Innovation and the WHO's essential medicines list: giving credit where credit is due.

Res Social Adm Pharm

Center for Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, Temple University School of Pharmacy, 3307 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.

Published: March 2007

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