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Like it or not, just about every U.S. company is in the health-care business, one way or another. Employer-sponsored health plans are a treasured benefit for American workers and, for their bosses, a valuable tool for luring the best people. But double-digit growth in health-care costs, coupled with an uncertain economic future, has pushed many businesses to look for new ways to cut their health-care costs...
...fact, there is no mass-mail effort as part of the campaign. Rather, the slick booklet which outlines “The Case” is meant as a tool for HBS staff meeting with alumni—a way to walk them through the process and goals of the campaign...
...team of scientists, led by a third-year Harvard Medical School student, has developed the first powerful tool to study how the human genome has been affected by cultural and environmental factors over the past 10,000 years...
...Thanks to this year's chemistry Nobel laureates, that's a lot easier than it used to be. In the late 1980s, John Fenn, 85, of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Koichi Tanaka, 43, of Shimadzu Corp. in Kyoto, Japan, independently invented techniques that extended a common analytical tool called mass spectrometry - that is, sorting by mass - to much bigger and more complex molecules than had ever been possible. Among many other things, their work has led to new diagnostic tests for ovarian, breast and prostate cancers and for malaria, and earned the pair half of the approximately $1million prize...
...other half goes to Kurt W?thrich of, 64, of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. Like Tanaka and Fenn, W?thrich took an existing high-tech tool and refined it for use on organic molecules. In this case, the technology was nuclear magnetic resonance (better known in its medical diagnostic form as MRI). It works by bathing a lab sample or a human body with electromagnetic energy and carefully measuring how the atoms and molecules respond. It?s not all that difficult when you?re looking for something big - a tumor inside...