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Cover Story
By Claire Dietz and Paul Goldberg
Pharmacy benefit managers, like climate change, germs and, possibly, God, are all around, and if we could clear a few hours, it would be good to learn enough about them to sustain a cocktail party conversation.
In Brief
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Funding Opportunities
Clinical Roundup
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Drugs & Targets
NCI Trials
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NCI Trials for April
The National Cancer Institute Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program approved the following clinical research studies last month.
Trending Stories
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- Infections are a major cause of death in patients treated with CAR T-cell therapy
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- In 1971, Chris Lundy had minute odds of survival. He is now the longest living BMT recipient at the Hutch
- How Beth Carner went from six weeks left to live with stage 4 colon cancer to complete remission
- NCI’s new chief data scientist Warren Kibbe tells us about efforts to get “AI-ready”
“All research now involves data science at some level.”