Dodd , a Democrat, is proposing a sweeping set of drug reforms that would give the Food and Drug Administration the muscle to force pharmaceutical companies to study drug safety after the medicines are approved.

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Having quietly given Rwanda the benefit of the doubt, will the US, the UK and the EU finally use their collective muscle - and aid budgets - to force Kigali, and to a marginally lesser extent, Kampala, to stop their military adventures in DR Congo?

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For more marketing muscle, it teamed up in 2000 with Wyeth, which brought an additional sales force of 1, 000.

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