Access to essential medicines is problematic for one third of all persons worldwide. The price of many medicines (i.e., drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics) is unaffordable to the majority of the population in need, especially in least-developed countries, but also increasingly in middle-income countries. Several innovative approaches, based on partnerships, intellectual property, and pricing, are...

In addition to the oral presentations, nine poster presentations were displayed and viewed by conference delegates throughout the day. For the ®rst time, delegates of a DURG conference were given the opportunity to participate in an electronic voting system to obtain their views on a number of key issues relevant to the availability of medicines within the new NHS. Voting was repeated following...

multi-drug therapy in high blood pressure is appreciated to achieve a normalblood pressure.a simple spectrophotometric method based on principal component analysis has been proposed for simultaneous determination of amlodipine (amd) and metoprolol(met) in pharmacutical preparations. calibration matrix contains 3.402 µgml -1 to 170.130 µgml -1 and from 13.060 µgml -1 to 65.3 µgml -1 amlodipine a...