

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


Funding Opportunities
Clinical Roundup


Drugs & Targets
NCI Trials


NCI Trials for April
The National Cancer Institute Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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