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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
targeted effort to improve Ebola treatments resulted in development of an antiviral drug with potential to treat the early stages of the disease. Better research, Moedas says, also requires better support for researchers. At a gathering... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
prescription from CVS and automatically check for any drug interactions. The hospital, like many community hospitals and doctors’ offices, did not have electronic records, but his office did. Would he ever go back to a paper prescription... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
care, plus some drug coverage — was rejected. It smacked of a “two-tiered” system, he says, and was unacceptable for political reasons. Costs have thus been significantly higher than expected because the standard plan — with a relatively... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Besides reading all the medical journals, Watson could inform doctors of when certain drug trials began and when others ended; it could also sequence a genome and find important gene... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
historically lagged behind that of California and Massachusetts despite the presence of numerous drug companies and medical research institutions.) And she is not alone: Endeavor Insight, a nonprofit research outfit that examines the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to something big. After a second field study, Solomon and Hillerstrom launched NeuroPhage. In tests on mice, the drug they developed improved both memory and cognitive abilities. “We believe it can identify harmful aggregates in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
habit. Introduced as a prescription drug in 1992 by de Weese's company, California-based Cygnus Research Corporation (now Cygnus, Inc.), Nicotrol represented a breakthrough in transdermal patch technology. Receiving FDA approval in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Gates said, does many things well, but the inspiration for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation came in part from a market failure in health-care delivery. Individuals who live in areas where tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria are still common are often too poor to afford... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
damaged the US’s social psyche, as did widespread drug use and chemical dependency. Vivid pictures of violence in Vietnam on TV plus incessant riots in major US cities began to blur the differences between crime, punishment, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
make food in the stuff,” he says. Capitalizing on its burgeoning algal expertise, SGI has already bred one strain that can make highquality protein and healthful fatty acids, and it hopes to coax others into producing biological drugs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Institution, served on the New Jersey Board of Higher Education, and was a director for the Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, New Jersey. In retirement, Peterson devoted himself to community service and spent much of his time helping those in recovery from... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
it’s not drug problems or throwing a stapler at the assistant. It’s missing a delivery date. A veteran I worked with told me, ‘Your job isn’t to make it great; your job is to get it in by Tuesday.’ ” Dick’s prime-time résumé includes The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Forsythe stories feature a talented African American man, wrongfully imprisoned, who becomes a successful drug lord. The Carmichael stories feature two generations of Swedish immigrants in upstate New York, facing—or avoiding—the... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
and a 501(c)(3) called Cure Rare Disease. With the foundation, Horgan is trying to build something radical: A model for personalizing drug development, with the hopes of saving not only his brother but countless others. READ MORE Morrell:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
treatments of the antiviral drug Tamiflu we have ready to dispatch on an emergency basis to contain a pandemic may not be deployed in time. In the case of H5N1, is enough being done to destroy infected poultry stocks? As of December, more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
drug trade in North America for a new TV documentary series. Local Color by Gwen Keane (PMD 50) (High Tide Publications) Based on her experiences growing up in a farm community in the 1950s, Keane describes an undeveloped area where... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
solve our nation's drug epidemic. These accounts, illustrated with searing images by the award-winning photographer Lynsey Addario, provide a picture of working-class families needlessly but profoundly damaged as a result of decades of... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
sort of drug addiction, my mother who suffered from mental illness had started to disappear. And I guess, if I was a psychologist, I'd say, I, at 11, decided that I would be perfect in everything that I could control. I remember when my... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
beliefs that people hold about themselves. And getting over that hurdle before focusing on the eating disorder behaviors. Flint: I think this is tied to what you're just saying, but it seems to me that one of the ways in which eating disorder recovery is different... View Details