Word: conferencees
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It goes without saying that they've never been known as fans of each other's work. During the more than five years it took to bring the Wyly and Winspear from the design phase to completion, representatives of the two firms rarely showed up in Dallas at the same...
The other side has resources of its own. The biggest generic-drug company, Teva Pharmaceuticals, has spent more than $2 million on lobbying and also sponsored academic work on the issue, aiming to disprove Duke's Grabowski. Generic-drug manufacturers are allied with such powerful organizations as AARP, labor unions...
Nonetheless, many AIDS experts applauded the findings as a crucial starting point for further research. Some say that as slight as it was, the vaccine benefit discovered in the trial may eventually help scientists develop a workable AIDS vaccine - a goal that has eluded them for more than two decades...
Overall, the study found that the two-vaccine approach was 31% effective in preventing HIV infection: 51 of the roughly 8,200 people who had been inoculated eventually acquired HIV, compared with 74 people in the placebo group. The analysis that resulted in the 31% figure, however, included study participants...
Still, there's no guarantee the AMA or other physicians' groups will ultimately support health-care reform. "We haven't seen the Senate bill," AMA president Dr. J. James Rohack said at a press conference Tuesday urging passage of the 10-year freeze. "So once we get that out there...