Word: cures
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...companies dropped sharply. Who needs another giant drug company pumping out me-too pills, focusing on stuff it already makes and pinching pennies to deliver a steady income? Biotech's allure since the benchmark Genentech IPO 23 years ago has been its promise to deliver wonder drugs that will cure feared ailments like cancer and Alzheimer's. Yet with an exhaustingly long list of failed products and failed companies in its brief past, the industry each year grows closer to losing sway with the moneymen who fund its research. Even though biotech stocks have been moving up this year, among...
...contagious. (Some scientists theorize that SARS, like similar viral infections that produce colds, could settle into a seasonal pattern of infection.) "What we have to realize is that SARS may be with us to stay," says Dr. Leong Che-hung, chairman of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority. Unless a cure is found, the best hope is that SARS eventually loses its punch...
Avastin must now wait for approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which researchers expect will occur by the end of this year. The drug is not expected to be a cure for cancer—doctors hope instead that it could serve as a helpful accompaniment to traditional chemotherapy programs...
...flesh reputedly warms the blood. Toad, however, is regarded as a perfect June-August nosh, because each bite is believed to cool the body, like a gastronomic air-conditioner. Deer tendons braised with turnip are supposed to enhance a woman's beauty; barking deer is said to cure hangovers, and a sizeable wild deer's penis reputedly does wonders for the underwhelming man. But the most fashionable?and expensive?morsel today is a strip of giant-salamander skin, the reddish tinge of which exactly matches the shade of China's new 100-yuan note. In the modern People's Republic...
FARMACEUTICALS: Corn with human DNA? Genetically altered crops could yield powerful new drugs, but critics fear the cure might be worse than the disease...