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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Food Crisis Requires “an End to Political Grandstanding”
Nature Biotechnology published an editorial in their March edition in which they state that averting a global food crisis will require the deconstruction of several hurdles to the deployment of new strategies in plant breeding. Last October, just 12 years after the 6 billionth person was born, the United Nations declared that 7 billion people now inhabit the earth. Of these 7 billion, close to a billion are chronically undernourished and another billion are malnourished. Read More >
India Compulsory License: A Times of India Article Says It’s Not Helping the Poor
India recently issued a compulsory license on Bayer’s liver and kidney cancer drug (Sorafenib) with the stated goal of providing access to India’s poor. However, the Times of India recently ran the article Cheap generics drugs no panacea for India’s poorest, quickly dispelling this myth: “The compulsory license system might not really work because poor people cannot even afford the discounted price,” said G. Balachandhran, former head of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), India’s drug Read More >
Abbott Laboratories: Keys for Partnering Success at the BIO International Convention
Thinking of hosting pre-qualified meetings at your BIO Exhibition booth during the 2012 BIO International Convention? Abbott Laboratories did just that at last year’s Convention and learned what it takes to succeed and secure high-quality leads. “The greatest value of partnering within our booth is that it allows us to drive traffic, activity and interest within our booth space,” said Michelle Calhoun, Abbott’s contract manufacturing sales and marketing director. During the 2011 Convention, Abbott hosted Read More >
Bringing Hope to Patients
No-one expected Hope Bartley to survive after she was born three months early. Thanks to extraordinary biotech medicine, she did. Alena Galan, age 14, is one of only a few thousand patients with a rare disease called MPS. Thanks to the hard work of leading biotech scientists and the approval of a new treatment, she now has a chance to lead a normal life. Lori Lober experienced the unthinkable when she was diagnosed with Stage Read More >
From Despair to Hope, a New World of Treatments
By David Welch, President and Senior Producer, M2 MultiMedia Communications Tonight, Wednesday March 28 at 9:00 EST, a documentary called From Despair to Hope, A New World of Treatments, will be broadcast on WUSA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C. It is sponsored by the Biotechnology Industry Organization. For me, producing this program was a yet another profound reminder of the contributions of biotechnology companies that are helping millions of patients throughout the world live hopeful Read More >
