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| ICYMI: How Other Countries Freeload on U.S. Drug Research -WSJ |
| Writing for the Wall Street Journal this week, former FDA Associate Commissioner Peter Pitts has a timely reminder on why allowing the importation of overseas drugs in an effort to save money – despite being proposed for decades– remains a bad idea that would produce scant savings while hampering continued innovation and investment…
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| Biopharma Takes Aim at Opioid Abuse |
| Next-generation painkillers in development are non-addictive.
One in three Americans – roughly 100 million people – report suffering from some type of pain, according to the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine. That’s more people than suffer from diabetes, cancer and heart disease combined…
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| GM Hens Could Save an Entire Species |
| "Researchers at the Roslin Institute have genetically modified chickens who act as surrogates to lay the eggs of rare chicken species,” Futurism recently reported. “The success of this study could help scientists to save endangered species and prevent the depletion of species used as food sources." |
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