The federal government plans to give the exclusive license for a new liver cancer drug to a pharmaceutical company owned by Chinaâs 63rd-richest man, HuffPost has learned. The National Institutes of Health proposes to grant Salubris Biotherapeutics, Inc. exclusive worldwide rights to a portfolio of patents on antibody drugs used to treat liver cancer, according to a notice published Monday on the Federal Register.
Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness and is critical to achieving Millennium Development Goal 4:2 to reduce child mortality.revalence of vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a lack of vitamin A in humans. It is common in poorer countries but rarely seen in more developed countries. Nyctalopia (night blindness) is one of the first signs of VAD.
most of the vitamins are closely associated with a corresponding vitamin deficiency disease vitamin d deficiency leads to diseases of the bones such as osteoporosis and rickets vitamin e deficiency occurs only rarely and causes nerve damagevitamin a deficiency is common throughout the poorer parts of the world and causes night blindness severe vitamin a deficiency can result in xerophthalamia a disease which if left untreated results in total blindnessitamin e deficiency occurs only rarely and causes nerve damage vitamin a deficiency is common throughout the poorer parts of the world and causes night blindness severe vitamin a deficiency can result in xerophthalamia a disease which if left untreated results in total blindness