Confusion over Article 8

Confusion over Article 8

690 We enjoyed reading Andrea Rinaldi’s article, ‘Adopting an orphan’ (EMBO Rep 6: 507–510), on regulations that aim to stimulate the research and development of medicines for rare diseases. We would like to congratulate the author on the quality of the article in general and on highlighting this important health problem. However, Rinaldi stated that Emerging Biopharmaceutical Enterprises (EBE)...

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We investigated the in vitro effect of the essential oil of Croton nepetifolius Baill., Euphorbiaceae (EOCN), on spontaneous or induced contractions of circular and longitudinal muscles from the ovine cervix during the luteal phase of the estrous cycle. The relaxant effect of EOCN was expressed as a percentage of the contraction recorded before the addition of the oil and calculated relative to...

Article: Confusion Inside Panum’s Area and Symptomatic Convergence Insufficiency

In the present study we compared the ability of commonly used diagnostic criteria for CI to discriminate between symptomatic pediatric patients and normal controls with corresponding sensitivity and specificity parameters of a novel test of Near Point of Fixation Disparity (NPFD) and a measure of Associated Positive Fusional Convergence (APFC). The results yielded 95% sensitivity and 100% speci...

India combats confusion over counterfeit drugs.

India, the leading supplier of low-cost generic drugs to Africa, has begun fi ghting back to counter the confusion surrounding counterfeit drugs in the region. A raft of new and proposed anti-counterfeit laws could potentially deprive Africa of aff ordable, essential medicines. The immediate cause of concern is Kenya’s Anti-Counterfeit Act 2008, which came into eff ect in July, 2009. The new la...

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