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    The Drug Resurrector

    By Posted on 5.2.2008 1 Comments

    With Big Pharma spending upward of $1 billion to bring a single drug to pharmacy shelves, its little wonder that unprofitable afflictions like malaria and African sleeping sickness go largely ignored. Curtis Chong witnessed this neglect firsthand in 2001 as a third-year medical student working in an emergency room in Mozambique. Day and night, malaria patients lined up for treatment, but Chongs medication stockpile was often too low or too antiquated to treat drug-resistant strains of the disease, and people were dying. Six years later, the 31-year-old pharmacologist is spearheading an innovative way to bring better drugs, and more of them, to the developing world.

    5.5.2008 at 09:04pm - Comment by talkright

    Homeopathy can be a solution for this problem. As homeopathic system of treatment is symptomatic so medicine is given when symptoms meet.I patient has a symtoms of Malaria he is given the medicine which symptoms are similar to the patients symptoms, by this I mean that the patient is given such medicine which was tested on healthy person and which caused him sypmtoms of Malaria like sincona bark/China off. I am myself a homeopath and I treat 13 different types of patients with Nux Vomica if symptoms meet.And Pulsatilla is useful to treat more than 60 types of ailments if symptoms say so. Homeopathic medicines are tested on human beings No single homeopathic medicine has been rejected for the last 200 years. talkright 04 May 2008 Lets make the world peaceful



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