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This is brilliant: celebrating the new campus drug culture (aka using the university system to ensure the poor have access to medicines)

worldsfair | February 7, 2009

(Earlier the video had server issues, so just reposting - this video is really worth checking out) If you haven't heard of the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (or UAEM), then put it on your to do list right now. Better yet, sit yourself down and watch Mike Gretes in this video for 20 minutes. Making medicines for people, not for profit: Mike Gretes from terrytalks on Vimeo. - - - Basically, this is one of many great student talks, I've got going up on our Terry talks site, but this one in particular I think is particularly relevant for those within the ScienceBlog readership,…

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