Toronto partnership to find better cancer treatments

Princess Margaret Hospital along with the province and the Merck drug company are joining forces with $17 million to find better drug treatments for patients.

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Toronto partnership to find better cancer treatments

Thatcher and Carter: the not-so special relationship (Daily Telegraph)

Newly released documents from Margaret Thatcher’s first year in office reveal her widespread distrust of the Establishment – especially the BBC – and her growing impatience with the Carter administration

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Thatcher and Carter: the not-so special relationship (Daily Telegraph)

This Week in Nature (GenomeWeb News)

A news article in Nature looks into the problems inherited by the new FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg: “The FDA, once globally revered as the gold standard in regulation of food and medical-product safety, has lapsed repeatedly in recent years under a string of different leaders and a long stretch without any permanent chief,” the article says.

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This Week in Nature (GenomeWeb News)