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...jury found that Searle had insufficiently tested the birth-control device and concluded that the IUD caused Plaintiff Esther Kociemba to develop a pelvic infection that led to sterility. Until that verdict was handed down, Searle had won all but three of the Copper-7 cases that had gone to jury trials. Two of the cases ended with awards of just $550,000; in the third case no award has yet been made. Hundreds of complaints, though, were settled out of court for undisclosed sums. Some 1,300 separate lawsuits have been filed against Searle since 1974, and more...
Gorbachev has signaled greater tolerance for diversity in the "fraternal countries" of Eastern Europe. They, more than the Soviet Union itself, should be recipients of aid, trade and credits from the industrialized democracies led by the U.S. The goal of such a policy would be to help Eastern Europe develop more efficient, productive, market-oriented economies. Not only might political liberalization go hand in hand with economic decentralization, but greater prosperity may be an antidote to the kind of crises that have all too often brought in Soviet tanks in the past. Gorbachev has his own reasons for wanting...
...announced their findings, which involved transplanting human fetal tissue into the mice, just as a special advisory committee of the National Institutes of Health was meeting in Bethesda, Md., to consider the scientific and ethical issues surrounding the use of human fetal tissue in experimental research. The reason: to develop recommendations that may influence the Reagan Administration's proposed ban on such federally funded research...
...conference series, funded by a $450,000 Macy Foundation gift, is called, "Meeting the Need for Health Care Personnel: Managing the HIV Epidemic in the 1990s." The conference program is part of a long-term goal of the Institute to promote education about AIDS and to develop more effective health care policies for the disease...
...University last week proposed a complex multi-million dollar fund for commercializing its professors' discoveries in what amounts to an attempt to build a better mousetrap. Under several arrangements, Harvard is trying raise $35 million to organize companies that would develop faculty research, with the University receiving 10 percent of the profits...