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...Perhaps more than any of its rivals, Roche sees diagnostic machines and test kits as crucial to assessing and treating disease in the future. That belief, in turn, has led to a laser-sharp focus on "personalized medicine." So, for example, an oncologist will use a genetic test to pinpoint the exact kind of cancer her patient has and then proceed with a highly specific treatment course of Roche drugs. "For a long time, we acted as if all cancers are homogeneous," says David Heimbrook, Roche's V.P. for oncology discovery. "Now, because we can quickly analyze a tumor...
...hard to pinpoint exactly why these animals are so darn cute; maybe it's their small size relative to their fellow primates. Maybe it's their flirty, innocent playfulness. A snow white sifaka putting on a show before a crowd of onlookers, swinging back and forth - it's so toe-curlingly kawaii, as our Japanese traveling companions put it, you could die. Though cuteness alone isn't likely to save the lemurs from the forces that threaten them - hunting, deforestation and habitat destruction - it certainly puts them in a better position than their homelier endangered peers...
...hard to pinpoint the precise draw of reality TV: There's the vicarious thrill of talent competitions like American Idol, with its promise of stardom for shower-singers; there's the rare chance to feel superior by tuning in to watch someone being voted out of a room. Most powerful is that, at their intimate best, the shows can out-dramatize fictional TV drama. In The Real World's third season, 20-year-old Pedro Zamora, a gay educator, came out as HIV-positive to his housemates, one of whom harassed him; married a fellow AIDS educator on camera...
...poor in America, for instance, are more likely than the rich to suffer diabetes, obesity or death in a gang fight - but with the new report, WHO aims to uncover "the causes of the causes." It sets out not to cure diabetes or crack down on violence, but to pinpoint the social factors that make the more poorly likely to suffer, and this "gradient," or the degree to which different groups are unequal in health, is far steeper in the U.S. than in most other industrialized countries. One reason, according to commissioner David Satcher, a former U.S. Surgeon General...
...says. Reliance on refined cereal grains may be a factor, Strate says, as well as red meat consumption, obesity, smoking, lack of physical activity, and perhaps even the impact of that daily aspirin so many Americans take on their doctor's advice. More study is needed, Strate says, to pinpoint causes...