Tag Archives: United States Supreme Court

Supreme Court Considers the Affordable Care Act

By Reid Paul | Published: April 9, 2012
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Supreme Court: Prometheus Decision a Harbinger for Myriad?

By Ben Comer | Published: March 21, 2012
In judging the Prometheus patents invalid, the Supreme Court may have shown its hand on the upcoming Myriad Genetics case. In a unanimous decision on Tuesday, the Supreme Court stripped two Prometheus patents on the grounds that the company didn’t go far enough beyond merely identifying a natural law. Natural laws – a product [...]
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When Big Pharma Leaves Town

By Walter Armstrong | Published: November 16, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Wall Street smiles when a drug company gets with the program by “restructuring” and “rightsizing”—cutting costs through headline-grabbing layoffs. But for Main Street, the story of hundreds or thousands of sales reps, say, and researchers getting kicked to the curb is quite different. The two gi-normous mergers that closed in the past month offer [...]
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