I found this on another blog - the idea was made up by a group from the Boston healthcare community - the idea is: The Idea: I found this on another blog - the idea was made up by a group from the Boston healthcare community - the idea is: The Idea:
The idea is to rapidly develop affordable, new therapies for major diseases by conducting clinical trials with combinations of generic or unpatented substances. Pharmaceutical companies will not conduct such trials, since they will not be able to recover their investments. Without evidence from such trials, doctors will be reluctant to prescribe such medicines and health insurance will not cover their cost. We estimate this idea will reduce suffering and save millions of lives within a few years.
It's entitled New Affordable Cancer Treatments -and we are encouraged to provide links on our blogs, facebook accounts etc. You can find more info on it where I did at: http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2008/09/cool-technology-of-week_26.html
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