The Good, Bad, Ugly of Midwest Biotech in 2003
Lets start with the good in Midwest biotech in 2003. Whats clearly striking is the outstanding performance of the publicly traded Midwest biotech companies as measured by the ePrairie Midwest Biotech Index, which evaluates the top 20 biotech stocks of the region. Last week, I commented on the stellar performance of the Nasdaq and Amex Biotech indices, which grew...Growth: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
A risk capital financier with a portfolio perspective knows that many of her investments will fail. The winners have to generate high returns to make up for the losers. Some simple calculations suggest that given a 25-35% annualized return requirement, the winners will have to return 10-20 times what was invested (i.e. a $50,000 investment returns $500,0...Doctors at risk- the ugly side of the noble profession
A recent study shows that doctors are amongst the top victims of workplace crime. They are often threatened and abused by relatives of patients who die during treatment. Without going into who is right and who is wrong the report says doctors are targeted and sometimes made to pay a very heavy price if things go wrong.Calling it the ugly side of the noble profession, the study says that d...Vitamin Supplements - Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Followers of trendy health programmes that involve high doses of vitamins and minerals// are allowing themselves to be used as unwitting 'guinea pigs', according to British researchers. No one knows what adverse long term effects there might be from taking supplements at the levels promoted by some alternative therapists and celebrities, warned dietician Catherine Collins....Vitamin E: good, bad or ugly???
All the hullabaloo about the goodness of Vitamin E is about to receive a jolt as there are contradictions about it now.Researchers at Ohio State University who studied how two forms of vitamin E act once they are inside animal cells// have proposed the hypothesis. In the past couple of decades, benefits of vitamin E and other antioxidants has been extensively studied. Most of it in the...Bird Flu Raises Its Ugly Head in Jalgaon and Madhya Pradesh
Jalgaon is in the eye of the storm once again, with confirmed cases of bird-flu in six villages of Jalgaon district in Maharashtra. Following the bird-flu notification// in four villages in the district, during the II week of March, samples were sent to High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal which has confirmed that seven samples had tested positive for the H5 virus. Accord...