In a report which went to Tuesday's meeting of the city council's development management committee, planners said the benefits of the plan outweighed any negative impact on the city's heritage assets.

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The FDA initially declined to approve it, asking in March 2010 for more information about the drug's prescribing label and the companies' risk-management plan to ensure the drug's benefits outweigh its risks.

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It is, however, believed to include some role for the federal Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan, the group of private health insurance plans that covers some 9 million federal workers and their dependents.

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