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These tools can also grant older medications a new lease on life. Take the cancer drug MabThera, sold in the U.S. as Rituxan. MabThera was originally developed to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In 2006, Roche scientists noticed--again using biomarkers--that it was also extremely effective in certain cases of rheumatoid arthritis, a painful autoimmune condition that causes joint inflammation. Roche's sales to arthritis patients have already totaled more than $420 million...
Kennedy School Professor Robert D. Putnam, an authority on social capital best known for his essay “Bowling Alone,” will gain a hand with his research on civic involvement, thanks to a grant given to the Kennedy School of Government’s Saguaro Seminar, by the Corporation for National and Community Service...
Putnam and fellow researcher Thomas H. Sander plan to use the $275,618 grant to study how social context affects volunteering and civic participation. Both men are involved with the Saguaro Seminar, which works to improve the measurement of social capital—the set of resources, available in social networks, that lead people to help and get help from their connections—and studies this information to develop ways to improve civic involvement...
...with younger Americans from well-off backgrounds increasing their participation in politics and society, while kids from the wrong side of the tracks are increasingly dropping out,” wrote Putnam, who founded the Seminar in 1995, in an e-mailed statement. “This generous new grant will help us better understand the dimensions of this problem, and to explore its origins...
...grant, which the Corporation for National and Community Service is awarding for the first time, was announced yesterday at the annual meeting of the National Conference on Citizenship in Washington, D.C. Sander, the executive director of the Seminar, said he learned they had been awarded the grant two weeks...