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...Destiny also played a part when, in 1949, Harvard asked him to pay a $10,000 bribe to dodge an anti-Semitic quota for Jewish medical students....
...I sat in on a fascinating conversation between bestselling author Dan Pink and my FT colleague Andrew Hill....
...However, it remains to be seen how long a booster can protect for, when “antibody levels wax and wane”, said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security....
...Barry Zingman, professor of medicine who oversaw a remdesivir trial at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, said the approval marked an “important milestone” that would help to improve patient results...
...Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering, said Gilead had often prioritised “revenue, market share and pricing power” and so it was not a surprise that...
...This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 25 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc....
...“These tests are essentially of little or even no value if they come back within that kind of a timeframe,” said Dr Tom Frieden, the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...Then there’s the drama over the talks on Capitol Hill regarding additional fiscal stimulus....
...Chiang Rai is among Thailand's most glorious provinces, with its rolling hills, forests, elephant camps, sparkling waters and top-quality farm produce....
...“As well as entertainment, we have businesses to support people, like medical or life insurance. The timescale is long in medical equipment, quite opposite from smartphones....
...In 2017, Ping An Tech entered into a collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Chongqing and Shenzhen....
...Silverstein’s giving has included $5.25m to endow medical scholarships at NYU and $5m to Hunter as a birthday surprise to Klara, but the family’s board roles have been as important as its donations, he says...
...Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, says Mr Shkreli’s aggressive approach is the natural consequence of a US system that...
...Price pressures Direct federal government intervention in drug prices is barred under US law – testament, critics say, to big pharma’s lobbying power on Capitol Hill....
...Democrats on Capitol Hill have been pushing for legislation to block inversions but their efforts have so far been resisted by Republicans....
...Twilight, Romney v Obama....
...“I’ve been crying all day,” said Lucy Gala, a 15 year old student at Smokey Hill, a nearby high school. “Some of my friends were shot. My sister’s friend was killed.”...
...Omar Ishrak CEO of Medtronic, US medical technology group, since June 2011. Took over as head of GE Healthcare in 2009. Joined GE in 1995, having worked at Philips. Jim McNerney CEO of Boeing....
...This brief remark, first applied the isolation and purification of adrenalin, undergirds huge swaths of modern medical research....
...The plaintiffs include the City of Baltimore, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Bucks County Water & Sewer Authority....
...Voting 8-1 in Riegel v Medtronic, the justices barred a suit from the widow of a man injured by a heart catheter that had been approved for sale by the Food and Drug Administration....
...Robin Conrad of the National Chamber Litigation Center, the US Chamber of Commerce’s legal arm, welcomed the decision to hear the Wyeth case and other business cases on Friday....
...writes Craig Steven Jepson, a patent expert at Franklin Pierce Law Center, who filed a brief in the case....
...That one of New York’s best hospitals, Weill Cornell Medical Center, is named after them is a testament to their willingness to give big....
...Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Lloyd is chairman and chief executive officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and a director of the firm....
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