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...During her tenure, the department has tackled a series of thorny issues, from welfare reform to organ allocation...
DuPont isn't the only company throwing tacks in the path of its generic rivals. Just last week Novartis, maker of the blockbuster anti-rejection drug Neoral, for organ-transplant patients, failed to get a Massachusetts state drug board to limit sales of Neoral's equivalent, generic cyclosporine. Ohio's senate, egged on by Novartis, has held 11 hearings in two years on this issue. "They have been bloody dogged on this," says R.J. Tesi, an executive with generic cyclosporine maker SangStat Medical Corp. He points out that patients spend $5,000 or more on Neoral yearly, while the generic...
...album's first disc features the Fatboy Slim mix. True to the big beat sound, the disc kicks off with Walter Wanderley's organ tune "Summer Samba." Laid over that kitschy melody is the weirdest breakbeat you'll ever hear, something like a mixture of a saw and a mattress spring. Fatboy Slim's mix features remixes of songs by famous artists like the Chemical Brothers ("The Private Psychedelic Reel"), Underworld ("Born Slippy") and Art of Noise ("Metaforce"), but to buy the album just for these would be a terrible mistake. To appreciate the mix, you really need to hear...
...much about artificial hearts in recent years, and no wonder. It took Washington dentist Barney Clark 112 miserable days to die after being fitted with the Jarvik-7 heart back in 1982--four months of suffering that included convulsions, kidney failure, respiratory problems, a wandering mind and, finally, multi-organ system failure. In the aftermath of that debacle, the New York Times nicknamed artificial-heart research the "Dracula of Medical Technology...
...Everybody enjoyed good quality choral and organ music," he says. "We always felt that to make good music was important to the community...