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...that its drug was more effective. Bertarelli's priority today is to fill Serono's pipeline with new drugs so it isn't so dependent on a few products. To leverage and expand its MS expertise, Serono is partnering with other firms to create treatments for associated ailments that afflict MS patients...
...Vautin says sometimes it is impossible to prepare with any specificity for what might afflict Harvard...
...London, Steven Schey has been treating 24 patients suffering from multiple myeloma with Actimid, another thalidomide analogue. Previous treatment regimens had been ineffective on these patients, but Schey found a 65% response rate to Actimid. He also noticed that the drug lessened the feelings of lethargy and nausea that afflict chemotherapy patients. And it helps them put on weight, which increases their feelings of wellness. "Even patients whose disease didn't respond to the drug still felt better," he says. It's still "early days" to claim too much for thalidomide, Schey warns, but he is setting up a full...
...fast. Long Beach is the unlikely scene of the airline industry's fiercest dogfight over passengers and landing slots. Upstart carrier JetBlue Airways cleverly identified Long Beach airport as a back door into the lucrative Southern California market--and a way around the luggage lines and traffic jams that afflict the bigger airports 22 miles north in Los Angeles and 22 miles south in Orange County. It's a fight that features the usual coast-to-coast fare cuts, but it's also one that suggests passengers are changing the way they think about air travel...
...increase in offerings, while likely to help meet the traditionally intense demand for seminars, will leave unsolved other problems that afflict the program. These include unbalanced demand for offerings, potentially underqualified instructors and a burdensome application process...