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FDA’s increased inspections of medical device manufacturers and targeted risk-based approach
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- Written by Deborah Kotz Deborah Kotz
- Published: 21 November 2018 21 November 2018
Washington, DC - “As medical device manufacturing has become an increasingly global enterprise, the FDA has taken forceful action to increase inspections of medical device firms, especially those located in foreign countries. Over the past decade, we’ve increased the annual number of international device inspections by 243 percent taking into account that quality system issues are more likely to occur in firms located overseas,” said Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
Sanctions Announcement on Iran
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- Written by State Department State Department
- Published: 20 November 2018 20 November 2018
Washington, DC - The United States today sanctioned an international network by which the Iranian regime and Russia are providing millions of barrels of oil to the Assad regime in exchange for the movement of hundreds of millions of dollars to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force, and for onward transfer to terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hizballah.
Vice President Pence at Thanksgiving Gathering for Military Families
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- Written by White House White House
- Published: 19 November 2018 19 November 2018
Yigo, Guam - Andersen Air Force Base: Remarks by Vice President Pence at Thanksgiving Gathering for Military Families:
Criminal Justice reform: We can improve expensive, ineffective system by lowering recidivism
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- Written by Jared Kushner and Tomas Philipson USA Today via The White House Jared Kushner and Tomas Philipson USA Today via The White House
- Published: 19 November 2018 19 November 2018
Washington, DC - Crime imposes substantial fiscal and social costs on the United States. In 2016, more than 1.4 percent of our Nation’s GDP was spent funding the State and Federal criminal justice system. Victims and society at large also bear significant costs through pain, suffering, reduced quality of life, property losses, increased medical costs, and loss of life. The most recent estimates from 2014 indicate that altogether these damages constitute an additional 1.5 percent of GDP, yielding a total burden of 2.9 percent of GDP, or roughly $500 billion.
Did Democrats elect Trump Tormentors instead of lawmakers in the 2018 Midterms?
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- Written by Dan Weber, president of AMAC Dan Weber, president of AMAC
- Published: 19 November 2018 19 November 2018
Washington, DC - Voters elect their representatives for one purpose, and one purpose only: to produce and enact legislation that will make their lives better. They don’t put them in office to seek revenge. But, Democrats will have a majority in the House of Representatives come January and many are hell bent on mischief and then some.