Drug industry, nonprofits join forces to fight world's neglected diseases
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 03:56
in Health & Medicine
Drug companies and nonprofit organisations are joining forces to develop new drugs and vaccines to target so-called 'neglected' diseases that claim millions of lives in the developing world each year. Those hard-to-treat diseases include malaria, tuberculosis, dengue fever, and other conditions. That's the topic of the cover story scheduled for the current issue of Chemical and Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine...