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By Lee Roop

HUNTSVILLE, AL - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama said Friday it will continue paying the full cost of three cancer drugs, including a life-saving breast cancer medication, despite reports it would cut reimbursements to below the drugs' market price.

Paying less than market value would have meant doctors lost money every time they administered Avastin, Rituxan and Herceptin, the three drugs in question, which women's health advocates say would have meant less access to the medications statewide.

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By Lee Roop

HUNTSVILLE, AL - America faces a growing biological threat from rogue nations and terrorists, a leading biologist told Huntsville's first biodefense symposium Tuesday night.

Under the right circumstances, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands could die in a biological attack, said Dr. Jerry Jaax of Kansas State University

"There's a reason for all of this," Jaax said of the symposium.

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By Michael Hansberry

Employees from HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology visited Bob Jones High School Sept. 29 to help a special-needs class extract DNA from strawberries, kiwis and peaches.

The activity was part of Charlene Sandford’s delayed development class study of cells.

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By Deborah Bennick

Drug developed in Huntsville could spare pain medication users from a constipation side-effect.

To read the article about Nektar Therapeutics' NKTR-118 drug, download the attached PDF or visit the original article in The Huntsville Times R&D Report.