Doctors may be able use an advanced X-ray called a CT scan to see whether patients with advanced colorectal cancer are responding to treatment with Avastin and chemotherapy, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. Full Article at The Post Chronicle

One of the commonest barriers to innovation is lack of time. People are just too busy doing their day job to spend time trying new things. The common assumption is that working hard and working long hours are good things and sufficient for success. Full Article at Associated Content

-- The expected rate of growth in royalty-bearing product sales by PDL's existing licensees; -- The relative mix of royalty-bearing products manufactured and sold outside the U.S. versus manufactured or sold in the U.S. ; -- The ability to... Full Article at Freshnews.com

Is the United States in inexorable economic decline, destined to be overshadowed by an emerging Chinese economic superpower? This seems to be a popular view among commentators of various political persuasions. Full Article at American Spectator

You find it “disturbing” that several Congressional representatives entered comments into the Congressional Record that were favorable to positions of the biotechnology company Genentech, and that some of these comments appeared to be taken verbatim... Full Article at The New York Times

Roche's Soirot worried about fixing what wasn't broken at Genentech Andy Freeberg Pascal Soriot, a senior executive with Roche (RHHBY), says he was wracked with anxiety while boarding a plane from Basel, Switzerland, to San Francisco last March. Full Article at Business Week