Canada is on the verge of becoming the first nation to honour a World Trade Organization (wto) pledge on making available cheap generic drugs for hiv/aids-afflicted people in developing countries.
The pharmaceutical industry in South Africa (sa) is threatening to shut up shop unless the country's government rethinks its new drug policy. The policy has been in place since January 2004. It
A us scientist, who triggered a bioterrorism scare by illegally shipping back bubonic plague samples he collected from Tanzania last year, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment by a Texas