Pricey Trials Turn Up Few New Blockbusters
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The $500 billion drug industry is stumbling badly in its core business of finding new medicines, while aggressively marketing existing drugs.
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We test this next-generation DVD technology, and get mixed results.
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The first big trial of a DNA test to detect colon cancer proved disappointing to those hoping for an easy and accurate new screening method.
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Promising trials for a hepatitis C treatment bode well for the pharmaceutical.
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Summer's over, school is back, but the consolation of fall was always that the best films, shows, CDs and books were ripe for picking. Now there's too much competition, too much stuff. How to figure out what's worthy? Here is a warts-and-all preview, arranged from sublime to subprime.
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Different business models, same path to success -- make good movies.
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Hollywood delivered an unprecedented number of sequels this summer. But only three films combined critical approval with box office success.
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Faced with weak development pipelines that are putting a drag on stock prices, drug manufacturers are retooling the decades-old system of clinical trials to make it faster and cheaper.
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Wired's list of must-see movies you don't have to pay a cent for.
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Averse to risk? Check out these nontraditional drug companies.
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A drug approved last year as a last-ditch hope for some lung cancer patients who didn&#39;t find relief from other forms of therapy has come up short in a large clinical trial.
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It's running trials to see if the drug can be used in earlier stages of cancer.
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Slim gains from low-latency RAM don't justify a steep price.
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Netflix and Blockbuster make nice, but it can't be nice.
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Blockbuster&#39;s saber rattling is the latest salvo in a bidding war for Hollywood. Blockbuster values its bid at around US$1 billion: $700 million in cash, plus the assumption of $300 million in debt.
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Cities may be safer, but Hollywood hopes new movies about quests for justice play to other fears.
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A frighteningly expensive drug of marginal efficacy begets triple-digit multiples? Bring on the miracles.