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Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Massachusetts Mental Health Research Corp.--both Harvard-affiliated institutions--were also named in the complaint, which focused on nearly a dozen studies into the causes of conditions ranging from schizophrenia to obesity. Most of the studies are funded by the National Institutes of Health, placing them under the jurisdiction of the federal government...
...through its website--and distributes them to antipoverty organizations, to which it offers management support and from which it requires accountability. "What we do is not only give money but business skills and expertise in marketing, public relations, technology, financial and business management," explains Paul Brainerd, president of Aldus Corp. and founder of Social Venture Partners, a nonprofit consortium for techies who don't merely write checks but also lend their skills...
...versions of Mevacor will surely cut into Pravachol's sales, justifying Bristol-Myers' push for OTC too. An added benefit: a switch could give the maker exclusive selling rights on the drug for three more years. That's why medicines like the hair-loss treatment Rogaine (owned by Pharmacia Corp.) and the heartburn reliever Tagamet (SmithKline Beecham) moved from prescription to OTC before their patents expired. Although prices fall, unit volumes usually increase, removing some of the sting...
...something like this. There was an opportunity for me to make a difference." In the summer of 1997, without outside funding or public recognition, he single-handedly removed 45,000 lbs. of junk from a 100-mile stretch of shoreline. Soon a modest grant arrived from Alcoa Corp...
...Justice Department sued Louisiana in 1998 for inadequate care of its jailed youth, a privately owned juvenile-detention facility opened there. Here was the state's chance to prove it could run a prison right, even if it meant contracting with an outside company--the Florida-based Wackenhut Corrections Corp. Instead a Justice Department investigation of Jena prompted the state to transfer all the inmates out of there last...