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Chemotherapy, radiation and the use of radioactive follow-up tests aren’t needed for some cancers, according to two studies that add to a growing debate on ways to lessen side effects and lower patient costs.
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP hired John Rhie as chairman of the firm’s Asian international arbitration practice and to open a Hong Kong office.
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A Harvard Medical School research assistant who has served as a U.S. judge for 23 years now finds herself at the center of the Boston Marathon bombing case, and by extension the post-Sept. 11 issue of whether, and when, suspected terrorists deserve constitutional rights.
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People with health insurance saw increases in their medical costs slow from 2009 to 2011, signaling potential structural changes in the industry that could cut health-care inflation and save the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars, according to two studies.
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Harvard Medical School said today that funding pressures are forcing it to close the New England Primate Research Center where the deaths of four monkeys drew government warnings.
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Harvard University scientists discovered a hormone that spurs the growth of beta cells, the body’s insulin factories, a finding that holds promise for treating diabetes in a new way.
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Alex Denner, Carl Icahn’s former top health-care investing executive, is starting an activist hedge- fund firm called Sarissa Capital Management LP, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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A simple blood sample turned up cancer-causing mutations more frequently than a tumor biopsy in a study that suggests the approach could help deliver a clearer picture of the disease and better tailor patients’ treatments.
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Rebecca Riggins, a Georgetown University cancer researcher, has had to freeze her work amid federal funding cuts brought on by sequestration. Literally.
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Pfizer Inc., the world’s biggest drugmaker, will pay closely held Bind Therapeutics Inc. as much as $200 million per potential drug to develop medicines using its nanotechnology platform.
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