FDA, Lawmaker Clash Over Antibiotic

December 1, 2006

(AP) -- President Bush's choice to head the Food and Drug Administration is refusing to give Congress all the information it seeks about a controversial antibiotic, setting up further confrontations with a Republican senator blocking his nomination.

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