[opensourcepharma] Links for Aug 6th 2014

[Matthew Todd]

[A reminder to the Bellagio folks: if you've papers/links/questions of
general interest to open source pharma people beyond that group, please
consider sharing with this email address (opensourcepharma at lists.okfn.org)
which goes out to more people. Anyone can just send an email to this list -
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Various links:

A news item on the WHO/TDR website about the Bellagio meeting:

http://www.who.int/tdr/news/2014/open-source-pharma-mtg/en/

(please disseminate, as the first public outcome after the meeting - the
Vision is down the bottom).

A paper I'd missed about open clinical data (Piero is an author)

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2813%2970327-X/fulltext

BMJ item on Priority Review Vouchers:

http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4665

and TDR's response:

http://www.who.int/tdr/news/2014/prv-drug-develp/en/

A reminder of why Alzheimer's drug discovery is so hard:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-alzheimer-s-drugs-keep-failing/

A link from Els about Ebola drug discovery

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/4/5963751/the-real-cause-of-the-ebola-outbreak-its-not-what-you-think
?

Best wishes everyone,
Mat


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