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| Title: | Adding a Medicine to WHO Model List of Essential Medicines |
| Authors: | Kishore, Sandeep
Herbstman, Benjamin |
| Keywords: | Essential Medicines
WHO Model List of Essential Medicines List
Statins |
| Issue Date: | Mar-2009 |
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group; Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics |
| Citation: | Clin. Pharmacol. Ther. 2009. March; 85(3): 237-9 |
| Abstract: | Although the concept of essential medicines is not new, the processes that lead to placement of these medicines on the World
Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines are not well understood. Here, we describe the process by which we added a class of drugs, statins, to the Model List to help combat the growing global epidemic of cardiovascular disease. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1813/12139 |
| Appears in Collections: | Medical College Research and Papers
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