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FDA Painkiller Panelists Tied to Drug Companies

Ten members of the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel who voted that a group of powerful pain killers should continue to be sold had ties to the drug makers, a new analysis shows. A study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (search) indicates that 10 of …

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Retail Sales Excluding Autos Up 0.6 Percent

WASHINGTON – U.S. retail sales (search) dipped 0.3 percent in January, as expected, as automobile sales fell sharply, but purchases outside the volatile car sector gained a healthy 0.6 percent, a government report showed on Tuesday. While the drop in overall sales was the weakest performance in the Commerce Department‘s …

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Knight Didn't Know She'd Won Grammy

SALT LAKE CITY – Gladys Knight (search) wasn’t sitting in front of a television set watching the Grammy Awards (search). And she didn’t even know she shared a gospel performance Grammy award Sunday with the late Ray Charles (search) for their duet, “Heaven Help Us All,” until there was a …

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