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...Shoulson, a professor of neurology at the University of Rochester in upstate New York, also chairs the nonprofit Parkinson's Study Group, which investigates and oversees clinical trials for new Parkinson's treatments. Dr. Shoulson spoke with TIME.com Thursday about the study and pointed out a silver lining in the otherwise bleak results...
...people to die simply because they are unable to afford medicines we are capable of producing in plentiful supply. And let's be very clear about this - it's not the drug companies that are at fault here. They're behaving as corporations behave. If they behaved like nonprofit organizations then they wouldn't be corporations. In other words, the questions raised by the Pretoria trial are a challenge to our society as a whole, or at least to the very principle of medicine for profit...
...over the town square in Peoria. Despite privacy protection's rising profile as a political issue, Americans aren't exactly up in arms over protecting their medical records from prying eyes, says Robert Belair, a privacy lawyer in Washington, D.C., and cofounder of Privacy and American Business at the nonprofit Center for Social and Legal Research. "That's partly because this issue gets technical in a hurry," Belair says. "But it's also because the public is fairly pessimistic about privacy - a lot of folks may think their privacy is already gone...
...study conducted by William C. Kidder, a researcher with Testing for the Public, a nonprofit organization in Berkeley, Calif., reports that Asian-American enrollment at three University of California (UC) law schools--UC-Berkeley, UCLA and UC-Davis--showed no marked change since...
...hype here: there are nearly 11 hours of buried treasures, most of them from the first half century of movies, all rescued and restored by nonprofit institutions. Among the finds in this handsome four-disc set are footage of Orson Welles' 1936 "Voodoo" Macbeth and Marian Anderson's 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial; a 1901 trick film transferred from paper prints; a 1905 ride on a New York City subway; such avant-garde classics as The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) and Joseph Cornell's Rose Hobart (1936), a work with such power to shock that Salvador...