A promising prognosis; Drugs for poor countries.(More drugs for poor countries)

New hope in developing drugs for the poor

"BIG pharmaceuticals...right up there with the arms dealers," says a character in "The Constant Gardener", a newly released film of John le Carre's novel about drugmakers' dodgy dealings in Africa). In fact, as well as fiction, pharmaceutical firms have been lambasted for their approach towards the developing world--be it prices and patents hampering access to existing medicines, or negligible investment in new drugs for diseases that mainly afflict the poorer parts of the planet.

But research by Mary Moran and her ...

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