu, September 08, 2011
FDA panel gives nod to Bayer/J&J anti-clot drug
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (Reuters) - A new stroke preventer from Bayer and Johnson & Johnson moved one step closer to U.S. approval, but questions remained about restrictions on labeling and the need for more studies.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 9-2 on Thursday to recommend approval of the once-a-day anti-clotting pill, called Xarelto.
Xarelto is one of several promising entrants angling to replace warfarin for people with dangerously irregular heart rhythms, called atrial fibrillation (AF).
Warfarin is a problematic decades-old clot preventer originally developed as rat poison.
"I've seen the problems many patients face with warfarin," said Dr. Philip Sager, a panel member and executive committee member of the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium in San Francisco. "I think there's a tremendous unmet medical need for new therapies," Sager said.
Analysts estimate the stroke-fighting market could top $10 billion annually.
AF patients' irregular heartbeats can cause blood to pool, increasing their risk of blood clots and strokes. But many are unwilling to take warfarin, which requires regular blood tests, or are unable to tolerate it.
Panelists were divided on whether Xarelto was as effective as warfarin.
In clinical trials that compared Xarelto to warfarin, panelists and the FDA said the older drug was not always given in the proper dosing, making it more difficult to determine if Xarelto was just as good.
Earlier this week, FDA reviewers said for conditions such as stroke, which can cause irreversible harm, new drugs must be shown to be at least as effective as older treatments.
They also focused on risks for patients when they come off the drug. When patients stopped taking Xarelto and resumed warfarin at the end of the main clinical trial, higher risk of stroke was seen, a so-called "rebound" effect.
"Additional data probably should be obtained regarding how to transition (off of Xarelto) prior to approval," said Dr. Michael Lincoff, chair of the panel and professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
The FDA is set to make the final decision on Xarelto in early November, Johnson & Johnson said.
The drug is approved in the United States and Europe for anti-clotting in patients after knee and hip surgery, a much smaller market than stroke prevention for AF patients.
(Reporting by Anna Yukhananov; editing by Bernard Orr)
Wed, September 07, 2011
Senate panel passes USDA disaster, famine aid funds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About $266 million was earmarked for U.S. agricultural disaster relief in a funding bill approved by a Senate committee on Wednesday ...
Wed, September 07, 2011
Q+A: Will debt panel tackle Medicare, Social Security?
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new congressional "super committee" will face tough choices on politically popular government health and retirement programs as it ...
Tue, September 06, 2011
Senate panel OKs disaster aid as funds dry up
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel approved $6 billion in disaster aid on Tuesday but it was unclear whether Congress would be ...
Tue, September 06, 2011
Defense cuts spat clouds deficit panel debate
By Richard Cowan and Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On the first day of work on Thursday for a "super committee" charged with finding $1 ...
Fri, September 02, 2011
Senate panel to vote on 7 SEC, financial nominees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Banking Committee on Friday said it will vote next week on the nominations of seven individuals for senior federal regulatory ...
Fri, September 02, 2011
Bayer, J&J clot drug seen winning U.S. panel nod
By Anna Yukhananov and Ransdell Pierson
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - An experimental stroke preventer from Bayer and Johnson & Johnson is likely to win a recommendation from U.S. health advisers next week, but not without concern over risks seen when patients come off the drug.
A key issue for the Food and Drug Administration advisers may be the so-called rebound effect of the medicine Xarelto. When patients stopped taking it and resumed older drug warfarin, higher risk of stroke was seen in trials.
"We think the FDA advisory panel will be concerned that there's a 'rebound' effect with discontinuing Xarelto," Wells Fargo analysts said in a research note on Thursday. "However, our consultants do not believe this will be a deal breaker."
Xarelto's shortcomings may also relegate it to second place in the marketplace behind a rival treatment being developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and Pfizer Inc, in an anti-clotting market that could top $10 billion a year, analysts say.
The advisory panel is set to consider the data on Xarelto next Thursday, after the FDA releases its initial findings on the drug on Tuesday.
"Key opinion leaders expect a panel recommendation for Xarelto, but not without controversy," analysts at Leerink Swann wrote in a note on Thursday.
The FDA usually follows the advice of its advisory panels, and Xarelto could be approved by November if the pill wins support at the meeting.
Xarelto is one of several promising entrants angling to replace risky clot preventer warfarin for people with dangerously irregular heart rhythms, called atrial fibrillation (AF).
AF patients' irregular heartbeats can cause blood to pool, increasing their risk of blood clots and strokes. But many are unwilling to take warfarin, which requires regular blood tests, or are unable to tolerate the old medicine.
Boehringer Ingelheim's Pradaxa is already approved in stroke prevention, while Eliquis, from Bristol-Myers and Pfizer, has so far shown the best clinical data, especially for reducing the risk of major bleeding.
RANKING THE COMPETITION
Jeff Jonas, an analyst with Gabelli & Co, predicted the advisory panel will recommend Xarelto because of its effectiveness and acceptable bleeding risk, and its advantages over warfarin.
"Xarelto will be overshadowed by apixaban (Eliquis), but it is going to be a decent drug and could generate $1 billion to $2 billion in annual sales, with the marketing muscle of J&J and Bayer," he said. Bristol and Pfizer plan to submit Eliquis for U.S. approval later this year for preventing stroke.
Another issue is some inconsistent data. A clinical trial last November showed Xarelto, known generically as rivaroxaban, was 21 percent better at preventing stroke in patients with AF compared with warfarin.
But when all those who entered the trial were evaluated, no superiority was established for Xarelto, a fact that is likely to come up in panel discussions.
"A superiority claim over warfarin ... is unlikely in our view and is not widely anticipated," said Barbara Ryan, analyst at Deutsche Bank, in a research note on Friday.
Panelists may also focus on the fact that warfarin was not used as effectively as it might have been in the study, making it more difficult to compare it with Xarelto.
Xarelto's advantage over rivals may come in its dosing, since it needs to be taken only once a day as opposed to twice for Eliquis and Pradaxa, a key factor for elderly patients taking multiple medications.
Gabelli & Co's Jonas said Eliquis is likely to capture 50 percent or more of the warfarin-replacement market, with Xarelto in second place comfortably ahead of Pradaxa.
"Pradaxa is being dismissed; it will be relatively small," he ...
Wed, August 31, 2011
Compensation system needed for injured research subjects: panel
By Alina Selyukh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government should create a system to compensate medical research subjects for injuries related to those trials, international reviewers ...
Wed, August 31, 2011
Deficit panel names Republican staff chief
By Richard Cowan
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Tue, August 30, 2011
U.S. needs system for injured research subjects: panel
By Alina Selyukh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government should create a system to compensate medical research subjects for injuries related to those trials ...
Tue, August 30, 2011
Deficit panel names Republican as staff director
By Richard Cowan
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Thu, August 25, 2011
Vaccines largely safe, U.S. expert panel finds
By Julie Steenhuysen
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Wed, August 24, 2011
Deficit "super" panelists studying others' work
By Kevin Drawbaugh and Richard Cowan
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Tue, August 23, 2011
HP sues AU Optronics over alleged LCD panel price
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Mon, August 22, 2011
School panel approves sex ed changes
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Fri, August 19, 2011
"Sword of Damocles" hangs over deficit panel
By Dan Burns
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Turbulence in world financial markets will add a sense of urgency to the work of a powerful new ...
Tue, August 16, 2011
Business to deficit panel: tackle taxes, Medicare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A big business group on Tuesday urged lawmakers on a deficit-cutting panel to revamp the U.S. tax code and health and ...
Tue, August 16, 2011
Scenarios: Deficit panel talks loom for Medicare, Medicaid
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government's soaring healthcare bill will be high on the agenda of Congress's new deficit-cutting "super committee ...
Fri, August 12, 2011
Analysis: Glimmers of hope for deficit-cutting panel
By Donna Smith and Richard Cowan
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Thu, August 11, 2011
House Democrats tap 3 for deficit super committee
By Richard Cowan and Donna Smith
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Thu, August 11, 2011
Exclusive: Republican Dave Camp rules nothing out for debt panel
By Donna Smith
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Thu, August 11, 2011
Panel seeks more disclosure on natural gas drilling
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Tue, August 09, 2011
Republican tax hardliners on debt super panel
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Tue, August 09, 2011
U.S. requests panel to decide Guatemala labor case
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Mon, August 08, 2011
Senate panel reviewing S&P downgrade
By Rachelle Younglai and Richard Cowan
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Mon, August 08, 2011
Downgrade raises stakes for deficit super panel
By Kevin Drawbaugh
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Thu, August 04, 2011
Sony rules out exiting TV business or LCD panel venture
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Tue, August 02, 2011
U.S. trade panel to probe Apple claim against Samsung
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Mon, August 01, 2011
Senate panel approves CFTC nominee Wetjen
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Thu, July 28, 2011
Senate panel schedules Google antitrust hearing
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Mon, July 25, 2011
Health officer faces ethics panel
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Wed, July 20, 2011
Montana governor creates oil pipeline safety panel
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Fri, July 15, 2011
Panel OK's new state, congressional district maps
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Thu, July 14, 2011
FDA panel backs Seattle Genetics drug for lymphoma
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Wed, July 13, 2011
Key senator calls for special cyber security panel
By Diane Bartz
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Sat, July 09, 2011
No toxic chemicals found in Yellowstone leak: EPA
By Laura Zuckerman
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Fri, July 08, 2011
Wausau attorney named to state panel
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Wed, June 22, 2011
House panel OKs covered bonds bill
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Wed, June 22, 2011
House panel delays action on U.S. free-trade deals
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Tue, June 21, 2011
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Fri, June 17, 2011
Oregon panel approves tough new clean water rules
By Teresa Carson
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Wed, June 15, 2011
House panel backs $649 billion in defense spending
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Tue, June 14, 2011
House panel backs $649 billion in defense spending
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Tue, June 14, 2011
Senate panel approves Panetta as defense chief
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Mon, June 13, 2011
Jobs panel proposes ways to spur hiring
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Mon, June 06, 2011
Toshiba, Sony plan to merge small LCD panel units: sources
By Kentaro Hamada and Reiji Murai
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Thu, June 02, 2011
Global war on drugs a failure, high-level panel says
By Michelle Nichols
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Thu, June 02, 2011
Japan panel: need to double sales tax by 2015 for welfare
By Stanley White
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese government panel on Thursday recommended doubling the country's sales tax in stages over the next four ...
Mon, May 23, 2011
House panel plans 15 pct cut for CFTC budget
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Fri, May 20, 2011
Panel to recommend cuts in state workers' overtime
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Thu, May 19, 2011
Panel strips job powers from sec'y of state
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Wed, May 18, 2011
Apple supplier TPK to expand touch panel business with Cando
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Fri, May 13, 2011
House panel votes to weaken consumer watchdog
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Thu, May 12, 2011
House panel OKs $690 billion in 2012 military spending
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Thu, May 12, 2011
Senate panel OKs anti-terrorism nominees
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Thu, May 12, 2011
Senate panel OKs Diamond for Fed, prospects cloudy
By Rachelle Younglai
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Tue, May 10, 2011
Senate banking panel chief defends Dodd-Frank
By Kevin Drawbaugh
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Mon, May 09, 2011
Senate panel plans vote on Fed pick Peter Diamond: aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Banking Committee is likely to vote on Thursday on Federal Reserve nominee Peter Diamond, a committee aide said, marking a ...
Sat, May 07, 2011
State panel OK's biomass plant
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Thu, May 05, 2011
U.N. Haiti cholera panel avoids blaming peacekeepers
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Wed, May 04, 2011
House panel backs weakening new consumer bureau
By Dave Clarke
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Tue, May 03, 2011
House panel OKs new way to fund home mortgages
By Corbett B. Daly
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Tue, May 03, 2011
Assembly Panel Expected to OK Voter ID Bill
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Tue, May 03, 2011
Interfaith panel seeks common ground
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Wed, April 27, 2011
FDA panel backs Merck hepatitis drug
By Lisa Richwine
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Wed, April 27, 2011
Merck pitches hepatitis C drug to U.S. FDA panel
By Lisa Richwine
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Tue, April 26, 2011
Budget panel begins debate
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) – The two Republicans who chair the state Legislature’s finance committee vowed today to re-write the proposed budget without raising taxes ...
Thu, April 21, 2011
Legislative Panel Removes 21 Non-Fiscal Items from Budget Proposal
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - The Legislature’s finance committee has removed 21 items from the proposed state budget that have nothing to do with state ...
Thu, April 21, 2011
Sharp says to make smartphone panels at TV panel plant
By Reiji Murai
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp said on Thursday it would start production of small display panels for use in smartphones ...
Tue, April 19, 2011
Republicans Kyl, Cantor named to deficit panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the Congress on Tuesday named two top lieutenants to a White House-led panel tasked with hammering out a budget plan ...
Tue, April 19, 2011
UK panel says more studies needed on 3-parent IVF
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - More research is needed before "3-parent" fertility treatments designed to prevent some incurable inherited diseases can be considered safe ...
Wed, April 13, 2011
Senate panel slams Goldman in scathing crisis report
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the most damning official U.S. report yet produced on Wall Street's role in the financial crisis ...
Wed, April 13, 2011
Credit raters triggered financial crisis: panel
By Rachelle Younglai and Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moody's Corp and Standard and Poor's triggered the worst financial crisis in decades ...
Wed, April 13, 2011
U.S. panel seeks improved safety after Crippen death
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Limits on water temperature and improved safety standards should be adopted for open water swimming competitions, a U.S. panel reviewing ...
Tue, April 12, 2011
Novartis, Pfizer cancer drugs win U.S. panel vote
By Esha Dey
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - A U.S. advisory panel backed cancer drugs by Pfizer Inc and Novartis AG for treating a ...
Tue, April 12, 2011
US panel backs Pfizer's Sutent for pancreatic cancer
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - A U.S. advisory panel on Tuesday backed the use of Pfizer Inc's cancer drug Sutent to treat a ...
Tue, April 12, 2011
Citi ordered by panel to pay investors $54 million
By Joseph A. Giannone
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An arbitration panel ordered Citigroup Inc to pay a group of investors $54.1 million for losses ...
Mon, April 11, 2011
Fired general to head White House panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former top U.S. general in Afghanistan, who was fired when he enraged the White House by disparaging the Obama administration ...
Sun, April 10, 2011
Sharp suspends two TV panel plants as demand tumbles
By Isabel Reynolds
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp has suspended production at two Japanese liquid crystal display (LCD) panel plants until early May as it ...
Tue, April 05, 2011
U.S. panel says Optimer's antibiotic effective
By Esha Dey
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Optimer Pharmaceuticals Inc's experimental antibiotic was safe and effective in treating a bacterial infection that causes ...
Mon, April 04, 2011
U.S. oil-spill panel focuses on blowout preventer
By Kathy Finn
METAIRIE, Louisiana (Reuters) - An off-center drilling pipe in BP's doomed Macondo well disabled a blowout-preventer and prevented the fail-safe device ...
Thu, March 31, 2011
House panel head sees May vote on Fannie, Freddie
By Corbett B. Daly
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Financial Services Committee plans to vote in early May on a bill to wind down Fannie ...
Thu, March 31, 2011
U.S. panel finds limits to food dye data on behavior
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Current data has not established that artificial food dyes cause hyperactive behavior in the general population of children, a Food ...
Tue, March 29, 2011
Panel rules arrest illegal, grants killer a new trial
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – An appeals court has ordered a new trial for a Wausau man convicted of killing a Schofield teen in September 2007 ...
Sun, March 27, 2011
Former first lady gets spot on state panel
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) – A former first lady has been appointed to a state commission dealing with labor issues.
Governor Scott Walker appointed Laurie McCallum ...
Mon, March 21, 2011
Elections panel considers earlier fall primary
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) – The state elections panel will consider tomorrow whether to move the congressional, state, and county office primaries back from their current ...
Fri, March 18, 2011
U.S. nuclear panel urged to give daily Japan updates
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. lawmaker on Friday called on the top U.S. nuclear regulator to provide daily briefings assessing ...
Thu, March 17, 2011
Senate panel to step up TARP oversight: chairman
By Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate committee will step up oversight of the government's unpopular TARP bank bailout program now it is ...
Thu, March 10, 2011
LG Display says in 3D panel supply talks with Sony
SEOUL (Reuters) - Flat-screen maker LG Display said on Thursday it was in talks to provide 3D TV panels to Sony Corp, as it seeks ...
Wed, March 09, 2011
House panel OKs bill to kill Obama mortgage plan
By Corbett B. Daly
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday took a step toward killing President Barack Obama ...
Wed, March 09, 2011
House panel delves into Muslims radicalization
By Jeremy Pelofsky and David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Muslim Americans must do more to combat Islamic radicalization as al Qaeda targets them to help ...
Tue, March 08, 2011
U.S. panel rejects higher dose of Novartis lung drug
By Lisa Richwine
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Novartis AG failed to win support from a U.S. advisers for the highest proposed dose of ...
Sun, March 06, 2011
Japan panel finds no link to vaccines, deaths: report
TOKYO (Reuters) - A panel of experts at Japan's health ministry found no direct link between vaccines made by Pfizer Inc and Sanofi-Aventis SA ...
Fri, March 04, 2011
Treasury to congressional panel: TARP worked
By Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury's man in charge of the government's $700 billion financial bailout program has two words for ...
Thu, March 03, 2011
Senate panel clears rail antitrust bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation on Thursday that would strip freight railroads of their antitrust exemptions.
The measure in the Democratic-led ...
Tue, March 01, 2011
Senate panel sets hearing on Fed nominee Diamond
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Banking Committee said on Tuesday it would hold a hearing on the nomination of Nobel laureate Peter Diamond to be ...
Thu, February 24, 2011
Ending housing aid not answer: Senate panel aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican moves to kill several Obama administration programs aimed at keeping struggling borrowers in their homes will not make the foreclosure problem ...
Wed, February 23, 2011
House panel asks FDA documents in heparin probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators have failed to identify those responsible for the widespread contamination of the blood thinner heparin, three years after ...
Fri, February 18, 2011
"Flash crash" panel calls for market overhaul
By Roberta Rampton and Jonathan Spicer
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Regulators should stem the growing tide of anonymous stock-trading and consider imposing fees on ...
Fri, February 18, 2011
Obama to name Intel CEO to White House jobs panel
HILLSBORO, Oregon (Reuters) - Intel Corp Chief Executive Paul Otellini will be named to a panel of experts advising President Barack Obama on jobs, the ...
Wed, February 16, 2011
Republicans hit financial crisis panel for disunity
By Dave Clarke
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers on Wednesday criticized the commission that investigated the 2007-2009 financial crisis for not producing a report that ...
Tue, February 15, 2011
Panel approves apartment site plan
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – Plans for a 40-unit apartment complex along the Wisconsin River in Wausau are one vote away from being a done deal ...
Thu, February 10, 2011
Government panel may urge Huawei-3Leaf veto: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A government panel may urge President Barack Obama to veto Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's <HWT.UL> acquisition of 3Leaf Systems ...
Mon, February 07, 2011
U.S. panel approves final duties on China drill pipe
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. trade panel Monday approved combined final duties ranging up to nearly 450 percent on steel drill ...
Sun, February 06, 2011
Wausau panel to narrow square name options
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – The debate over what to call a popular block in downtown Wausau moves a step forward tonight.
The city's park ...
Sun, February 06, 2011
Fiscal panel co-chair blasts critics as "jerks"
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Any fiscal plan that fails to tackle military spending, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security is "a sparrow's belch ...
Thu, February 03, 2011
Senate panel backs patent overhaul bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to reduce the likelihood of massive damage awards in patent disputes took a step forward on Thursday with approval by ...
Thu, February 03, 2011
Sharp, Chimei Innolux in LCD panel tie-up: report
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Sharp Corp will partner with Taiwanese firm Chimei Innolux Corp to produce television-use LCD panels, the Nikkei business daily reported.
Sharp will ...
Mon, January 31, 2011
Vision screening of kids under 3 lacks data: panel
By Frederik Joelving
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A federal expert panel backtracked on Monday on its 2004 recommendation to screen all kids younger than ...
Wed, January 26, 2011
U.S. panel backs Abbott carotid stent for more patients
By Susan Heavey
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. health advisers backed Abbott Laboratories' RX Acculink carotid stent on Wednesday as another option for a ...
Wed, January 26, 2011
Panel chair challenges Obama's defense cuts
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A powerful Republican lawmaker criticized the Obama administration's plan to strip tens of billions of dollars from the ...
Tue, January 25, 2011
Panel says financial crisis avoidable
By Dave Clarke
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The financial crisis could have been avoided and was the result of poor decision making both in Washington and ...
Tue, January 25, 2011
Solar panel manufacturer considers Wausau plant
UNDATED (WSAU) A company that makes solar panels is moving its headquarters from California to Dane County. And they're considering several Wisconsin cities ...
Mon, January 24, 2011
Financial crisis panel refers cases to authorities: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel investigating the financial crisis has referred "multiple cases" of potential wrongdoing by "several financial industry figures" to ...
Fri, January 21, 2011
U.S. FDA panel backs Bayer imaging drug
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. advisers on Friday recommended approval of a Bayer AG imaging drug for use with magnetic resonance imaging scans of the ...
Fri, January 21, 2011
Obama names GE's Immelt head of new economic panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will name General Electric Co. Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt to head a new advisory panel focused on promoting economic ...
Thu, January 20, 2011
U.S. panel rejects Lilly dye for brain plaque
By Susan Heavey
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. advisers have rejected an Eli Lilly & Co imaging agent, saying more data is needed before ...
Wed, January 19, 2011
Not enough data on anemia drugs, transplants: panel
By Susan Heavey
BALTIMORE, Maryland (Reuters) - There is not enough data to prove widely used anemia drugs made by Amgen Inc and Johnson & Johnson ...
Tue, January 18, 2011
Panel OK's health savings account tax credit
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) – Wisconsinites who save money for their future health care are one step closer to getting a state tax break for it ...
Wed, January 12, 2011
Waste, Fraud, Abuse panel holds first meeting
MADISON (WRN) Governor Scott Walker’s Commission on Waste, Fraud and Abuse has a tall order – finding $300 million in savings for state taxpayers ...
Tue, January 11, 2011
Spill panel calls for offshore drilling reform
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Blaming the massive BP oil spill on government and industry complacency, a White House panel on Tuesday called for ...
Mon, January 03, 2011
Qualcomm to build $1 billion panel plant in Taiwan
TAIPEI (Reuters) - U.S.-based Qualcomm Inc will invest nearly $1 billion in Taiwan this year to build a display plant to tap growing ...
Sun, January 02, 2011
Solar-panel manufacturer moving to Wisconsin
UNDATED (WRN) A company that makes solar panels is moving from California to Wisconsin. Governor Jim Doyle’s office said Thursday that the “W ...
Tue, December 28, 2010
Hitachi says in talks with Hon Hai on panel tie-up
TOKYO (Reuters) - Hitachi Ltd is in talks with Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co about a tie-up in small liquid-crystal display panels, the ...
Thu, December 23, 2010
Senate panel to look into tanker data mixup
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold hearings next month into an Air Force document bungle roiling a transAtlantic ...
Wed, December 15, 2010
FDA panel urges new look at "silver" teeth fillings
By Susan Heavey
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - Enough uncertainty surrounds silver-colored metal dental fillings with mercury that U.S. regulators should add more cautions for ...
Wed, December 15, 2010
Critics to panel: ban amalgam dental fillings
By Susan Heavey
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - Critics of dental fillings that contain mercury said they should be banned or not implanted unless patients give ...
Fri, December 10, 2010
Duffy appointed to key House panel
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSAU) – Representative-elect Sean Duffy has been appointed to the House Financial Services committee.
“My commitment to helping bring good-paying jobs to ...
Thu, December 09, 2010
Panel urges Obama to work on deficit plan
By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The co-chairs of the deficit commission urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to launch negotiations with Congress early next ...
Wed, December 08, 2010
"Inept" moves preceded BP spill: U.S. panel co-chair
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP and its contractors made a series of decisions that were "breathtakingly inept" ahead of the largest offshore oil ...
Tue, December 07, 2010
Upton backed for House energy panel chair
By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representative Fred Upton was chosen by a Republican organizing panel on Tuesday to become the next ...
Tue, December 07, 2010
Bachus picked to chair financial panel: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representative Spencer Bachus of Alabama was picked on Tuesday to chair the House Financial Services Committee next year when Republicans take control ...
Tue, December 07, 2010
Rogers picked for House Appropriations panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican panel on Tuesday selected veteran Hal Rogers to chair the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee next year and ...
Mon, December 06, 2010
Orexigen to U.S. panel: diet pill safe for approval
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orexigen Therapeutics Inc's Contrave, the last of a trio of new weight-loss drugs, can effectively help patients shed ...
Mon, December 06, 2010
Breast milk banks OK for now but study needed: panel
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Breast milk banks should remain largely unregulated for now, U.S. health advisers said on Monday, wary of raising ...
Fri, December 03, 2010
BP says spill flow lower than government estimate: panel
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc believes the actual flow rate of its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may have ...
Fri, December 03, 2010
Deficit panel ideas to lack needed support: Conrad
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Recommendations of a deficit-reduction commission appointed by President Barack Obama will not win enough support from its members to force quick action ...
Thu, December 02, 2010
U.S. oil spill panel urges increased safety steps
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House oil spill commission on Thursday challenged offshore drillers to boost safety standards, detailing proposals for the ...
Wed, December 01, 2010
Deficit panel recalibrates, seeks more support
By Kevin Drawbaugh and Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A presidential commission trying to balance the budget on Wednesday softened a proposed tax overhaul to ...
Mon, November 29, 2010
Short on votes, deficit panel delays decision
By Kevin Drawbaugh and Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A presidential commission looking for ways to slash the budget deficit has postponed by two days ...
Mon, November 29, 2010
Deficit-cut panel says to meet on Wednesday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan presidential commission looking for ways to balance the budget said it will hold a press conference on Tuesday, but not ...
Sun, November 28, 2010
Debt-panel chairs make changes to draft: report
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The chairmen of the White House's debt-reduction commission are making changes to their draft proposal in a move broaden support before ...
Wed, November 24, 2010
BP made risky decisions before spill-panel document
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP <BP.L> made a series of decisions while drilling its doomed Macondo well that saved time but added ...
Fri, November 19, 2010
Panel recommends new UW Colleges chancellor
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) – A college president from New York could become the new chancellor of the UW Colleges and Extension system.
A committee of ...
Fri, November 19, 2010
Obama deficit panel wrestles healthcare "gorilla"
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A proposal to overhaul the costly Medicare and Medicaid health programs met opposition on Thursday in a closed-door meeting ...
Fri, November 19, 2010
Wausau panel recommends budget with tax increase
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – Wausau's finance committee has recommended a budget that will increase property tax rates next year.
The property tax rate will ...
Thu, November 18, 2010
U.S. panel narrowly backs Mela skin cancer device
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. medical advisers narrowly backed Mela Sciences Inc's experimental skin cancer detection device on Thursday, with some ...
Thu, November 18, 2010
House ethics panel recommends censure of Rangel
By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Veteran Representative Charles Rangel, Congress' former chief tax writer, should be censured for 11 ethics violations, many involving personal ...
Thu, November 18, 2010
Risk panel asked to weigh mortgage service spinoff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. financial risk council should consider requiring companies to divest their businesses that service securitized mortgages, Democratic lawmakers said in ...
Thu, November 18, 2010
Obama deficit panel wrestles healthcare "gorilla"
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A proposal to overhaul the costly Medicare and Medicaid health programs met opposition on Thursday in a closed-door meeting ...
Thu, November 18, 2010
Senate panel passes bill against piracy websites
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. agencies and officials would get new powers to go after foreign websites that sell counterfeit goods and ...
Thu, November 18, 2010
Mela defends skin cancer tool at FDA panel
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mela Sciences Inc defended its experimental skin cancer detection system before a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory ...
Wed, November 17, 2010
Panel recommends lofts for Federal Building
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – A St. Paul developer's plans to convert Wausau's Federal Building into artist-style lofts represents the best use for the ...
Wed, November 17, 2010
U.S. panel backs Dendreon's Provenge for Medicare
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. advisory panel backed Dendreon Corp's Provenge prostate cancer therapy on Wednesday, telling the Medicare insurance ...
Wed, November 17, 2010
Panel delays report on financial crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional panel delayed on Wednesday its final report on the causes and impact of the financial crisis to early next year ...
Wed, November 17, 2010
Panel positive on Merck vaccine for anal cancer
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Merck & Co's Gardasil vaccine appears effective for preventing anal cancer, members of a U.S. advisory panel said on ...
Wed, November 17, 2010
Panel urges renewed U.S. pressure on China on currency
By Paul Eckert
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should name China a currency manipulator and take on trade-distorting Chinese policies in the World Trade ...
Tue, November 16, 2010
China telecom briefly hijacked U.S. Web traffic: panel
By Diane Bartz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China Telecom sent incorrect routing information last April that resulted in Internet traffic to major corporate websites and U ...
Tue, November 16, 2010
Senate panel backs Fed nominee Diamond
By Emily Kaiser
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate committee approved the nomination of Nobel laureate Peter Diamond to the Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday over ...
Tue, November 16, 2010
Panel urges U.S. to label China currency manipulator
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should use all available tools, including labeling China a currency manipulator, to put pressure on Beijing ...
Mon, November 15, 2010
Deficit panel co-chair "hopeful" of plan approval
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A co-chairman of the presidential deficit commission said on Monday that he is hopeful commission members will approve recommendations to slash the ...
Thu, November 11, 2010
Defense faces more pressure from deficit panel
By Karen Jacobs
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Defense companies, already under pressure to cut costs and find new revenue streams, could face even more pressure in ...
Wed, November 10, 2010
Deficit panel targets Social Security and taxes
By Donna Smith and Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of a presidential commission proposed raising taxes and the retirement age among bold ideas on ...
Wed, November 10, 2010
Private panel urges shake-up in budget process
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A private panel called for a shake-up of the U.S. government's budget process that would set clear ...
Tue, November 09, 2010
No "grand compromise" likely from U.S. deficit panel
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. commission looking for ways to balance the federal budget is unlikely to agree on a comprehensive ...
Tue, November 09, 2010
Company errors, complacency preceded oil spill: panel
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Complacency at BP, as well as at Transocean Ltd and Halliburton, led to serious missteps prior to the rig ...
Mon, November 08, 2010
BP, firms did not shirk safety for money: panel
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House oil spill commission said on Monday it found no evidence to support accusations that the largest ...
Mon, November 08, 2010
U.S. panel mostly agrees with BP's oil spill probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House oil spill panel agrees with about 90 percent of the results of BP's internal investigation of the causes ...
Thu, November 04, 2010
Republicans scuffle over US House banking panel
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just days after winning control of the House of Representatives, Republican leaders on Thursday faced an internal fight over ...
Mon, November 01, 2010
U.S. appeals panel weighs sentence for Enron's Skilling
By Kristen Hays
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A three-judge panel on Monday weighed an appeal by imprisoned former Enron Corp Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling that could ...
Thu, October 28, 2010
Cement job played role in BP Macondo blowout: panel
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The foam cement that Halliburton Co. used to seal BP Plc's doomed Macondo well was unstable and may have contributed to ...
Wed, October 27, 2010
Vaccine panel expands whooping cough coverage
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - An independent U.S. advisory panel is amending its recommendations for booster vaccines to prevent whooping cough and expand ...
Wed, October 27, 2010
CDC panel votes to add meningitis booster dose
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A panel of federal vaccine experts narrowly voted to add a booster dose of a meningitis vaccine to teens at age 16 ...
Wed, October 13, 2010
Judges panel selected for Paula Abdul show
By James Hibberd
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS has announced the judges panel and host for Paula Abdul's upcoming dance competition series, "Live ...
Fri, October 08, 2010
Senate banking panel sets foreclosure hearing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Banking Committee will hold hearings after next month's elections to look into allegations that the nation's largest lenders ...
Thu, October 07, 2010
Congress ethics panel to hear Rangel case November 15
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trials in the Congress on alleged ethics violations against two prominent Democrats -- Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters -- will not be held until ...
Wed, October 06, 2010
W.House blocked BP oil spill estimates: Govt panel
By Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House in the spring blocked release of government worst-case estimates of the amount of oil spewing from ...
Mon, October 04, 2010
Flash crash panel should review brokers: Gensler
By Christopher Doering
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday urged a regulatory panel to consider making ...
Tue, September 28, 2010
Oil firms not cooperating with spill probe: panel
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies involved in the BP oil spill are failing to cooperate fully with a probe by a White House ...
Tue, September 28, 2010
Deficit-cut panel vows tough choices
By Kevin Drawbaugh and Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. commission looking for ways to balance the federal budget talked tough about fiscal ...
Mon, September 27, 2010
Oil companies must show ability to clean up spills: panel
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oil companies should be required to prove they can respond to major oil spills before they are allowed to ...
Thu, September 23, 2010
House panel to move forward on easing Cuba policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House of Representatives panel will vote next week on a bill relaxing trade with and travel to Cuba, with Democratic supporters ...
Thu, September 23, 2010
Senate panel backs Obama budget nominee
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel overwhelmingly approved President Barack Obama's pick for budget chief on Thursday, but it was unclear when the full ...
Wed, September 22, 2010
House panel backs China currency bill
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional panel turned up the pressure on China over the yuan on Friday, approving a bill that would ...
Wed, September 22, 2010
House panel votes Friday on China currency bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key panel in the House of Representatives has scheduled a business meeting on Friday to vote on legislation pressuring China to ...
Tue, September 21, 2010
Panel asks if FDA knew about secret J&J recall
By Ransdell Pierson
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. House committee probing recent massive recalls of Johnson & Johnson consumer medicines wants to know if ...
Tue, September 21, 2010
Senate panel approves UK and Australia trade treaties
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense industry trade agreements with Britain and Australia that have languished in the Senate for three years were approved by the Senate ...
Tue, September 21, 2010
House panel eyes action on China currency bill
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee could vote as early as Friday on a bill that would ...
Mon, September 20, 2010
U.S. panel backs Boehringer drug to reduce strokes
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - A U.S. advisory panel on Monday backed Boehringer Ingelheim's proposed drug to prevent strokes in people with a ...
Fri, September 17, 2010
Arena plunges, blames FDA panel over obesity drug
By Toni Clarke
BOSTON (Reuters) - Shares of Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc<ARNA.O> plunged anew on Friday as the company blamed a lack of understanding ...
Thu, September 16, 2010
Panel to review FBI work in anthrax case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional investigators plan to examine how the FBI determined that one scientist was responsible for the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, a lawmaker ...
Thu, September 16, 2010
Senate panel approves new arms treaty with Russia
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel approved a new strategic nuclear arms control treaty with Russia on Thursday, advancing one of President ...
Wed, September 15, 2010
Arena defends diet drug safety to U.S. panel
By Lisa Richwine
ADELPHI, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. drug reviewers criticized Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc's defense of a proposed weight-loss pill on Thursday, as ...
Wed, September 15, 2010
Bailout anger may hamper U.S. in future crisis: panel
By David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public anger over the Treasury's $700 billion bailout program may hamper the government's ability to respond to ...
Wed, September 15, 2010
U.S. panel splits on Abbott diet drug ban
ADELPHI, Maryland (Reuters) - A U.S. advisory panel was divided over whether to recommend banning Abbott Laboratories' controversial weight-loss drug on Wednesday, although most ...
Mon, September 13, 2010
U.S. to ask panel whether to ban Abbott diet drug
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials plan to ask expert advisers whether to pull Abbott Laboratories' controversial weight-loss drug Meridia off ...
Sun, September 12, 2010
Rich states should pay for Africa mineral advice: panel
By Adrian Croft
LONDON (Reuters) - Rich countries should pay for African governments to get advice on negotiating the best deals for exploiting their natural ...
Sat, September 11, 2010
Iceland panel wants charges over 2008 bank collapse
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland should bring negligence charges against former ministers over its banking collapse in 2008, a committee of the Althingi parliament said on ...
Wed, September 01, 2010
Crisis panel chair: Politics may have doomed Lehman
By David Lawder and Dave Clarke
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Officials appeared to have made a policy decision not to bail out Lehman Brothers, the head ...
Mon, August 30, 2010
Crisis panel to hear from Bernanke and Lehman's Fuld
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and bank regulator Sheila Bair will testify this week before a panel exploring the causes of the ...
Mon, August 30, 2010
Simpson stays on deficit panel: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alan Simpson, the Republican co-chairman of a commission on the U.S. budget deficit created by U.S. President Barack Obama, remains ...
Mon, August 30, 2010
U.N. climate panel urged to reform, stick to science
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. climate panel should only make predictions when it has solid evidence and should avoid policy ...
Fri, August 27, 2010
Panel offers Obama ideas on U.S. tax overhaul
By Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An expert panel named by President Barack Obama spelled out ideas to simplify the byzantine U.S. tax code ...
Thu, August 26, 2010
Japan Democrat panel wants BOJ to go step further on yen
By Leika Kihara
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese ruling party panel discussed currency intervention and recommended on Thursday that the government ask the Bank of ...
Wed, August 25, 2010
U.S. deficit panel chair stirs uproar over remark
By Caren Bohan and Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The co-chairman of a commission on the U.S. budget deficit came under fire on Wednesday ...
Wed, August 25, 2010
U.S. spill panel question drilling policy
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The BP oil spill was a massive "failure" in government oversight and administrations should be forced to consult with ...
Wed, August 25, 2010
State Panel Looking At Reducing Single-Use Plastics
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - A state panel is looking at ways to reduce the amount of plastic that gets used once, and then thrown away ...
Thu, August 19, 2010
Sharp to cut LCD panel production: report
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Sharp Corp <6753.T> will reduce LCD panel production for up to two months starting this month, adjusting supplies as TV inventories ...
Thu, August 19, 2010
FDA panel backs wider use of Eli Lilly's Cymbalta
By Susan Heavey
BETHESDA, Maryland (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co's antidepressant Cymbalta should be approved to help ease chronic pain in certain patients ...
Wed, August 11, 2010
Foreign firms helped by U.S. bailouts: panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. tactic of pouring money into ailing financial firms during the 2007-09 crisis helped many foreign banks whose governments should ...
Wed, August 11, 2010
Panel urges big thinking in "flash crash" response
By Jonathan Spicer and Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators said on Wednesday they are moving forward with technical fixes to the ...
Tue, August 10, 2010
U.N. panel on Gaza flotilla incident begins work
By Patrick Worsnip
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations sought to head off any potential clash with Israel over a U.N. inquiry into ...
Mon, August 09, 2010
Maxine Waters charged by House ethics panel
By Corbett B. Daly
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives ethics panel on Monday formally accused Democratic lawmaker Maxine Waters of three ...
Mon, August 02, 2010
Ethics panel says Rep. Waters broke House rules
By Corbett B. Daly
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Maxine Waters on Monday became the second Democrat in the House of Representatives in two weeks to be ...
Tue, July 27, 2010
FDA panel narrowly backs Medtronic spine device
By Lisa Richwine
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - Advisers on Tuesday narrowly backed an experimental Medtronic Inc spine implant that uses a protein to stimulate bone ...
Tue, July 27, 2010
House panel bucks Whouse, backs 2nd F-35 engine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House of Representatives subcommittee defied White House and Pentagon leaders on Tuesday by including $485 million in the proposed U.S ...
Mon, July 26, 2010
Panel falls from airport, strikes boy
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WSAU) – An interior decorative panel fell from a wall yesterday at Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, the second time this summer that ...
Mon, July 26, 2010
Decorative Panel Falls And Hits Teen At Mitchell Airport
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker says it’s not known why an interior decorative panel fell from a wall yesterday at ...
Tue, July 20, 2010
U.S. panel rejects Roche's Avastin for breast cancer
By Lisa Richwine
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - A U.S. panel dealt a blow to Roche Holding AG's multibillion-dollar cancer drug Avastin on Tuesday ...
Tue, July 20, 2010
Panel Moves Kagan Nomination To Full Senate
WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - The Senate Judiciary Committee is recommending Elena Kagan for confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.
On a vote of ...
Tue, July 20, 2010
Panel denies I.C. Willy's teen club license
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – A Wausau committee has denied an entertainment facility license for a bar owner who wanted to re-open his business as a ...
Thu, July 15, 2010
Senate panel sets hearing on BP-Lockerbie case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has scheduled a July 29 hearing into last year's release of a Libyan convicted ...
Wed, July 14, 2010
Bailed-out small banks face takeover risk: panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Smaller banks that got U.S. government bailout money are likely to run into trouble repaying it and may become vulnerable to ...
Tue, July 13, 2010
Senate Panel Postpones Consideration of Kagan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday delayed for one week a vote on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, but she remained on ...
Tue, July 13, 2010
Senate panel delays Kagan vote for one week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday delayed for one week a vote on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, but she remained on ...
Fri, July 09, 2010
WI's 1st Solar Panel Factory Coming Soon
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Wisconsin is about to get its first factory that makes panels for solar power.
Helios USA plans to start production early ...
Thu, July 08, 2010
Panel drops case against Justice Gableman
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) – The state Judicial Commission will stop pursuing a case against Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who was accused of lying in ...
Wed, July 07, 2010
Report: Concrete Panel May Not Have Been Up To Design
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - A concrete panel that fell from a downtown Milwaukee parking ramp and killed a teenager might not have been as strong ...
Sat, July 03, 2010
Spill panel to hold public meeting July 12-13
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A presidential panel to probe the cause of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and recommend new rules to ...
Thu, July 01, 2010
U.S. trade panel denies China steel product duties
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. trade panel on Thursday turned down an industry request to slap duties on hundreds of millions of dollars of ...
Wed, June 30, 2010
Senate panel will vet Fed nominees July 15
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate banking panel said on Wednesday it has scheduled hearings on the nominations of Janet Yellen to serve as Vice Chairman ...
Wed, June 30, 2010
House panel backs ending travel ban on Cuba
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional panel voted on Wednesday to lift a decades-old ban on travel to Cuba and remove other hurdles ...
Wed, June 30, 2010
Senate panel votes to end oil spill liability cap
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress on Wednesday took major steps to rein in Big Oil's offshore drilling practices, as one Senate panel ...
Tue, June 29, 2010
Crisis panel to examine Goldman, AIG ties
By Steve Eder and Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs and bailed out insurer American International Group face a rough two days of questioning ...
Tue, June 22, 2010
House panel invites J&J CEO to second recall hearing
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Congressional panel investigating Johnson & Johnson's widespread recall of consumer medicines wants the company's chief executive officer ...
Wed, June 16, 2010
WATCH: Panel approves rezoning for new armory
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – The Wisconsin Army National Guard won city support Tuesday night to build a $28 million armory and field maintenance shop on ...
Tue, June 15, 2010
U.S. food guidelines should focus on fat, panel says
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. nutritional guidelines should focus on keeping Americans from getting even fatter, experts ...
Mon, June 14, 2010
House Dems target Senate's credit ratings panel
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Democrats on Monday moved to kill a Senate plan to shake up the credit rating agency business, a ...
Mon, June 14, 2010
Kohl Discusses Kagan with Milwaukee Legal Panel
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - U.S. Senate Democrat Herb Kohl will find out Monday what a select group of Wisconsin legal experts thinks of Supreme ...
Fri, June 11, 2010
Panel probes marketing of Wyeth transplant drug
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House of Representatives committee is investigating reports that drugmaker Wyeth, now a unit of Pfizer Inc, promoted a transplant drug to ...
Wed, June 09, 2010
Six GOP lawmakers named to Wall St panel: Bachus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representative Spencer Bachus said in a statement on Wednesday that he and five other Republicans have been named as members of a ...
Sun, June 06, 2010
Israel rejects international panel to study raid: envoy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israel does not want an international panel to investigate its commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship but is talking with Washington ...
Fri, June 04, 2010
Panel to Recommend Closing a State Juvenile Detention Center
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - A special panel is expected this month to recommend the closing of one of the state’s 2 juvenile detention centers ...
Fri, June 04, 2010
Deficit panel eyes another bite at healthcare
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Concern over rising U.S. debt could force lawmakers to take another crack at reining in healthcare costs long ...
Wed, June 02, 2010
Buffett fails to wow crisis panel on credit raters
By Elinor Comlay, Kim Dixon and Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Oracle of Omaha, for once, may have failed to impress his audience ...
Fri, May 28, 2010
Senate panel votes new Iran constraints
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Armed Services Committee voted to require Pentagon contractors to certify that they are not doing any banned business with Iran ...
Thu, May 27, 2010
GOP role unclear on Wall Street reform panel: Gregg
By Roberta Rampton and Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers may not have much sway over a final financial regulation bill that could cut ...
Thu, May 27, 2010
U.S. panel to review two proposed Avastin uses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. advisory panel will meet in July to review two proposed new uses for Roche Holding AG's blockbuster cancer ...
Wed, May 26, 2010
House panel backs bill prompted by Toyota saga
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation enhancing the power of regulators to force auto recalls, create rules to prevent unintended acceleration, and require quiet-running ...
Wed, May 26, 2010
Buffett, Moody's CEO to testify to crisis panel
By Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Warren Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, will testify next week before the U.S. panel examining ...
Tue, May 25, 2010
BP had warning signs before Gulf blast: panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc told congressional investigators on Tuesday that pressure tests on a drill pipe showed a fundamental mistake hours before the deadly ...
Tue, May 25, 2010
Twelve senators named to Wall Street reform panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twelve senior U.S. senators, including Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd and Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln, were named on Tuesday ...
Mon, May 24, 2010
Twelve senators to be on Wall Street bill panel: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate was expected to appoint 12 senators, including banking committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, to a conference committee with the House of ...
Mon, May 24, 2010
Shelby, Chambliss to serve on Wall Street panel: aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican senators Richard Shelby and Saxby Chambliss will serve on a conference committee tasked with finalizing a sweeping rewrite of financial regulations ...
Sat, May 22, 2010
Obama: Oil panel will not interfere with Justice probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said the oil spill commission he formally unveiled on Saturday must ensure that it does not disrupt "any ongoing ...
Thu, May 20, 2010
Toyota effort criticized by House panel
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats sharply criticized efforts by Toyota Motor Corp to investigate whether faulty electronics are linked to unintended acceleration ...
Wed, May 19, 2010
House panel defies Pentagon on fighter engine
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional committee, slighting the Pentagon for a fourth straight year, cleared continued work on an alternate ...
Wed, May 19, 2010
House panel probes personal genetic tests
By Lisa Richwine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House of Representatives committee is investigating personal genetic testing kits after one company attempted to sell its test ...
Mon, May 17, 2010
Market watchdog panel to meet on market plunge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A panel advising U.S. market regulators will meet on May 24 to discuss the mysterious market plunge, the Securities and Exchange ...
Mon, May 17, 2010
Obama to create panel to probe oil spill
By Jeff Mason
HOUSTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will create a commission to investigate the cause of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, evaluate ...
Mon, May 17, 2010
Senate panel asks govt criminal probe of oil spill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Environment and Public Works committee head Barbara Boxer on Monday asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into the ...
Mon, May 17, 2010
MN Legislative Panel: No Study on Tax Reciprocity
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WTAQ) - A legislative panel in Minnesota said no during the weekend to study the possible return of income tax reciprocity with ...
Fri, May 14, 2010
House panel probes offshore drilling oversight
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the wake of the massive Gulf oil spill, a U.S. House of Representatives panel on Friday launched ...
Thu, May 13, 2010
Senate panel sets hearing on market plunge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Securities, Insurance and Investment Subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for May 20 to examine the causes of last week's ...
Thu, May 13, 2010
Senate panel approves money for Afghan, Iraq wars
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate committee on Thursday approved another $33.5 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq this year ...
Tue, May 11, 2010
WHO panel to review H1N1 pandemic status in coming weeks
GENEVA (Reuters) - An expert panel advising the World Health Organization on pandemics will review the status of the H1N1 virus later this month or ...
Mon, May 10, 2010
Exchange execs to address Congress panel on sell-off
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior executives from NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq OMX Group Inc and CME Group Inc will testify to a congressional panel on Tuesday on ...
Fri, May 07, 2010
Benefits trump risks of rotavirus vaccine: panel
By Lisa Richwine
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - Benefits from rotavirus vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Merck & Co Inc outweigh any risk from recently discovered ...
Thu, April 29, 2010
House panel mulls bill to ease Cuban embargo
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Business and human rights groups urged Congress on Thursday to ease the decades-old embargo on Cuba by passing a ...
Wed, April 28, 2010
Prevent Alzheimer's? No evidence you can: panel
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fish oil, exercise and doing puzzles may all be good for the brain but there ...
Wed, April 28, 2010
Congress panel backs flood insurance overhaul
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to overhaul the troubled National Flood Insurance Program, which covers more than five million homes and businesses ...
Mon, April 26, 2010
Iraq election turmoil as panel invalidates votes
By Suadad al-Salhy and Ahmed Rasheed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A review panel on Monday invalidated votes cast for 52 candidates in Iraq's election, throwing ...
Sun, April 25, 2010
Japan panel says OK not to charge PM in scandal: report
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese judicial panel ruled on Monday that prosecutors' decision not to charge Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama over suspected falsification of his ...
Fri, April 23, 2010
Senate panel called Goldman trader before SEC suit
By Dan Margolies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate investigations panel looking into Goldman Sachs' role in the financial crisis subpoenaed the investment bank as early ...
Thu, April 22, 2010
Senate panel passes budget plan
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Thursday passed a budget that would cut near-term deficits more quickly than the plan proposed ...
Wed, April 21, 2010
Radiation for prostate cancer lacks data: U.S. panel
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is not enough evidence to sort out the effect of various radiation treatments for prostate cancer patients, especially ...
Wed, April 21, 2010
Senate panel OKs bank swap ban in overhaul effort
By Andy Sullivan and Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Wednesday voted to ban banks from the lucrative swaps market, one of ...
Tue, April 20, 2010
Senate panel sets hearing on China yuan policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate Banking subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday to examine the impact of China's exchange rate practices on U ...
Tue, April 20, 2010
FDA should regulate salt, panel says
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration should regulate the amount of salt added to foods to help Americans cut their ...
Mon, April 19, 2010
Iraqi panel orders vote recount in Baghdad
By Ahmed Rasheed and Suadad al-Salhy
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi election review panel on Monday ordered a recount of votes cast in Baghdad in ...
Sun, April 18, 2010
U.S. Medicare panel to weigh prostate treatments
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At a time of growing debate over prostate cancer treatments, U.S. Medicare officials will take a closer look ...
Thu, April 15, 2010
Panel says regulators sparred while WaMu burned
By Dan Margolies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the summer of 2008, just months before giant mortgage lender Washington Mutual Bank flamed out and became the ...
Tue, April 13, 2010
Senate panel chief vows clamp-down on swaps
By Charles Abbott
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The unregulated $450 trillion market in over-the-counter derivatives should expect "vigorous reform" that includes reporting of all trades and ...
Wed, March 31, 2010
Greenspan, ex-Citi CEO to answer to crisis panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and ex-Citigroup <C.N> Chief Executive Chuck Prince will appear next month before a U.S ...
Tue, March 30, 2010
Assembly Panel Approves Raw Milk Sales Bill
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - A state Assembly panel voted 8 to 1 Tuesday to let farmers sell raw milk directly to customers at least through ...
Wed, March 24, 2010
U.S. panel sees anemia drug risks in kidney patients
By Susan Heavey
BALTIMORE, Maryland (Reuters) - Use of controversial anemia drugs made by Amgen Inc and Johnson & Johnson at high levels likely worsen heart ...
Tue, March 23, 2010
Panel disagrees on lawmaker's punishment
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) – A state panel recommended no legislative punishment today for Representative Jeff Wood, who’s charged with three O-W-I’s in the ...
Sun, March 21, 2010
Senate panel plans financial reform vote Monday
By Kevin Drawbaugh and Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee was on track on Monday to approve landmark financial regulatory ...
Thu, March 18, 2010
Panel backs new use of Boston Scientific devices
By Lisa Richwine
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (Reuters) - Boston Scientific Corp on Thursday moved closer to winning U.S. clearance to promote implanted cardiac devices ...
Thu, March 18, 2010
Senate panel backs financial reform bill
By Kevin Drawbaugh and Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Monday, approved landmark financial regulatory reform legislation, pushing the ...
Wed, March 17, 2010
House panel to explore Lehman examiner report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House panel will hold a hearing exploring regulatory failures leading up to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, after a court-appointed examiner ...
Tue, March 16, 2010
Tax cuts for wealthy should expire: panel chair
By Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most House Democrats back President Barack Obama's plan to let tax cuts for the wealthy expire this year ...
Tue, March 16, 2010
Senate panel seen approving financial reform
By Kevin Drawbaugh and Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new financial reform bill introduced in the Senate will likely be approved at the committee ...
Fri, March 12, 2010
House panel to consider healthcare bill Monday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives Budget Committee on Monday will consider a reconciliation bill that Democrats hope clears the way for final congressional ...
Thu, March 11, 2010
U.S. safety panel says big Vytorin study can go on
By Ransdell Pierson
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck & Co on Thursday said an independent data safety monitoring board has approved continuation of a big study ...
Thu, March 11, 2010
Toyota hands over 2006 dissident memo to U.S. panel
By Chang-Ran Kim, Asia autos correspondent
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor said on Thursday it has handed over to a U.S. congressional committee a ...
Wed, March 10, 2010
Vaginal birth after cesarean underused: panel
By Frederik Joelving
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you're pregnant and have had a cesarean section before, chances are you'll have one ...
Fri, March 05, 2010
Congressional panel to examine campaign spending
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top lawmaker said on Friday he is holding a hearing to examine the need for legislative reform after the Supreme Court ...
Fri, March 05, 2010
FDA panel sees user errors with insulin pumps
By Lisa Richwine
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - Diabetics who wear insulin pumps appear more likely to experience problems from improper use than a device defect ...
Fri, March 05, 2010
House panel: Toyota shows no proof yet of study
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp has failed to support statements of top executives that the automaker has rigorously evaluated electronic throttles ...
Thu, March 04, 2010
House panel approves Armenian genocide measure
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional panel voted on Thursday to label as "genocide" the World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces, despite pressure ...
Wed, March 03, 2010
Panel Delays Action On Expulsion Of Trouble Lawmaker
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - A special panel delayed action Wednesday on a request to have the Wisconsin Assembly expel Representative Jeff Wood for his 3 ...
Mon, March 01, 2010
FDA panel backs Bristol transplant drug
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's experimental kidney transplant drug belatacept should be approved to give doctors and patients more treatment ...
Mon, March 01, 2010
FDA panel to target menthol cigarettes
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. scientific panel this month will weigh the controversial role of popular menthol flavoring in cigarettes in ...
Mon, March 01, 2010
U.S. Medicare panel urges insurer payment cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare should cut U.S. government payments to private insurers and home healthcare providers, an advisory panel said in nonbinding recommendations released ...
Fri, February 26, 2010
Ethics panel clears 7 House members on earmarks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House ethics committee on Friday cleared seven lawmakers of improperly or illegally considering campaign contributions when steering earmarks amounting to hundreds ...
Fri, February 26, 2010
Congress panel cites evidence of Toyota concealment
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel has found evidence Toyota routinely withheld company records it should have turned over ...
Fri, February 26, 2010
Obama rounds out deficit panel with Honeywell chief
By Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama filled out his commission to tackle the U.S. deficit on Friday, appointing the head of ...
Fri, February 26, 2010
Obama names four new members to deficit panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama named four new members to a panel to tackle the U.S. deficit on Friday, the White House said ...
Fri, February 26, 2010
U.N. to create science panel to review IPCC
By Sunanda Creagh
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - An independent board of scientists is to review the work of a U.N. climate panel, whose ...
Thu, February 25, 2010
Rangel says ethics panel ruled against him
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Charles Rangel, the top tax writer in the U.S. Congress, was admonished by a congressional ethics committee for taking corporate-funded ...
Wed, February 24, 2010
Senate panel seeks expanded auto review
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate committee on Wednesday asked a government watchdog to expand its review of how regulators handled recent Toyota ...
Tue, February 23, 2010
Three Senate Democrats named to deficit panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic senators Dick Durbin, Max Baucus and Kent Conrad will serve on a presidential commission to tackle the country's stubborn budget ...
Tue, February 23, 2010
Senate panel mulls narrow, weak, Volcker rule
By Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Banking Committee members are considering a narrow version of the so-called Volcker rule, which was proposed ...
Mon, February 22, 2010
British homeopathy funding is "bad medicine": panel
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should end its state funding for homeopathic treatments because they are "scientifically implausible" and work no better than ...
Thu, February 18, 2010
Senate panel mulls watered down "Volcker rule"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Banking Committee members are considering a watered down version of the 'Volcker rule' unveiled last month by the Obama administration to ...
Thu, February 18, 2010
Honeywell CEO eyed for Obama deficit panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is strongly considering naming the chief executive of Honeywell International, a union president and a former vice chairwoman of ...
Tue, February 09, 2010
Republicans may join Obama deficit panel: Boehner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Republican leader John Boehner said on Tuesday he was considering appointing Republicans to President Barack Obama's planned deficit commission and ...
Mon, February 08, 2010
Panel Aims To Show UW Employees Need Raises
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - A new panel will try to convince legislators that salaries for University of Wisconsin employees need to be raised. System president ...
Fri, February 05, 2010
House panel to take up Armenian genocide bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional panel will vote next month on a resolution to label the World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces ...
Fri, February 05, 2010
Obama to create debt panel next week: White House
By Alister Bull
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will take a step toward toughening U.S. fiscal discipline next week by creating a panel ...
Tue, January 26, 2010
Senate panel to hear from Volcker on bank plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Volcker, a member of the Obama administration's economic team and a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, will testify on ...
Tue, January 26, 2010
Senate defeats proposed deficit panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday rejected a proposed bipartisan task force to reduce record budget deficits, but the White House said ...
Tue, January 26, 2010
Senate defeats proposed deficit panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Tuesday rejected the creation of a bipartisan task force to try to bring down the record U.S. budget ...
Tue, January 26, 2010
France should denounce, ban Muslim face veils: panel
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor
PARIS (Reuters) - France's National Assembly should pass a resolution denouncing full Muslim face veils and then vote the ...
Mon, January 25, 2010
AG Van Hollen: Racine Panel Broke Open Meeting Law
RACINE, Wis. (WTAQ) - A city panel in Racine apparently broke the state’s Open Meeting Law when it took an e-mail poll of its ...
Sat, January 23, 2010
Obama urges creation of U.S. deficit panel
By Caren Bohan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on the U.S. Congress on Saturday to create a bipartisan panel that would look ...
Fri, January 22, 2010
Sale of helium poses supply risk, panel finds
By JoAnne Allen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The sell-off of the federal strategic helium reserve has driven up demand for the vital element and poses a ...
Fri, January 22, 2010
Senate panel to hold hearing on Obama bank limits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Banking Committee intends to hold a hearing on President Barack Obama's proposals to limit banks' risk taking, a spokeswoman ...
Wed, January 20, 2010
Republicans criticize bipartisan debt panel
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers on Wednesday blasted Democratic plans to set up a bipartisan debt-reduction commission, underlining the political challenges that ...
Mon, January 18, 2010
UN panel "regrets" exaggeration of Himalayan thaw
OSLO (Reuters) - The U.N. panel of climate scientists expressed regret on Wednesday for exaggerating how quickly Himalayan glaciers are melting in a report ...
Sat, January 16, 2010
House panel asks Paulson to testify in AIG probe
By Jasmin Melvin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House panel slated to look into the collapse and bailout of insurer American International Group has widened its ...
Wed, January 13, 2010
U.S. panel urges approval of Recordati blood drug
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - A U.S. medical advisory panel unanimously urged U.S. approval of Recordati SpA's proposed drug for a rare ...
Wed, January 13, 2010
Panel Formed To Study Concerns Of Selling Raw Milk
MADISON, Wis. (Midwest Communications) - Wisconsin’s agriculture secretary has formed a panel to study the safety concerns of selling raw milk to consumers – and ...
Wed, January 13, 2010
Financial crisis panel to call Greenspan, Cox
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators admitted to failing to head off the 2008 financial crisis as they appeared before a panel ...
Tue, January 12, 2010
Senate panel moves to muzzle consumer watchdog
By Kevin Drawbaugh and Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's proposal to create a new U.S. agency to protect financial consumers ...
Tue, January 12, 2010
Swiss panel votes against taking Guantanamo inmates
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland should not take in any more detainees from the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison owing to heightened security concerns, a parliamentary ...
Mon, January 11, 2010
Assembly Panel Kills Bill To Force More Night College Classes
MADISON, Wis. (Midwest Communications) - A state Assembly panel has killed a bill to make all Wisconsin technical college courses meet at night every 3 ...
Wed, January 06, 2010
Johnson seen taking over as Senate banking panel chief
By Karey Wutkowski and Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Dakota Democratic Senator Tim Johnson, a champion of community banks and credit card companies, is ...
Wed, January 06, 2010
Johnson seen taking over as Senate banking panel chief
By Karey Wutkowski and Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Dakota Democratic Senator Tim Johnson, a champion of community banks and credit card companies, is ...
Wed, December 30, 2009
U.S. panel OKs duties on China steel in record case
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. trade panel gave final approval on Wednesday to duties ranging from about 10 to 16 percent ...
Wed, December 23, 2009
Senate panel OKs two top trade nominees
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Finance Committee gave its support on Wednesday to President Barack Obama's nominees for two key trade ...
Wed, December 23, 2009
Senate panel OKs Lael Brainard for Treasury post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday approved Lael Brainard to become the Treasury Department's top global diplomat, a job that would ...
Tue, December 22, 2009
U.S. financial crisis panel sets first hearings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. commission created by Congress to investigate the financial crisis has scheduled its first public hearings for January 13 and ...
Tue, December 22, 2009
Ex-DOT Attorney May Appeal After Panel Ruling
MADISON (WRN) - The state Transportation Department’s former chief attorney says he might go to court, after an employment panel refused to give him ...
Mon, December 21, 2009
Panel Says State Must Be More Aggressive In Fight Against CWD
MADISON (WRN) - A panel that studied Wisconsin’s problem with chronic wasting disease in the deer herd said the state must get a lot ...
Thu, December 17, 2009
U.S. panel narrowly backs Photocure cancer test drug
By Lisa Richwine
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - A U.S. advisory panel on Thursday narrowly backed Photocure ASA's proposed imaging drug to help detect ...
Thu, December 17, 2009
Senate panel approves two Obama nominees for FTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Thursday approved President Barack Obama's picks to fill out the Federal Trade Commission, Julie Brill and Edith ...
Thu, December 17, 2009
TV panel: Comedy making a comeback
By James Hibberd
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - For once, the TV writers were content.
A quartet of showrunners said Wednesday that the business is ...
Wed, December 16, 2009
Senate panel "deeply concerned" by F-35 costs
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said it was "deeply concerned" about growing costs and apparent delays in ...
Wed, December 16, 2009
Panel Accuses Lawmaker Of Bringing "Disrepute" On Assembly
MADISON (WRN) - A special committee drafted a resolution Tuesday which accuses State Representative Jeff Wood of bringing “disrepute” on the Assembly. But the panel ...
Wed, December 16, 2009
Expulsion panel says Wood brought "disrepute" on state legislature
MADISON (WSAU) A special committee drafted a resolution yesterday which accuses State Representative Jeff Wood of bringing “disrepute” on the Assembly. But the panel ...
Tue, December 15, 2009
Senate panel backs Bernanke for second term
By Mark Felsenthal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's nomination to a second term cleared a Senate panel on Thursday despite some ...
Tue, December 15, 2009
U.S. panel backs wider use of AstraZeneca's Crestor
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - AstraZeneca won a U.S. panel's support on Tuesday for its bid to promote the cholesterol-lowering pill Crestor to people ...
Tue, December 15, 2009
Special panel to tackle MLB's on-field issues
By Larry Fine
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has appointed a committee to discuss and offer advice on issues including ...
Tue, December 15, 2009
Senate panel to vote on Bernanke Thursday morning
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee will vote on the nomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second four-year term ...
Fri, December 11, 2009
U.S. panel to weigh safety of AstraZeneca's Crestor
By Lisa Richwine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators see benefits to using an AstraZeneca Plc cholesterol drug in a vast new group of patients ...
Wed, December 09, 2009
U.S. oversight panel chief: TARP not a "slush fund"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury must seek Congressional approval if it wants to funnel some of its $700 billion bailout fund to jobs programs that ...
Tue, December 08, 2009
U.S. panel sees higher skin risk with some MRI drugs
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. advisers felt MRI imaging drugs from GE Healthcare and Covidien appear to carry a higher risk of a serious ...
Tue, December 08, 2009
Senate panel sets December 17 vote on Bernanke
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Banking Committee said on Tuesday it will vote December 17 on the confirmation of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for ...
Tue, December 08, 2009
U.S. panel says Zhu Zhu hamster toys are safe
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Zhu Zhu toy hamsters do not violate U.S. standards for levels of the chemical antimony, the U.S. Consumer Product ...
Wed, December 02, 2009
Doyle Creates Panel To Put Together Medical E-Records
MADISON (WRN) - A new state board will set up a system in which hospitals and clinics can share medical records electronically. Governor Jim Doyle ...
Wed, December 02, 2009
Dubai World to meet creditor panel on debt crisis
By Alistair Lyon
DUBAI (Reuters) - Government-owned Dubai World will meet its main creditors next week to discuss a request to delay payment on $26 ...
Mon, November 30, 2009
U.S. tax reform panel delays recommendations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has delayed a report to draw up options for simplifying the tax code and reforming the corporate tax system ...
Tue, November 24, 2009
Panel To Review Polk Co. Sheriff's Shooting
POLK COUNTY (WRN) - A special panel will meet December 3rd to review the recent shooting of a man by a Polk County sheriff’s ...
Fri, November 20, 2009
Ethics panel admonishes Obama Senate replacement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Roland Burris, saying he had been less than candid about his gubernatorial appointment ...
Thu, November 19, 2009
House panel OKs plan to open Fed policy to audits
By Mark Felsenthal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel on Thursday approved a measure to open the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decisions ...
Thu, November 19, 2009
FDA panel votes against new bug-based flu vaccine
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
BETHESDA, Maryland (Reuters) - More safety data would be needed before a new type of influenza vaccine made ...
Wed, November 18, 2009
Congress panel backs big bank break-up power
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Financial Services Committee voted on Wednesday to approve a proposal that would empower government regulators ...
Tue, November 17, 2009
BofA knew of Merrill pain in November: House panel
By Rachelle Younglai and Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional panel accused Bank of America Corp <BAC.N> on Tuesday of knowing about Merrill ...
Tue, November 17, 2009
U.S. panel suggests stricter trial safety margins: Cerus
(Reuters) - Blood-safety products maker Cerus Corp said an U.S. advisory committee recommended more stringent safety margins for a late-stage trial of its intercept ...
Mon, November 16, 2009
FDA wants panel to probe Pfizer vaccine efficacy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc's next- generation Prevnar vaccine missed some key goals in a study of its effectiveness, U.S. reviewers said in ...
Fri, November 13, 2009
Panel Rules Dismissal Of Complaint Against Gableman
MADISON (WRN) - A 3 judge panel recommends the state Supreme Court dismiss a complaint which accuses Justice Michael Gableman of false statements in a ...
Fri, November 13, 2009
Panel passes broadband access initiatives
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – Marathon County may allow private wireless Internet providers to use its existing public safety radio towers to expand broadband Internet access ...
Thu, November 12, 2009
State Panel Tosses Complaint From Justice Dept. Supervisor
MADISON (WRN) - A state panel has thrown out a complaint from a former Justice Department supervisor who said she was demoted for blowing the ...
Mon, November 09, 2009
China praises U.S. trade panel for rejecting probe
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Monday praised a U.S. trade panel's decision to reject an investigation into imports of Chinese steel fasteners, saying ...
Thu, November 05, 2009
Senate panel approves Democratic climate bill
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A controversial climate change bill cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, allowing President Barack ...
Wed, November 04, 2009
Lawmaker's expulsion panel meets for first time
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) – A special state committee held its first meeting today on the proposed expulsion of State Representative Jeff Wood of Chippewa Falls ...
Tue, November 03, 2009
Ethics panel probes NY governor's Yankee tickets
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An ethics panel is investigating allegations that New York Governor David Paterson got free tickets to the World Series in violation ...
Mon, November 02, 2009
U.S. appeals panel weighs Stanford "clawback" claims
By Kathy Finn
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals panel had tough questions on Monday for the receiver in Allen Stanford's civil ...
Fri, October 30, 2009
Trade panel approves antidumping probe into China pipe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. trade panel on Friday approved a Commerce Department investigation that could lead to new duties of nearly 100 percent ...
Thu, October 29, 2009
Senate panel approves Iran fuel sanctions bill
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to impose sanctions on companies providing Iran with gasoline and limit other business dealings with the country ...
Thu, October 29, 2009
House panel OKs bill creating consumer agency
By Diane Bartz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives panel approved a bill on Thursday to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency ...
Wed, October 28, 2009
UWSP panel begins search for new chancellor
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAU) – A 19-member panel that will help pick a new chancellor at UW-Stevens Point met for the first time Wednesday.
The ...
Wed, October 28, 2009
House panel OKs Iranian fuel sanctions bill
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill that would give the Obama administration power to impose sanctions on a broad array of companies involved ...
Wed, October 28, 2009
Marshfield man to serve on federal health panel
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSAU) – A Marshfield health practitioner has been tapped to serve on a federal public health panel.
Greg Nycz is the executive ...
Tue, October 27, 2009
Congressional panel backs new rules for hedge funds
By Kevin Drawbaugh and Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators would be able to peer into the secretive world of hedge funds and ...
Tue, October 27, 2009
U.S. panel: More study on Human Genome anthrax drug
By Lisa Richwine
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Animal data suggests a proposed Human Genome Sciences Inc drug may help people exposed to anthrax but ...
Tue, October 27, 2009
House panel approves hedge fund bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key U.S. congressional committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill on Tuesday to regulate advisers to hedge funds and ...
Tue, October 27, 2009
Panel formed to consider lawmaker's expulsion
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) – A bi-partisan panel has been formed to consider expelling embattled state Representative Jeff Wood for being caught driving impaired three times ...
Tue, October 27, 2009
Senate panel tries bypassing climate bill boycott
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats who control a key U.S. Senate panel said they would begin debating a climate change bill on ...
Fri, October 23, 2009
House panel to hear Geithner on reforms: aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other regulators will testify next Thursday before a House of Representatives committee on systemic risk ...
Fri, October 23, 2009
U.S. blocks Canada/Mexico call for WTO panel in meat row
By Jonathan Lynn
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States blocked on Friday requests by Canada and Mexico for World Trade Organization experts to examine new ...
Thu, October 22, 2009
State panel may remove Rep. Wood from office for repeated OWIs
MADISON (WSAU) State Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan is in the process of forming a special committee to decide whether Representative Jeff Wood should be ...
Thu, October 22, 2009
House panel backs financial consumer watchdog
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key U.S. congressional committee on Thursday voted to support creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, approving legislation that had ...
Wed, October 21, 2009
Second U.S. House panel votes for swaps regulation
By Charles Abbott
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Agriculture Committee approved a bill on Wednesday for federal regulation of over-the-counter derivatives -- an Obama administration goal ...
Wed, October 21, 2009
Glaxo says U.S. panel recommends Cervarix vaccine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. advisory panel has recommended the use of GlaxoSmithKline PLC's Cervarix vaccine to prevent cervical cancer in girls and ...
Wed, October 21, 2009
Consumer watchdog nears House panel approval
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional committee is likely on Wednesday to endorse the creation of a financial watchdog agency to ...
Tue, October 20, 2009
Congress panel trims credit rating agency bill
By Kevin Drawbaugh and Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional committee has dropped a key provision from a financial reform bill aimed ...
Thu, October 15, 2009
Senate panel votes to bar drug "pay for delay"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel voted on Thursday to bar drug companies from paying generic drugmakers to delay bringing their cheaper medicines to market ...
Thu, October 15, 2009
Some on Nobel Peace panel reluctant on Obama: report
OSLO (Reuters) - Most members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee initially argued against awarding the 2009 Peace Prize to President Barack Obama before agreeing to ...
Thu, October 15, 2009
House panel approves new OTC derivatives rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New rules for the largely unpoliced, $450-trillion over-the-counter derivatives market were approved by a key congressional committee on Thursday in a win ...
Tue, October 13, 2009
House panel extends financial reform sessions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives Financial Services Committee's working sessions on financial regulation reform bills will be extended into next week, said ...
Tue, October 13, 2009
Senate panel backs sweeping healthcare overhaul
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key U.S. Senate committee endorsed a broad healthcare overhaul Tuesday, gaining the support of an influential Republican and delivering President ...
Mon, October 12, 2009
Senator says panel to pass climate bill soon
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A key senator on Monday said the committee she leads should approve a bill to tackle global warming ...
Thu, October 08, 2009
U.S. Senate panel votes to extend security law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate Judiciary Committee, drawing criticism from both liberals and conservatives, voted on Thursday to extend expiring provisions of a post-September 11 ...
Wed, October 07, 2009
U.S. to seek WTO panel over EU poultry ban: diplomats
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States is expected to request a World Trade Organization panel to end a long-running dispute with the European Union over ...
Fri, October 02, 2009
BofA's CEO search panel heavy on Fleet veterans
By Joe Rauch
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp's <BAC.N> six-member CEO search committee includes three former directors of FleetBoston Financial ...
Wed, September 30, 2009
UK panel sets Kraft November 9 deadline for Cadbury bid
By Rhys Jones and Victoria Howley
LONDON (Reuters) - Kraft Foods Inc <KFT.N> <KFT.F> has until November 9 to make an offer for ...
Tue, September 29, 2009
Senate panel rejects public healthcare option
By John Whitesides and Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Tuesday rejected a government-run "public" insurance option as part of a broad ...
Fri, September 25, 2009
Senate panel awaits report before health vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic hopes for a quick Senate Finance Committee vote on a broad U.S. healthcare overhaul were dashed on Monday as budget ...
Thu, September 24, 2009
House panel delays Moody's hearing to Sept 30
By Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House panel postponed a Thursday hearing to examine the credit rating agencies because of new information ...
Sun, September 20, 2009
U.S. Senate panel backs health insurance requirement
By John Whitesides and Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel considering a sweeping healthcare overhaul upheld a requirement on Thursday that ...
Thu, September 17, 2009
Financial crisis panel might call Paulson-chairman
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson might be among witnesses called to testify by Congress' Financial Crisis Inquiry ...
Wed, September 16, 2009
House panel OKs bill, paving way for Dish re-entry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A court injunction barring DISH Network Corp from broadcasting out-of-market programing would be lifted under a satellite and cable TV reauthorization legislation ...
Wed, September 16, 2009
Senate panel releases healthcare plan without public option
By Donna Smith and John Whitesides
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Max Baucus unveiled his plan for a 10-year, $856 billion healthcare overhaul on ...
Tue, September 15, 2009
Wausau panel OK's rezoning for future Walgreen's
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – Wausau’s Plan Commission has agreed to rezone four-and-a-half acres at the corner of 17th and Stewart Avenues to make room ...
Tue, September 15, 2009
Rockefeller says can't back Senate panel bill yet
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John Rockefeller, a Finance Committee member and a strong backer of a government-run insurance option, said on Tuesday he ...
Thu, September 10, 2009
Senate panel seeks end to F-22 export ban
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel urged the Air Force on Thursday to start developing an export model of its F-22 Raptor ...
Thu, September 10, 2009
U.S. panel backs HPV vaccine for males
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - Merck & Co's cervical cancer vaccine is safe and effective for preventing genital warts in males ages 9 to 26, a ...
Wed, September 09, 2009
U.S. panel backs Merck HPV vaccine for males
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - Merck & Co's cervical cancer vaccine is safe and effective for preventing genital warts in males ages 9 to 26, a ...
Wed, September 09, 2009
FDA panel backs Glaxo cervical cancer vaccine
By Lisa Richwine
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline PLC's proposed cervical cancer vaccine is safe and effective for girls and young women ages 10 ...
Wed, September 09, 2009
Senate panel omits funds for second F-35 engine
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate subcommittee omitted funding on Wednesday for an alternate engine for the F-35 fighter jet in ...
Tue, September 08, 2009
U.S. should consider trust for auto stake: panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration should consider a trust for its stake in U.S. auto companies to ensure rigorous independent management and facilitate ...
Tue, September 08, 2009
Trade panel to look into digital television order
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. trade panel said on Tuesday that it would investigate complaints that companies were violating its ban on imports of ...
Thu, September 03, 2009
WTO panel may rule against Airbus in subsidy case: report
(Reuters) - In a victory for Boeing <BA.N>, a preliminary World Trade Organization panel is likely to rule on Friday that European governments illegally ...
Wed, September 02, 2009
Stimulus saves construction jobs: House panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of jobs created or saved by infrastructure projects funded by the U.S. economic stimulus plan increased by more than ...
Tue, September 01, 2009
U.S. panel rejects Genzyme leukemia drug study
By Lisa Richwine
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Genzyme Corp should run a new study before the company can win approval to promote a pediatric ...
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