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- 16 Jul 2019
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The Making of a Movement
proceeds from research specific to sarcoma—the disease Jen fought—to all rare cancers. The significance of that selfless shift was seismic. By loosening the link between Cycle for Survival and their own circumstances, the Linns gave...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
inflation, so from that perspective, complaints are understandable. On the other side, there are benefits. Mortality for many diseases has dropped dramatically over the last forty years. Analysis shows that 40 percent of that decline was...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
that there are currently 111,000 pages of Medicare regulations on the books. A cardiologist at the session described, with frustration, his ongoing multiyear crusade to convince Medicare officials to fund preventive measures against heart View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
those diseases. “These people have no voice in the marketplace,” Gates said. As a result, ten times as much funding is devoted to research on the prevention of male baldness as malaria, a disease that kills more than 1 million people each...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006
chronic diseases and disabilities are similarly provided with access to a world of possibilities. — GE Arnaud Karsenti Irrepressible entrepreneur, optimist, global dealmaker Karsenti On his 12th birthday, Arnaud Karsenti’s mother asked...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top
excessive risk-taking (or, at a minimum, didn’t respond with increased prudential regulation), stockholder demands for ever higher returns grew still further. It was a vicious cycle.... “The stockholder-centric view of the current Schumer bill simply cannot be the cure...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
cultural psyche. The war served further to diffuse hygienic habits, as the need to keep millions of soldiers free of disease resulted in soap, razors, and other toiletries becoming required elements of soldiers’ equipment. Soap companies...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
Fristrom (MBA 2008), managing partner, TerraNova Capital Advisors “Much like parenting your own children, an aging parent makes you realize how much is out of your control. Often plans must be altered to adapt to the changing environment of View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
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Don’t Be Afraid of AI
disease fighting. There are just a million areas where, you know, they're still looking for help on solving problems with a lot of data and we think we can help there. You know, we've had these infrastructure things, bad things happen,...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
a jumper in 1997. A rider since the age of 10 (“I blame my mother for getting me into it”), Minard saw great potential in Westley. But the horse suffered from a degenerative eye disease that could lead to blindness. The vet advised Minard...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
into the links between concussions and dementia. Researchers later found that Duerson was suffering from the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, thought to be the result of hits from his playing days.) The issue...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
guilt and insecurity. NeuroPhage is a family business of sorts. Jonathan Solomon’s (MBA 2007) mother, Beka Solomon, chair for biotechnology of neurodegenerative diseases at Tel Aviv University, had spent years working with a virus that...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
principles: putting patient care decisions, tasks, and workflows first; separating complicated, ambiguous diseases and conditions from those that are understood; ensuring that infrastructure and practices such as the mix of staff,...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since 1999; the picture is even grimmer...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
by Bob Flatt (MBA 1973) (Bright Sky Press) When Flatt was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he refused to let the news alter his positive perspective. He viewed the diagnosis as an opportunity: the disease gave him the gift of time to...
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