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...only woman to be awarded a Life Science Fellowship this year. She spent some time after college working for a health care strategy consulting firm called Health Advances. The firm worked with pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, and nonprofits, looking at how different health care firms could optimize treatment delivery opportunities. “I definitely knew that I wasn’t interested in being a lab scientist,” Dunn said, “I wanted to work at the intersection of business and medicine. I’ve always been interested in health care...
...spending so much time playing hide and seek with weapons inspectors and raving about the destruction of the “Zionist regime” and “American empire,” Ahmadinejad does himself the benefit of deflecting attention away from his increasingly horrifying treatment of his own people. In a report by Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran released last week in order to coincide with his visit, the groups remind us that “reaching a resolution of the nuclear standoff should not come at the expense...
...List (Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.; debuts Oct. 3) is adapted from a show in Israel, which earlier this year gave us HBO's therapy drama In Treatment. In this dramedy, emphasis on the -medy, single gal Bella Bloom (Elizabeth Reaser - and, yes, Bloom owns a flower shop) throws a bachelorette party and gets thrown for a loop when the bridal party visits a psychic. Bella, the clairvoyant says, will get married within a year, to one of her ex-boyfriends - but if she doesn't find him in that time frame, she will never marry. (Some prophets speak in parables...
...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 in greater detail, we have a much better sense of what's the best way to eradicate...
...demand for cancer drugs, for one, will grow exponentially with this treatment approach. But more important, Roche can now use biomarkers to determine much earlier in the R&D process whether a drug will pan out. Down the pipeline, diagnostics identify which patients most benefit from a therapy, giving clinical trials tailored to that subset a better chance of succeeding. Moreover, any patient for whom the drug wouldn't work or whom the drug could harm can be excluded...