Anyone who has benefited from an MRI exam, a new drug therapy or a high-tech surgical procedure knows the value of biomedical innovation.

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There is no procedure for writing down the value of such loans, no matter how questionable their worth.

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The results appear unlikely to resolve the ongoing controversy over the value, or lack of value, of this procedure, but, as an accompanying editorial states, both advocates and critics of PFO closure will find source material for their arguments in these papers.

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Superglass also warned "if for any reason the refinancing does not proceed, it is likely that existing shareholders' ordinary shares would have no value and that the company would likely enter into administration or some other form of insolvency procedure".

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