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How Storytelling Can Help With Measuring Impact For Your Social Enterprise

How can we measure impact of a social enterprise through storytelling?

The Endless Cost Of Maligning Abortion

Research shows that denying women family planning care has a substantial toll on their livelihoods, children and families, and society as a whole.

Walgreens: Microsoft Scientists Working On ‘Store Of The Future’

Walgreens Boots Alliance said Microsoft is engaged in a “research project” focused on improving the drugstore chain’s data capabilities to create the “store of the future.”

Rebates And Drug Costs: What The New Proposal Would Mean

Pulling back the curtain on the hidden deals that drive up prices for consumers at the pharmacy counter.

Repurposing Drugs Offers A Lifeline For Rare Disease Patients

Discovering new uses for old medicines, called drug repurposing, offers hope of treatments for thousands of patients. It is also faster and less expensive than traditional drug development.

Malta Stakes A Claim As Tech Hub For Medical Cannabis

As medical cannabis legislation and regulation loosen, a tranche of evangelists, entrepreneurs and investors are rapidly forming an ecosystem that countries such as Malta are welcoming.

Your Risk of Prostate Cancer Just Dropped Precipitously. Here’s Why

Most men diagnosed with prostate cancer don’t die of the disease. The huge disparity between deaths and diagnoses arises in large part from over-diagnosis of prostate cancer, as a consequence of screening tests that find cancers that would not have pro…

Big Doctor Group Supports Medicare And Medicaid ‘Buy Ins’

The American College of Physicians is supporting Medicare and Medicaid “buy in” proposals emerging in Congress and in several states across the country.

Third Rock And ARCH-Backed Genetics Startup Launches With Nearly $200 Million

Maze Therapeutics, a South San Francisco startup, launched with funding from Third Rock Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, GV and others, with a goal of identifying genetic modifiers to develop new drugs.

Fast Food Is Less Healthy Today Than 30 Years Ago, Analysis Finds

While the marketing of healthier offerings may be getting better, fast food overall is less healthy now than anytime in the last three decades, a new analysis finds.