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The Birth and Growth of Biotechnology, and the Impact of Biologic Drugs on Rheumatology

  |  Issue: June 2017  |  

Congress, the ball and the stick are back in your court. Are you prepared to use either?

Simon M. Helfgott, MDSimon M. Helfgott, MD, is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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