Traditional medicines and clinical trials


	Traditional medicines and clinical trials

hayesstw

2-28-2008 2:30 AM

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She later explained that she was not against clinical trials per se. "But some of the medicines have been used by traditional healers for thousands of years. Clinical trials need protocols for traditional medicine."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=125&art_id=nw20080223125223552C216820"><DIV>
It is also expected to discuss the naming of traditional medicines and patent and ownership rights.</DIV>

"This lack of documentation (in traditional medicine) sometimes creates serious legal challenges," said Tshabalala-Msimang. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CDC47FAF-BB87-4AC5-88E7-284410DA27DC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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