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Why regular cancer screening might be overkill

The number of cancer diagnostics companies these days seems innumerable, each hawking a new way to screen some subset of the populace for a grave disease. Their argument? Early diagnosis = early intervention = avoiding early death. But a great piece from FiveThirtyEight counters the idea of broad-scale cancer screening. It cites South Korea as a […]

Pharma

Samsung, Biogen Idec form $300M biosimilars joint venture

Samsung Biologics, the drug manufacturing business that a South Korean conglomerate formed earlier this year with the help of pharmaceutical services firm Quintiles, is partnering on a $300 million initiative with Biogen Idec (NASDAQ:BIIB). The joint venture, which will be based in South Korea, will develop, manufacture and market biosimilars, biological products that are similar […]

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