Drug industry, nonprofits join forces to fight world's neglected...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 11/10/2009 - 23:00

(American Chemical Society) 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.

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