Does marijuana have a future in pharmacopoeia?
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چکیده
“In a highly mobile society, there is no way to contain a disease unless one considers the problem a global health issue,” commented Jessie Gruman, Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Health (Washington, DC, USA), a non-profit institute dedicated to translating research into practice and policy. “Infectious disease is no longer regional or owned by the poor; it gets on airplanes and can threaten the rest of the world in days,” she said. She hopes that SARS will be “the harbinger that provokes us to reexamine a health research enterprise that relies so heavily on the assumptions of commercial interests to translate its products for the benefit of society.” Indeed, although the technology needed to develop drugs and vaccines against SARS exists, appropriate incentives to bring them to market are lacking. One chief scientist of a biotech company noted in The New York Times (27 May 2003) that although his company has extensive experience in developing anti-viral drugs, it does not plan to develop a drug against SARS because it is unclear whether the disease will remain a health threat and therefore result in profits for the company.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- EMBO reports
دوره 4 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003