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Newsweek on Shifting of Funding Priorities

April 03, 2005

The April 5, 2005 edition of Newsweek has an article about shifting of US funding from diseases that are common in developing countries to diseases that may be the result of bioterrorism.

Reichman is part of a vocal but largely unsung group of researchers who think politics and hype have hijacked the U.S. health agenda. They want to get back to what he calls the "real killers": TB, malaria, AIDS and a slew of more prosaic diseases that take 14 million lives a year. It's not going to be easy. These are the scourges of the world's poor, hardly the choice demographic for pharmaceutical companies or taxpayer-funded research.

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