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Managed Care June 2002	Oncologists: FDA needs to speed up approval of cancer-fighting drugs A Competitive Enterprise Institute survey of cancer specialists found that almost 8 of 10 oncologists think the FDA's approval process has "hurt their ability, at least once in their medical careers, to treat patients with the best possible care."
Reason July 2002 Mike Lynch	Data: Can't Give It Away An Urban Institute study released in March indicates that lack of access to taxpayer-funded health insurance isn't the problem.
Knowledge@Wharton	Drug Companies and the Patent Game: Fair Play or Foul? Is legal maneuvering a legitimate attempt by the big pharmaceutical companies to recover the huge costs of developing new drugs? Or are the brand-name firms inappropriately gaming the system for their own benefit, to the detriment of consumers and insurance companies?
CIO June 15, 2002 Scott Berinato	CIOs at the Heart of Health-Care Change For good or ill, CIOs are reshaping the way health care is delivered in America. Learn why CIOs are involved in fixing health care, find out how technology is helping to replace managed care with new kinds of insurance, and understand the ethical dilemmas these CIOs must deal with.
CIO June 15, 2002 Megan Santosus	The Doctor Is In -- Always By providing secure communications networks with provisions for authentication and encryption, Medem and other companies such as Healinx and Requesthealth.com hope to usher in a new age of doctor-patient electronic communication.
Entrepreneur July 2002 Chris Penttila	How's Your Health? When health care is healthy, it's the industry to be in -- and the current chaos in the sector may be the opening you need.
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 Beth Schachter	Informatics Moves to the Head of the Class The race is on to increase the quantity and quality of bio-IT training programs as government and academia bet the need will be great. Will the job market back up that bet?
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 John Brokars	Fly Fishing on the Brain Applying modern transgenic and video technology to that fabled animal model, the fruit fly, EnVivo Pharmaceuticals is creating a buzz in its program against neurodegenerative diseases.
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 Malorye Branca	FDA Fosters Pharmacogenomics One reason pharmaceutical companies have been slow to embrace pharmacogenomics is the fear that it will be difficult to get such products through the FDA. Lawrence J. Lesko, director of the FDA's Office of clinical pharmacology and biopharmaceutics, talks about his hopes for the field.
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 Morris R. Levitt	A New Economic Paradigm for Bio-IT? All who work in the bio-IT industry -- scientists, IT and informatics managers, and executives -- have been aware for some time that we seem to be suspended between an acute sense of crisis and a field of boundless opportunity.
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