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...years ago, Mohammad Omidian, 58, a general contractor from Orinda, Calif., had failed to respond to chemotherapy treatments for multiple myeloma that was eating away at his bones. He had shrunk 3 in. and was so weak, he says, "I could not sneeze without holding on to something." His doctors put him on Dendreon's experimental treatment Mylovenge, which required extracting dendritic cells from Omidian's blood, mixing them with molecules from myeloma cells and then returning them to the patient so they could deliver a swift kick to his immune system. Within two weeks, Omidian felt strong enough...
...years ago, Mohammad Omidian, 58, a general contractor from Orinda, Calif., had failed to respond to chemotherapy treatments for multiple myeloma that was eating away at his bones. He had shrunk 3 in. and was so weak, he says, "I could not sneeze without holding on to something." His doctors put him on Dendreon’s experimental treatment Mylovenge, which required extracting dendritic cells from Omidian’s blood, mixing them with molecules from myeloma cells, and then returning them to him so they could deliver a swift kick to his immune system. Within two weeks, Omidian felt strong enough...
...sell the consumers websites, Dash needed to go back a step: turns out that a lot of inner-city African Americans still didn't own computers. So DME's new goal became filling that need by selling low-cost computers in the urban marketplace, in effect acting as general contractor in the project to build a bridge over the digital divide...
...staff writer, said that the candidates had all but ignored certain regulatory issues, such as minor changes in the tax code, which could have a disproportionate effect on women. For example, there has been discussion of lengthening the 40-hour work week and changing the definition of an independent contractor...
...late-blooming gourmet, Kuleto, 55, first got into the restaurant business through the service entrance. He started as a busboy, waiter and cook, then worked as a contractor. When business got slow, he offered to design some steak houses for free if the owner let him build them. Despite a lack of formal training, the burly carpenter had an intuitive feel for creating dramatic, bustling environments that complemented rather than competed with the food. By the time his '50s-style Fog City Diner (in his home base of San Francisco) caught critics' eyes in 1984, Kuleto had thrown away...