The courage to change the rules: A Proposal for an essential health R&D treaty
...is month's PLoS Medicine , is a new international treaty on essential health research and development (R&D) that would "provide a binding framework to redirect today's knowledge and scientific expertise to priority needs." The treaty, they say, would focus directly on R&D rather than patent rights or drug...European nations urged to ratify international treaty on tobacco control
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