| ISSUE 1 – JAN. 3, 2014 |
Who Makes This Drug?Secretive Contract Manufacturing Arrangements Complicate Solutions to Shortages of Generics
By Rena M. ContiThe closing of Ben Venue Laboratories, a company that produces a large share of generic drugs used by America’s oncologists, brings into focus a little-understood business practice that exacerbates the problem of drug shortages and shows why the industry and federal regulators have been unable to resolve them. | Report to the Nation: Death Rates Continue To Decline Across All Major Disease SitesDeath rates continued to decline for all cancers combined for men and women of all major racial and ethnic groups and for most major cancer sites, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. Rates for both sexes combined decreased by 1.5 percent per year from 2001 through 2010. |
 | An Appreciation: Janet Rowley, “Translational Research Pioneer”Janet Rowley, a pioneer in connecting the development of cancer with genetic abnormalities, died from complications of ovarian cancer on Dec. 17 at her home. She was 88. |
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