UNU-MERIT meeting: Can world prize competitions foster more equitable drug research and development?
February 2, 2008 Leave a Comment
Challenging researchers through international prize competitions to come up with innovative medicines and ideas for improving global health can help break existing profit-driven patterns that produce mostly drugs for the rich, according to world experts attending a landmark meeting devoted to the topic.
More than 50 experts assembed in Maastricht Jan. 28-29 focused on how [...]
Iran: Arab separatist hanged, three more on death row
February 1, 2008 Leave a Comment
Prominent Iranian Arab separatist Zamel Bavi was hanged on Thursday in Ahwaz prison in the predominantly ethnic Arab province of Khuzestan on the Persian Gulf.
Three other separatist militants, Saiid Saki, Ali Mazraa, and Abdullah al-Mansouri await execution.
Bavi, Saki, Mazraa and al-Mansouri were convicted of ‘armed insurrection’ as were four other Iranian Arabs executed [...]
