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...It’s remarkable that this study says that [physicians] are not just caving in to patient demand,” Soumerai said...
...DTCA can be a valuable source of patient education,” senior vice president Ken Johnson said in the statement. “DTC ads increase awareness of disease and foster critical dialogues with physicians...
...moment, scientists call these unknowns "dark energy" and "dark matter," respectively. The LHC, by examining the subatomic building blocks of the universe, might explain these mysteries and many others, much as a doctor diagnoses a patient by studying blood work. But according to Tejinder Virdee, a particle physicist from Imperial College London, the best-case scenario will be if the machine uncovers something completely unexpected. "Nature can surprise us... we have to be ready to detect anything it throws at us," he said. "You can make conjectures, but unless you verify the conjectures, they are metaphysics. That's why many...
...uncompromisingly literary (and literate) book: ferociously intelligent, highbrow, allusive and unflinching in its probing of the question, "What relation does the individual have to history?" It is equally intransigent with its oblique, sometimes scathing answers. A book such as this, so preternaturally attuned to listening to "the patient rage of history," is a marvelously layered palimpsest...
...MMRF made sure it got the most from its grant dollars by adopting an enforced-collaboration model in 2004, linking work at four cancer centers into a consortium managed by PricewaterhouseCoopers and providing them all with patients, tissue samples and a set of targets and goals. "The odds of a cure coming from one center are nil," Giusti says. "You need a mutual fund to fight cancer." From not having a single drug in the pipeline, the MMRF now has 30, half of them in clinical trials. The average lifespan of a multiple-myeloma patient has been extended by three...