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Some Ebola Patients Should Get Placebo in Drug Tests: FDA "Edward Cox, director of the FDA’s Office of Antimicrobial Products, said Wednesday that some patients with Ebola need to forgo potentially life-saving treatments so researchers can see how they fare compared to those who receive the experimental drugs .... Cox noted that randomised studies would be "challenging," but they are necessary ..."

Edward Cox, a son-in-law of the late President Richard Nixon, is reconsidering his decision two months ago to withdraw from the race for the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the state's GOP chairman said Friday. "I spoke with him yesterday and he said he was reviewing whether or not to run," said Stephen Minarik. [snip] Minarik said he hoped to have county GOP chairmen meet sometime in mid- to late January, after Cox has made his decision, to consider who the party leaders would back. Independent polls have shown Clinton far ahead of any of her potential...

PULASKI, N.Y. -- In the dusty, rutted parking lot outside Pulaski's American Legion hall, the lanky lawyer looking to unseat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton next year recalled the disgrace that drove the man he refers to on the campaign trail simply as "my father-in-law" from the presidency. Edward Cox had married Richard Nixon's daughter, Tricia, at the White House in 1971. Three years later, Nixon would board a helicopter that took him into political exile in the wake of Watergate

(1010 WINS) (ALBANY) Vowing to ``capture the Republican and Conservative nominations county by county,'' Edward Cox announced Monday endorsements from two GOP chairmen in his bid for the 2006 Senate nomination to take on Democratic incumbent Hillary Rodham Clinton. Cox, a son-in-law of the late President Richard Nixon, is trying to blunt the drive by Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro for the GOP nod. Pirro, who announced her candidacy Aug. 8, had been urged to enter the Senate race by 46 of the state's 62 county chairmen, including Monroe County Chairman Stephen Minarik, who also is the state party...

Edward Cox, the Manhattan lawyer and son-in-law of the late President Richard Nixon, said Thursday he is not leaving the race for the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election bid next year. ``We're going to stay in this race,'' vowed Cox just one day after Jeanine Pirro, the Westchester County district attorney and apparent favorite of many party leaders, formally announced her candidacy. ``We'll support whoever the Republican nominee is, but we expect to be that nominee,'' Cox told The Associated Press. Meanwhile, another prospective GOP challenger, former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, told an Albany radio station...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a Senate race that could have implications for the 2008 presidential contest, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton raised more than $6 million between April and June. Campaign reports filed by Senate candidates Friday with the Federal Election Commission showed the former first lady, a New York Democrat, had $12.6 million cash on hand at the end of last month, even though she has no clear opponent yet. Manhattan lawyer Edward Cox, a son-in-law of former President Nixon, has begun preparations to challenge Clinton, and Republican party officials also are courting Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro as...

Claiming Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is ``more concerned about the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire'' than the needs of New Yorkers, Edward Cox took his nascent U.S. Senate campaign another step forward Wednesday, naming an exploratory committee whose members include Henry Kissinger, Theodore Roosevelt IV, and William H. Taft. Cox conceded his closest adviser, if he does decide to challenge Clinton in 2006, will be his wife, Tricia Nixon Cox, the daughter of former president Richard Nixon. ``Tricia is my best supporter and my best adviser,'' Cox told reporters. ``She's had a lot of experience in campaigns, going back...

ALBANY -- Edward Cox, a son-in-law of former President Richard Nixon, will file papers with election officials Wednesday, a first step in formalizing his candidacy against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2006. Republican leaders have been seeking a challenger to defeat or at least damage Clinton in the Senate campaign, making her expected 2008 presidential bid more difficult. "I am considering this run because New York needs a senator truly focused on solving the chronic problems that have driven too many jobs and too many of our children out of the state," Cox said in a news release being issued...

Edward Cox, former Reagan aide, set for 2006 N.Y. Senate challenge © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – It looks like Hillary Rodham Clinton will get a challenge in her bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate seat in New York after all. Edward Cox, a New York corporate lawyer and son-in-law of Richard Nixon, will definitely run next year for the U.S. Senate seat held by Hillary Clinton, reports next week's issue of Newsweek. Cox will reportedly run as a fiscal conservative and environmentalist, according to the report. He is also expected to break with some policies of the Bush administration....

The prospects of a Kennedy-Cuomo clash ended when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that he would not run against Andrew M. Cuomo for state attorney general. But now New Yorkers face the possibility of another clash of political families, this one pitting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton against Edward F. Cox, a son-in-law of President Richard M. Nixon. Mr. Cox, who married Tricia Nixon in the Rose Garden when her father was president, has told friends and Republican Party insiders that he is considering running against Mrs. Clinton in 2006, they said. Mr. Cox, 58, was busy making funeral...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Edward Cox, a son-in-law of President Nixon, is considering a Senate run next year against Hillary Rodham Clinton, a longtime friend and adviser said Friday. ``To say he's running against Hillary Clinton is to way overstate it, but he's interested in it. He's testing the waters,'' said the adviser, who spoke on condition of anonymity. ``We're meeting with people and sometime, probably in April or so, a decision will be made.'' Cox, 58, married Tricia Nixon at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden in 1971. He is a partner in a Manhattan law firm...