The American Cancer Society and National Comprehensive Cancer Network Expert Consensus Guidelines recommend both surgery and radiation therapy as equally appropriate treatments for early-stage prostate cancer.
The screen has evolved over four years (it will take another leap forward in a few weeks), and the FORBES network of expert writers now totals 1, 000.
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They can round up a few in the Expert Network but others will follow.
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John Kinnucan would have probably been a better TV reality star than an expert network analyst.
The gig with expert network firm Primary Global was just some extra pocket change.
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The range of those prosecuted criminally range from billionaire Raj Rajaratnam to expert network consultant Winifred Jiau.
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Another person was sentenced to prison today in the insider trading case involving expert network firm Primary Global Research.
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Prosecutors' examination of researchers such as Mr. Kinnucan, as well as expert network firms has left investors wary about how to research stocks.
Clearly, the actions of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara indicate that he wants to send a message to those involved in the expert network and hedge fund industries.
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Noah Freeman is a cooperating witness and is awaiting sentencing for his role in getting inside information from consultants hired by the expert network firm Primary Global.
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Initially, it was focused on "expert network" companies, or middlemen firms that introduce hedge-fund employees to current and former tech-company staffers with knowledge of interest to investors.
Investigators are also looking into whether so-called consultants for expert network companies, which connect investors with employees of companies for a fee, have passed inside information to clients.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that individuals familiar with the case have confirmed that the expert network firm used in the scheme was Gerson Lerhman.
Martoma and Gilman, who was working on said clinical trials, were matched up by an expert network which SAC and its affiliate hedge funds paid to get information on companies they were following.
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Jiau, however, was the person who could monetize the shared information from the investment club very quickly, because she was being paid as a consultant by Primary Global, an expert network firm feeding information to hedge funds.
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However, in the insider trading case of James Fleishman of the expert network firm Primary Global, a jury conviction and a government recommended sentence of 84-108 months was not enough to convince presiding Judge Rakoff that a long prison term was appropriate.
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The relationship between Gilman and Martoma was facilitated by an expert network firm, an industry that has been at the heart of a number of insider trading cases brought by Preet Bharara in recent years, cases that have put the likes of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam behind bars.
Previously, criminal charges were filed against eight consultants and staff of Primary Global Research LLC, a California expert-network firm.
The expert-network companies say internal policies bar their consultants from disclosing confidential information.
Expert-network firms hire current or former company employees, as well as doctors and other specialists, to be consultants to funds making investment decisions.
These expert-network services connect money managers with people working in various fields, sometimes facilitating the exchange of insider-information that hedge funds have used to profit.
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So far, six defendants have pleaded guilty in the expert-network case.
In the expert-network investigation, the government recorded phone calls of public-company employees such as Mark Anthony Longoria, formerly of chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Its goals are to support consolidating European Standards on Media, to establish effective, functioning, self-regulatory mechanisms and to create a network of interested and expert contributors.
Prosecutors built another leg of the expert-network case, against former SAC Capital Advisors LLC manager Donald Longueuil, partly based on recordings that a friend and fellow fund manager secretly made of their conversations.
Of 112 individuals who responded to the survey the week of Dec. 20 from across the technology, investment and brokerage industries, about eight out of 10 said expert-network firms generally don't have the compliance standards they need to prevent experts from passing inside information to investors.
Anyone will be able to post an experience of their own, which puts the social in social network and differentiates it from expert driven magazine-style sites.
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"I think it's a very, very well-done news network, " said media expert and former White House correspondent Porter Bibb of Mediatech Capital Partners in New York, where he listens to a related network, Al Jazeera English, now available in a tiny fraction of U.S. markets.
Elop no doubt has an expert knowledge of software and network infrastructure.
At the same time, the entrepreneur feels less isolated thanks to expert advice provided by the angel network.
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