Top AIDS drugmakers drop South Africa suit
The world's biggest drug companies dropped their attempt to prevent South Africa from carrying out a law allowing the government to import and produce cheaper anti-AIDS drugs and other medicines.
The world's biggest drug companies dropped their attempt to prevent South Africa from carrying out a law allowing the government to import and produce cheaper anti-AIDS drugs and other medicines.
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Facing criticism that it cares more about promoting industry than protecting the environment, the Bush Administration has announced that it will go forward with a regulation proposed by President
Chris Cook, a transplanted Briton in Virginia, who is chief executive of Tobio, a start-up that plans to grow human proteins in what he calls "new generation tobacco." The proteins, he predicts,