Adding a medicine to the WHO model list of essential medicines

S. O. Kishore; B. J. Herbstman

doi:10.1038/clpt.2008.258

Adding a medicine to the WHO model list of essential medicines

S. O. Kishore
, B. J. Herbstman

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Abstract

Although the concept of essential medicines is not new, the processes that lead to placement of these medicines on the World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines are not well understood. Here, we describe the process by which we added a class of drugs, statins, to the Model List to help combat the growing global epidemic of cardiovascular disease.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	237-239
Number of pages	3
Journal	Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Volume	85
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/clpt.2008.258
State	Published - Mar 2009
Externally published	Yes

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