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Amgen aims to restock its medicine cabinet

Amgen Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops medicines used in the treatment of cancer, kidney disease, arthritis, bone disease and other serious illnesses. The Thousand Oaks company's top-selling products include arthritis medication Enbrel,...

Tags: Anemia, Chemical Industry, Biotechnology Industry, Diseases and Illnesses, Arthritis

The red herring of human gene patents

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Louis D. Brandeis Just a few words and little thought separate yet another stronghold of the American economy from ruin....

Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry, Abraham Lincoln, Biotechnology, Science and Technology

“Cycling High”: Inside the Lance Armstrong scandal

After many winters of discontent, the best of times for Kostner

LONDON, ONT. -- A decade ago, Carolina Kostner was the ingénue of the World Figure Skating Championships, a 16-year-old Italian who bounded around the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. like a frolicsome fawn as Michelle Kwan won her last of five world...

Tags: Human Interest, Italy, Awards and Prizes, Rentals, Ice Skating

Lance lied to Oprah, anti-doping agency tells ‘60 Minutes’

Proudly confessing

NEW YORK -- To the world-weary, Lance Armstrong's confession to Oprah was just one more in a series. The process of public contrition is by now yawningly familiar: Comfortably seated in front of cameras, the high priestess of the mea culpa faces the...

Tags: Livestrong Foundation, James Frey, Human Interest, Lance Armstrong, Oprah Winfrey

Lance Armstrong mea culpa is a dagger through the heart

It was a glorious day in 1993 when Lance Armstrong won America's top professional bicycle race, the annual CoreStates U.S. Pro Cycling Championship in Philadelphia. My wife and I were there and we were just a few feet from the award ceremonies after the...

Tags: Marty Nothstein, Floyd Landis, Lance Armstrong, Road Race Cycling, Sports

Armstrong emotional when recalling talk with son

CHICAGO (AP) — Lance Armstrong finally cracked. Not while expressing deep remorse or regrets, though there was plenty of that in Friday night's second part of Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey. It wasn't over the $75 million in...

Tags: Livestrong Foundation, Testicular Cancer, Lance Armstrong, Jonathan Vaughters, Sports

Lance Armstrong reveals his most humbling moment to Oprah

Lance Armstrong admitted in the second half of his highly touted interview with Oprah Winfrey that the most humbling moment in his fall from athletic superstar grace was the moment in November 2012 when he severed all ties with Livestrong, the cancer...

Tags: Livestrong Foundation, Testicular Cancer, Cycling, Lance Armstrong, Tour de France

Insurer studies legal options after Lance Armstrong admits doping

The company that paid Lance Armstrong a multimillion-dollar settlement after initially balking to pay him Tour de France bonuses amid doping allegations in 2004 announced Friday it could very well revisit that judgment. Dallas-based SCA Promotions...

Tags: Floyd Landis, Greg LeMond, Lance Armstrong, Alicia Keys, Sports

Armstrong admits doping: 'I'm a flawed character'

CHICAGO (AP) — He did it. He finally admitted it. Lance Armstrong doped. He was light on the details and didn't name names. He mused that he might not have been caught if not for his comeback in 2009. And he was certain his "fate was sealed"...

Tags: Livestrong Foundation, U.S. Department of Justice, World Anti-Doping Agency, Floyd Landis, Lance Armstrong

Reaction from Lance Armstrong's Oprah interview

Tags: Livestrong Foundation, Chad Johnson, Lance Armstrong, Oprah Winfrey Show (tv program), Mike Anderson