Financial Times gets it right

This weekend's headline was on a compromise made in the WTO which allows more patent-protected drugs to get to the impoverished. The article was too short, but at least some recognition was given the subject's importance. It makes me wonder if patents could be based more on "free market" value rather than strict time limits. If patents weren't horded so closely, and the motivation for piracy was lessened by more inherent flexibility, we might all benefit.

Universal Health Care Action Network

Physicians for a National Health Program - Health Care is a Human Right: "



'Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else.' - Bertrand Russel "

Alzheimer's Breakthroughs

ScienceDaily News Release: Toxic Protein Could Explain Alzheimer's And Lead To Breakthroughs

statesman.com | Smallpox vaccinations seem effective for life: "










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By Jeff Nesmith



WASHINGTON BUREAU



Sunday, August 17, 2003




WASHINGTON %u2014 Americans vaccinated for smallpox 50 or more years ago may still be immune to the disease, scientists said Sunday.




Scientists have feared that immunity to the disease has 'run out' for people vaccinated prior to the mid-1970s, when vaccinations ended in America."