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.
2 PREFACE Vitamin A deficiency affects 190 million; pre-school children in the World Health Organization (WHO) regions of Africa and South East Asia 1. In South Africa in particular, 63.6 % of children age 1-9 years were found to be vitamin A deficient in 2005 National Food consumption survey.Vitamin A deficiency is a major contributor to under-five mortality and can cause visual impairment and increase the risk to illness and death due to measles and diarrhoea..2. Situational Analysis of Vitamin A supplementation in South Africa The Department of Health launched a national vitamin A supplementation (VAS) program in 2001 following the 1994 SAVACG survey which showed that vitamin A deficiency was a public health problem in South Africa.