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This attitude needs to change. Americans can no longer ignore the G.M. issue. Although there is a shocking dearth of clinical and agricultural testing, the few results we do have don’t look good. Double-blind trials have shown that the StarLink variety of corn, developed by Monsanto...
In an era when newly antibiotic resistant bacteria have resurrected diseases previously thought to have been eradicated or at least controlled, this is an alarming prospect. Imagine one of those bacteria in your gut happens to be strep or staph or tuberculosis—something nasty, but controllable with standard...
Imagine this scenario: terrorists release an airborne, antibiotic-resistant strain of anthrax in a major European capital. Without vaccines or antitoxins to reduce fatalities, the public is largely unprotected. But the government quickly dispenses a new nasal spray that puts people's immune systems into overdrive, protecting them not only...
When German conglomerate Bayer announced late last year that it is seeking a majority partner for its drug business, speculation swirled that a rival pharmaceutical giant would snap it up. Bayer seemed attractive not for its illustrious past (the company launched the modern pharmaceutical industry with its 1897 invention of...
Our July cover story in TIME Global Business profiled the highly competitive, Harley-riding CEO of Novartis, Daniel Vasella, and his plans for continued expansion of the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, despite the troubles facing the drug industry. Since then Vasella has led two big growth-enhancing initiatives. He and his...