'Neglected' diseases neglected no more
Monday, April 20, 2009 - 05:49
in Health & Medicine
A non-profit offshoot of famed Nobel Prize winning Medecins sans Frontieres is joining hands with pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and private donors in a new assault on neglected diseases. Those hard-to-treat diseases include leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness, and Chagas disease. These conditions infect millions of people worldwide each year, killing thousands. An article on this development is scheduled for the April 20 issue of Chemical and Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine...
