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By TODD ZWILLICH
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) — The Food and Drug Administration's pullback on the use of a controversial antibiotic yesterday did little to quell its critics, who today went before Congress to condemn the agency's safety practices.
On Monday, FDA officials announced they would restrict approved uses of Sanofi-Aventis's antibiotic Ketek. The announcement […]

LONDON, Feb. 13 (UPI) — British doctors still do not offer patients over 65 the same tests and treatment they give to younger patients, according to a new survey.
Researchers from the staff of Quality and Safety in Health Care, a publication of the British Medical Journal Group, surveyed 90 physicians from across Southern England […]

BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 13 (UPI) — Not only are men competitive, their sperm are competitive as well, according to a Florida Atlantic University study.
The study suggests that the human male has evolved mechanisms to pass on his genes during post-copulation as well, a phenomenon dubbed “sperm competition.”
In their article, Todd Shackelford […]

DAVIS, Calif., Feb. 13 (UPI) — Children who grow up in anti-social families are more likely to be anti-social themselves, according to a U.S. study.
In an effort to determine how anti-social behavior in one generation is transmitted to the next, researchers at the University of California-Davis and Virginia Tech looked at 430 adolescents […]

By STEVE MITCHELL UPI Senior Medical Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) — Sanofi-aventis's fourth-quarter earnings fell 5.6 percent and the company's future doesn't look so bright either, with the Food and Drug Administration taking potentially negative actions on two of its drugs.
The FDA again delayed ruling on Sanofi's obesity treatment Acomplia and also slapped a […]