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[Huliq: Breaking News] WHO: Drug Companies Ignore Neglected Diseases The head of the World Health Organization says more must be done to cure "neglected" diseases that...
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[Time.blogs.com] TIME.com: The TIME Global Health Blog - Susanna's Story: The R&D Appeal launched in June 2005 by the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), its founding partners, Oxfam, and the BIOS initiative, urges governments to take greater leadership in R&D on neglected diseases. In just over 10 months, more than 5,900 scientists, policy-makers, industry and NGO members (including 19 Nobel laureates) have signed onto the Appeal.
[Emednews.org] Essential Medicines News: Preliminary results for the use of eflornithine with nifurtimox against sleeping sickness have led the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to call for greater access to these drugs before the clinical trials have completed. While the WHO is waiting for trial results to approve the combined use of these drugs for sleeping sickness, the trial itself is enrolling additional patients in an effort to achieve greater access before the trials are completed.
[Allaboutflu.blogspot.com] Avian (Bird) Flu Secret Archive: Potential drug compounds against avian flu are now being identified and ranked according to the binding energies of the docked models.The computers used in the UK came from the Universities of Brunel, Birmingham, Durham, Edinburgh, Imperial College London, Lancaster, Manchester, Oxford, Royal Holloway University of London, University College London, and CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. They are all part of the GridPP project, which runs the UK particle physics Grid.Professor Keith Mason, CEO of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), which funds GridPP says, "This project is a clear example of how developments in basic research can support wider applications.
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