Business

• The Bulls Strike Back
  Podcast: July 3, 2009
• Summer Sizzle by MARIE DAGHLIAN
  A hot week for biotech dealmaking as Roche aligns itself with BIO.
• 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.

Health

• Suppressing the Suppressor
  Researchers pinpoint a new enemy for tumor-suppressor p53.
• Time for Hard Choices
  Two top U.S. researchers say the medical community must address the dilemma of using expensive treatments that only extend life for a short while.
• Waging a War on Smoking
  The U.S. government should take stronger steps to combat tobacco use in military, veteran populations, says report.

Magazine

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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

• A Complex Puzzle
  Study shows that a combination of common genetic variations can lead to schizophrenia.
• A Signature Difference
  UCLA researchers find molecular differences between embryonic stem cells and reprogrammed skin cells.
• More Pieces of the Autism Puzzle
  Further gene mutations linked to risk of the disorder.