Business

• Ending Another Kind of Drug Trade
  Regulators seek to end settlements that let brand-name pharmaceutical makers pay generic competitors to stay out of the market.
• Big Bonds and Small Deals by MARIE DAGHLIAN
  Merck’s raises $4.25 billion in debt, but it was mostly a quiet week for raising money.
• Big Bonds and Small Deals by MARIE DAGHLIAN
  Merck’s raises $4.25 billion in debt, but it was mostly a quiet week for raising money.

Health

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  Podcast: June 26, 2009
• Medicine’s Generation Gap
  Baby Boomers and Gen Xers are 3.5 times more likely than older Americans to postpone treatments because of costs.
• Test Anxiety
  Patients beware: One of 14 American’s isn’t informed about abnormal results by their doctor, new research shows.

Magazine

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  August/September 2008
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  June/July 2008 edition

Policy / Law

• Making Comparisons Effective
  Any cost-versus-efficiency studies of healthcare should consider at least five elements, researchers say.
• How Personalized Medicine Is Transforming Healthcare
  Podcast: June 12, 2009
• Inheritance Tax
  Individuals with family history of genetic disease are at risk of discrimination.

Society

• Power of Prayer
  Novel social history of intercessory prayer studies reveals growing religious diversity and diminishing belief in science to measure the value of prayer.
• Ticking Time Bomb
  Climate change could trigger a host of environmental disasters by 2050, setting off a wave of massive and disruptive migrations, a new report finds.
• Identity Crisis
  Cancer drug causes patient to lose fingerprints and be detained by U.S. immigration.

Tech/Innovation

• Eradicating HIV
  Researchers uncover approach to possibly destroy the virus that causes AIDS.
• Smoking Your Brain
  New research discovers link between tobacco and neurological damage.
• In Pursuit of Happiness Genes
  A Tel Aviv University researcher thinks genetics may account for half of an optimistic outlook.