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Cancer drug may be next target

Dabur Pharma, an Indian drug company, can sell a generic drug for cancer patients at a price 20 times lower than the original drug, Public Health Minister Mongkol na Songkhla said yesterday during a working trip to the United Kingdom. ...full story at The Nation

from The Nation on Tue, Jun 26 2007

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