If the “War on Drugs” Has Failed, Is Legalization the Answer?

Published October 30, 2012

If the “War On Drugs” has Failed, is Legalization the Answer? – Leigh Maddox and Peter Christ (members of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition): The “War on Drugs” helped create a situation where from gangs, to police to lawyers to jails, there is massive amounts of money to be made in this never-ending “war”

Duke Medicine: Duke pioneers gentler breast cancer drugs

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As a nationally renowned oncologist at the Duke Cancer Institute, and director of its Breast Cancer Program, Blackwell leads clinical trials new, more effective, and less toxic treatments for breast cancer. Her work on a new treatment for HER-2 breast …
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Cytokinetics Announces Opening of BENEFIT-ALS, A Phase IIb Clinical Trial of …

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Cytokinetics' lead drug candidate from its cardiac muscle contractility program, omecamtiv mecarbil, is in Phase II clinical development for the potential treatment of heart failure. Amgen Inc. holds an exclusive license worldwide (excluding Japan) to …
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Monoclonal Antibodies, 1979

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The theoretical work that would lead to the production of monoclonal antibodies started in the early 1970s, but The New York Times would not mention the term until May 1, 1979, in a roundup of science news. “A new San Diego firm,” an article on Page C2 …
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