Drug Industry, Nonprofits Join Forces to Fight World's Neglected Diseases
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 11:21
in Health & Medicine
Drug companies and nonprofit organizations 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 & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine.