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News feature: Trials and tribulations : Article : Nature Medicine
More than you wanted to know about Tuberculosis, this series of short reports published in Nature Medicine is open to the public and quite readable. Be prepared for a shock, however, it is a grim picture and points up the foolishness of Daddy Warbucks economics where serious disease is concerned.
Two million deaths a year, over 1/3 of the world's population carries the Mycoplasma Tuberculosis bacillus. With privatization of pharmacological research, there is little incentive to find a cure to a problem that afflicts primarily the poor or to find anything more than expensive palliation for the cancer that afflicts the rich --- hello!
More than you wanted to know about Tuberculosis, this series of short reports published in Nature Medicine is open to the public and quite readable. Be prepared for a shock, however, it is a grim picture and points up the foolishness of Daddy Warbucks economics where serious disease is concerned.
Two million deaths a year, over 1/3 of the world's population carries the Mycoplasma Tuberculosis bacillus. With privatization of pharmacological research, there is little incentive to find a cure to a problem that afflicts primarily the poor or to find anything more than expensive palliation for the cancer that afflicts the rich --- hello!
posted by Clancy Hughes | 6/01/2007 10:33:00 PM
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