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...district TB officer in Moga, in India's Punjab region. In addition, the test can detect only MDR TB, not the emerging XDR strains. But both WHO and the Global Fund for H.I.V., TB and Malaria are betting that investing in such facilities will boost these nations' ability to combat not just TB but other infectious diseases too. UNITAID, the international drug-purchasing organization, has pledged $26.1 million to the effort, while the Global Fund promises to entertain grant proposals from countries eager to build such labs. "We don't have the luxury of having a simple saliva test that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuberculosis: An Ancient Disease Continues to Thrive | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...combat soaring costs, Roche also plans to create more customized drugs and redesign the way it develops them. At the center of this push is the company's diagnostics unit, which Schwan oversaw before taking on the top job last year. Perhaps more than any of its rivals, Roche sees diagnostic machines and test kits as crucial to assessing and treating disease in the future. That belief, in turn, has led to a laser-sharp focus on "personalized medicine." So, for example, an oncologist will use a genetic test to pinpoint the exact kind of cancer her patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roche's Rush | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...seen its own line of attack succeed. The proof? Roche's first targeted breast-cancer drug, Herceptin. Developed by Genentech, Herceptin was marketed specifically to destroy cancers containing the her-2/neu protein, which doctors can detect using a 21-gene screen diagnostic. Herceptin has helped thousands of women combat breast cancer. But there's no doubt it has also helped Roche's bottom line: at $40,000 a year per patient, Herceptin grew globally in sales nearly 25%, to $4.1 billion, last year. "You need self-confidence to take risks," Schwan says. But, he adds, "if you are successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roche's Rush | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...said. "I think these questions are evidence that there is still a lot about your history during the war that [Italians] have got to come to grips with." He was also quoted in the Italian press as saying there were plenty of cases of resistance fighters fleeing from combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spike Lee vs. the Italian Resistance | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...evaluating the “maleness” of their faces—a larger jaw and other measures imply a greater influx of testosterone during puberty, according to Apicella. “This financial risk taking in men is the modern equivalent of male-to-male combat,” said Apicella, who found in a previous study that men with lower voices tend to father more children than men with higher voices. Apicella’s co-author, Anna S. J. Dreber, a visiting researcher from the Stockholm School of Economics, noted that...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Testosterone Linked to Risky Investments | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

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