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Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Mike Fitzgerald	Funding the Future Investor G. Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Company, helps biotech companies fulfill their potential. He talked recently about his view of the bio-IT field.
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Kevin Davies	Counting the Cost of Drug Discovery Much of the trouble ensnaring the drug industry is blamed on the exorbitant cost of drug discovery. Tangible proof that the bio-IT revolution will economize drug discovery is emerging, but there is still a long way to go.
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Kevin Davies	Combating Creative Chaos in Bioinformatics "The desktop computer has become an indispensable part of the biologist's tool chest," says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Lincoln D. Stein, but one that is not being used to its full advantage.
Salon.com July 11, 2002 Lawrence Goodman	Celebrity pill pushers Under the guise of "public service," pharmaceutical companies are quietly paying stars to solicit new customers on TV talk shows with tales of personal suffering and blessed relief.
Salon.com July 10, 2002 Trisha Posner	Death by hormones It's been more than 50 years since studies first sounded the alarm about hormone replacement therapy. Women, silenced by shame, have been guinea pigs of the pharmaceutical industry for too long.
Wired August 2002 Wil McCarthy	Strange Blood Cataclysmic shortages. Tainted supplies. There is a solution: artificial blood.
Managed Care June 2002 Jeffry R. Ellis	Third-Party Payers Don't Realize Burdens Placed on Pharmacists PBMs and HMOs, by imposing a workload that doesn't allow enough time for needed functions, seem to want pharmacists to fail, this author asserts.
Managed Care June 2002 Frank Diamond	A Look at Kaiser CEO's Legacy: Faith in Quality Never Waned David M. Lawrence, MD, MPH, guided the country's largest not-for-profit health plan through the tumultuous managed care decade.
Managed Care June 2002	'We Changed The Way Kaiser Makes Decisions, Views Itself' Lawrence's tenure as Kaiser CEO came at a tumultuous time for the country's largest classic HMO. An interview with David M. Lawrence.
Managed Care June 2002 Frank Diamond	Meet George C. Halvorson When it selected the person who would become only the fourth CEO in Kaiser Permanente's history, it may have seemed that the health plan reached beyond its own culture.
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