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ANCHOR LEAD: WILL INDUSTRY/ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS IMPERIL TRUST? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS Industry often engages academic institutions, Johns Hopkins among them, to study their drugs, products or devices, and this is an important source of funding. Ben Park, a cancer researcher at …
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ANCHOR LEAD: GROUPS LIKE STAND UP TO CANCER ARE VERY HELPFUL IN MOVING THE RESEARCH ENTERPRISE FORWARD, ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS What do major league baseball, the organization known as Stand Up to Cancer, and Johns Hopkins have in common? They’re …
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ANCHOR LEAD: IN CONTRAST TO MANY INDUSTRY RELATIONSHIPS, JOHNS HOPKINS IS PLANNING A LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH MEDIMMUNE, ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS Many relationships between academic institutions and industry are project-based, but not so a new endeavor between MedImmune, a biotech …
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ANCHOR LEAD: WHAT DO JOHNS HOPKINS AND A BIOTECH FIRM HAVE IN COMMON? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS Can Johns Hopkins and the biotechnology firm MedImmune craft a mutually beneficial relationship? That’s the hope of a new enterprise between Hopkins and this …
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ANCHOR LEAD: DO ADVANCES IN THE TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER OBVIATE THE NEED FOR MAMMOGRAMS? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS There’s no question the treatment of breast cancer has improved a great deal, such that some people advance the opinion that regular …
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ANCHOR LEAD: WHAT ARE THE UPSIDES AND DOWNSIDES OF MAMMOGRAPHY? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS Mammography prevents death from breast cancer in only a few women screened, yet causes many more to undergo treatment that isn’t needed, and identifies hundreds who then …
