New Zealand: Green Haven for Biotech?
The island nation may have found a way to calm both sides in the debate over genetically modified organisms.
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View ArticleNew Zealand: Green Haven for Biotech?
The island nation may have found a way to calm both sides in the debate over genetically modified organisms.
View ArticleHealthy, Wealthy, and Wise?
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan wants to show that modernization can be enlightened.
View ArticleCatching the Flu: A Photo Essay
As it tests a new way of making vaccines, TechnoVax is targeting the deadly 1918 flu virus.
View ArticleNew Zealand: Green Haven for Biotech?
The life science industries need a new prescription. Pharmaceutical makers, who say their high drug prices are necessitated by the huge cost of developing new medicines, are on the defensive as U.S....
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Under Review: Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of RegulationBy Philip J. HiltsAlfred A. Knof, New York, 2003, $19.95Over the course of just a few months last year,...
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Under Review: Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of RegulationBy Philip J. HiltsAlfred A. Knof, New York, 2003, $19.95Over the course of just a few months last year,...
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Placebos, not pills The Anatomy of Hope:How People Prevail in the Face of IllnessBy Jerome GroopmanRandom House, 2004, $14.95 The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine:Accommodating...
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By the end of this year, King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, whose family has ruled over Bhutan for almost a hundred years, will officially hand over power to the people. Nobody wants to see him go, but the...
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In 1918 and 1919, the Spanish flu killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. Today, health experts worry that if the virulent avian flu were to mutate into a strain that humans could easily...
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