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5 hours ago ago from delanceyplace
In today's excerpt - by the estimate of journalist Philip Caputo, the most violent city in the world is not located in Afghanistan, Iraq or some Sub-Saharan African country, but across a river from the United States in Juarez, Mexico. And in the almost three years since President Felipe Calder n launched a war on drug cartels, some 14,000 people have been killed in the country of Mexico, and part of the country is effectively ...
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8 hours ago ago from Xconomy
Biotech , cancer , Finances Luke Timmerman wrote: Dendreon has just nailed down one of the biggest biotech financings in the U.S. this year. The Seattle-based biotech company (NASDAQ: DNDN ) has secured $356 million for its quest to market the first treatment in the U.S. designed to actively stimulate the immune system to fight cancer cells like a virus. The company sold 15 million shares at $24.75 apiece in an offering underwritten ...
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23 hours ago ago from Xconomy
Roundup , Biotech , cancer Luke Timmerman wrote: I groused last week that Seattle biotech news was slow, so naturally, this week I got swamped. Seattle-based Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN ), the developer of a first-of-its-kind treatment to stimulate the immune system against cancer, is seeking to raise more than $400 million in a stock offering . The company plans to use the loot to build up its manufacturing and marketing muscle. ...
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22 hours ago ago from Methadone Treatment
AIDS advocates complained bitterly that they had been betrayed and that the Bush administration’s best legacy was being gutted — and they blame a doctor and budget adviser who is also the brother of the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. “I’m holding my nose as I say this, but I miss George W. Bush,” said Gregg Gonsalves a long-time AIDS campaigner. “On AIDS, he really stepped up. He did a tremendous thing. Now, to have this ...
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11 hours ago ago from The Random Blog
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23 hours ago ago from PopEater
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -California's Air Resources Board is moving ahead with plans to delay the nation's toughest diesel emissions rules, allotting truckers wrestling with the economic downturn more time to invest in cleaner trucks. Wednesday's decision came after regulators heard from dozens of truckers who say they are bringing in less business and unable to pay for costly new equipment. "I'm concerned these regulations could put us out of ...
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22 hours ago ago from PopEater
Drug cost inflation in workers’ compensation is up 7.5 percent according to Health Strategy Associates’ (HSA) Sixth Annual Survey of Prescription Drug Management in Workers’ Compensation. This increase came after five years of progressively lower drug cost inflation rates documented in HSA’s previous surveys. Workers’ compensation payers said the primary cost driver was utilization, citing such specific issues as the over-use of pain ...
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