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...next few weeks, Roche Diagnostics, a division of the Swiss drug giant Roche, will be ready to ship the first FDA-approved DNA diagnostic chips to labs in the U.S. The tiny gene detector, named AmpliChip, can help physicians assess how sensitive patients are to many commonly prescribed drugs. But will doctors order the test, which could cost $520? "We need to drive awareness," admits Heino von Prondzynski, global head of Roche Diagnostics. "Physicians usually don't know what to do with this information." Roche will also have to persuade insurers to cover the expense. It does have the stats...
...Locals call the U.S. vessels moored on the edge of the harbor - three support tankers and a scouting boat - "the ghost ships." Once part of the James River Reserve Fleet standing ready to respond to a national emergency, the 12,000-ton behemoths were decommissioned in the 1980s and 1990s and tugged across the Atlantic after a Hartlepool ship-breaking firm, Able UK, won the contract to recycle their steel, promising to create 1,500 jobs...
...Opponents of the scheme said Able UK's plan to dredge a nearby estuary for a series of wind turbines - an addendum to the original ship-breaking application - would unearth sediment containing dangerous heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury, and toxic chemicals like dioxin. They also question Able UK's plans to bury asbestos and other toxins from the ships at the nearby Seaton Meadows landfill...
...Friends of the Earth, Tweddle and his supporters won a judicial appeal in 2003 to stop Able UK from dismantling the boats. The Hartlepool Council then rejected Able UK's second application in 2006. It was only after the British government passed an advisory in March this year encouraging ship recycling in the UK - citing concerns that the work would otherwise go to unregulated docks in the developing world - that the council relented. In late October, it granted Able UK permission to recycle the ships, but the delay has cost the firm a contract for a further nine James River...
...center of Hartlepool for dinner, where a marina built by the council is bolstered by two new call centers and a tourist attraction. The pride of the town is now HMS Trincomalee, a restored 1817 warship, just like the ones Hartlepool was once famous for building, another ghost ship in a town haunted by them...