It started it. It essentially was the industry which was unpacking the biology of cells and understanding how those biology cells could be used to make new medicines, a little different from what pharma was an pharma in the past was essentially trying out medicines on animals and seeing if they work and then put them into a human being a Clinical Trial process once we understood how the genes work, once we knew how to manipulate those jeans, a whole new ability to transform what we knew about cells into medicines came into being. This was areal revolution , and about in the 70s and walked through to the 80s and then now today there are approximately a couple thousand companies, about 700 of whom are members of bio, many are private. They are now much smaller industries in the europe and in asia and actually, these Small Companies although they are tiny and they represent no more than any one of the Big Companies in terms of numbers, theyre generating about 70 70 percent of all the medi
We will speak with a local pastor who was shot on wednesday by a rubber bullet. We will also speak with radley balko, author of, rise of the warrior cop the militarization of Americas Police forces. Then to ebola in west africa. 1000 thats . The World Health Organization says that number fastly underestimates the scale of the outbreak. The debate over using experimental drugs to help halt the epidemic. Was an agreement among the experts that the special circumstances of this Ebola Outbreak, it is ethical to author unregistered interventions as potential treatment or prevention. There are caveats. The panel said the criteria must always guide such prevention. We will speak with samestore journalistscience Laurie Garrett, Lawrence Gostin, and adia benton. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Joined in a0 Cities National moment of silence thursday night to honor the memory of 18yearold Michael Brown. The unarm
Now missouris governor has put the Highway Patrol in charge of security. Tension is easing as the police put away their right gear. We will speak with a local pastor who was shot on wednesday by a rubber bullet. We will also speak with radley balko, author of, rise of the warrior cop the militarization of Americas Police forces. Then to ebola in west africa. 1000 thats . The World Health Organization says that number fastly underestimates the scale of the outbreak. The debate over using experimental drugs to help halt the epidemic. Was an agreement among the experts that the special circumstances of this Ebola Outbreak, it is ethical to author unregistered interventions as potential treatment or prevention. There are caveats. The panel said the criteria must always guide such prevention. We will speak with samestore journalistscience Laurie Garrett, Lawrence Gostin, and adia benton. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im
Now missouris governor has put the Highway Patrol in charge of security. Tension is easing as the police put away their right gear. We will speak with a local pastor who was shot on wednesday by a rubber bullet. We will also speak with radley balko, author of, rise of the warrior cop the militarization of Americas Police forces. Then to ebola in west africa. 1000 thats . The World Health Organization says that number fastly underestimates the scale of the outbreak. The debate over using experimental drugs to help halt the epidemic. Was an agreement among the experts that the special circumstances of this Ebola Outbreak, it is ethical to author unregistered interventions as potential treatment or prevention. There are caveats. The panel said the criteria must always guide such prevention. We will speak with samestore journalistscience Laurie Garrett, Lawrence Gostin, and adia benton. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im
Doesnt understand memorial day. He has no connection to memorial day. He doesnt know that it began as Decoration Day in 1868, when we honored our war dead by decorating their graves at Arlington National cemetery. Memorial day didnt become an official federal holiday until 1971, but the tradition of decorating war graves never stopped. I did it when i was a little kid in boston. My daughter did it. When she was a girl scout. And her group planted small american flags at a los angeles Veterans Cemetery in westwood. I called my mother from that cemetery, knowing that she would want to know what her granddaughter was doing there, was planting those flags. And when my mother thought about the people that she lost in world war ii on that phone call, she cried as if it were yesterday. Many of us have someone we think about on memorial day. Some veterans have many people they think about on memorial day. I think about my cousin johnny. He was the biggest of all of us in every way. I idolized