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Offshoring Trends Net Biotech Firms
Makarand writes "According to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, BioTech, once considered to be
the next innovative sector to help offset the jobs losses from IT offshoring, is
showing
signs of riding an
offshoring wave of its own. Foreign governments with a national
priority to attract biotech businesses with highly trained research workers and new
research centers are the new forces to reckon with in preventing the
exodus of biotech
jobs. Drug developers are looking at ways to cut costs of drug development as Americans and their employers are starting to constantly worry about the high price of prescription drugs. The lower costs of clinical trials and the ease with which human subjects can be recruited for drug tests in other countries are making biotech jobs susceptible to offshoring."
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How does the US prescription system work? Are doctors prescribing branded drugs over cheaper, generic drugs in order to receive funding from drug companies?
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CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Lara Roxx, the first innocent victim of the HIV firestorm
sweeping through the adult industry, never wanted to be the center of
attention.
When she arrived in L.A. in mid-March from Montreal, on a ticket paid for with
borrowed funds, her short brown hair streaked with pink, all she wanted to do
was perform in enough scenes to create a nest-egg that she could take back to
Canada and use to go on with her life.
Instead, she's now broke, jobless and had been staying with friends, and if
the tests come back Saturday evening as she's hoping they won't,
HIV-positive.
"My manager [Daniel Perrault] woke me up on that morning that they all found
out," Roxx told AVN.com. "I was very upset on that day; I don't even
remember what day it was."
It was Tuesday, April 13, the day the news broke that popular performer Darren
James had contracted HIV - the first active performer on the straight side of
the industry to do so in nearly five years.
But for Roxx, the story started two months earlier.
It was around February 10, 2004. Roxx had been performing, mostly for
Canadian-based Internet sites, for exactly one month, and she was about to do
her first boy/girl scene for an American video feature.
"When I first walked into Daniel Perrault's office, I told him what I was
ready to do, and he told me he wasn't ready to represent me under those
conditions," Roxx stated on April 16. "I told him I wasn't interested in
anal at all, and I was a little freaky about the no-condom thing, too. I'm
educated about the STDs since I'm in grade 3. I was educated about condoms. I
knew I didn't want any STDs. I was protecting myself in the proper ways to
not catch STDs, the ways I was taught."
But though she'd been a dancer for three years, Roxx wasn't very familiar
with the adult video industry, and she admits that later, when she decided to
accept offers to do scenes in L.A., Perrault advised her that he thought she
was too innocent to survive the U.S. porn scene.
Perrault nonetheless brought Roxx into contact with director Marc Anthony, who
was reportedly in Montreal scouting for talent, and he in turn introduced her
to his actors, Darren James and Max Black. Roxx thinks there was another actor,
possibly Canadian, named Max who was also present.
Perrault had arranged for Roxx to have an HIV test, but she's not sure what
kind of test that was; just that blood was drawn for it.
"Really, that's a question for Daniel Perrault or the lab where I took my
test," Roxx responded. "I think it's AIM's equivalent in Canada, but we
don't have to test for Chlamydia or gonorrhea; we only test for syphilis and
HIV."
Patricia Petite, who also works with Perrault, is said to have been working
with an ELISA test. Petite is on the first-generation A list, those who had
sexual contact with James.
At this point, Roxx doesn't know whether the test was PCR-DNA or ELISA, but
when she flew to Los Angeles a few weeks later, at the urging of L.A.-based
manager Thomas Hope, one of the first things she did was go to AIM for a new
PCR-DNA test, and that was negative for HIV.
"There's a rumor out there that I might have given him [Darren] the
virus," Roxx noted, "and I don't care about what people say because I
know the truth and that's what's important to me."
The executive director of AIM, Dr. Sharon Mitchell, confimed today that James'
is still believed to be the source of the HIV-virus, and he is believed to have
obtained the virus from Brazil.
Now freshly tested, Roxx was booked for some scenes for Devil's Films... and
then she got another offer from Marc Anthony for March 24.
"When I got there, me and Marc had a little conversation, because Thomas Hope
told me I was going to do a d.p., and so I get there and Marc Anthony tells me
it's a d.a., which stands for double anal, " Roxx recalled. "And I'm
like
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I have been really turned of reading Slashdot's comments section today. It seems that there are more junk posts vying for attention than ones that are actually interested to discuss the subject matter. I think as slashdot gets more popular, there will be more of these. Perhaps one day I would just stop reading slashdot for any intelligent discussion whatsoever; there are just too many shit to plough through. I hope this
day will not arrive.
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