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Welcome back: Amazon will require employees to return to the office five days per week beginning next year, toughening a prior three-day mandate. The change is necessary to “invent, collaborate and be connected,” writes CEO Andy Jassy in a letter to employees on Monday posted to its website. He said the experience of a three-day mandate “strengthened our conviction about the benefits” of in-office work. Read more from Reuters.
Treatment options: Drugmakers are betting that delivering radiation directly to tumors will become the next big cancer breakthrough. Bristol Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and other pharmaceutical companies have spent some $10 billion on deals to acquire or work with radiopharmaceutical makers. They’ve snapped up smaller upstarts to get their hands on technology that, while in its infancy, could treat numerous cancers. Read more from CNBC.