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...proposed rules are not satisfying the critics or slowing the biopharmers. Open-air trials of pharmaceutical crops have taken place in 14 states, from Hawaii to Maryland. A Texas firm is selling a corn-bred enzyme that stimulates insulin production in diabetics. Clinical trials have begun for experimental crop-grown drugs to treat cystic fibrosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and hepatitis B. "Molecular farming represents the pharmaceutical industry's best opportunity to strike a serious blow against such global diseases as AIDS, Alzheimer's and cancer," says Francois Arcand, president of the Conference on Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals, held in Quebec...
Blair knew Washington from his days at the University of Maryland and a stint working there for the Boston Globe, so he joined the seven other Times reporters on the story. "Lots of people were told to break news, but he wasn't one of them," says one Times source. "He was supposed to baby-sit the police headquarters and go to the press conferences, not break news." But that changed after Blair caught fire: newsrooms in New York City and Washington fizzed each time he tossed a new scoop on the table--the grape stem found at a murder...
Avoiding a hometown wedding can make the event less about other people--Mom's business partners, Dad's second cousin--and more about the bride and groom. Choosing neutral territory can also mitigate family conflicts. Marta Lowe, 32, who lives in Maryland, got married on a farm in Vermont rather than in her hometown, Olympia, Wash., where she feared her estranged divorced parents would spoil the atmosphere. "If I got married where I grew up, people would have come just to glare at each other," Lowe says. With rehearsal dinner and postwedding brunch the new norm, brides and grooms today...
...addition to funding research on its own campus in Maryland, the NIH provides grants for “extramural” research at a number of other facilities, and HMS is one of the greatest recipients of NIH grants...
...hasn't kept the drug companies from battling to preserve their status as the nation's most profitable industry. One tactic: funding phony grassroots groups. One or more industry-funded groups that go by the names Consumer Alliance, 60-Plus and Medicines Work have fought against lists in Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota, West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, the Carolinas and other states. A common way they shape opinion is through telemarketing initiatives that give recipients selected facts and then offer to patch them through to the governor or legislature to register their disapproval. In some states, like West Virginia, drugmakers have...