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. 2009 Mar;85(3):237-9.
doi: 10.1038/clpt.2008.258.

Adding a medicine to the WHO model list of essential medicines

S P Kishore  1 , B J Herbstman
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Adding a medicine to the WHO model list of essential medicines

S P Kishore et al. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2009 Mar.

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.

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CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declared no conflict of interest.

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Adding statins to the 15th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. The key events in our bid to have statins listed are highlighted. The formal application form to add or delete an essential medicine is available at http://www.who.int/medicines/publications/essentialmedicines. Our complete submission can be viewed at http://archives.who.int/eml/expcom/expcom15/applications/newmed/statins/statins.pdf. CeVEAS, Centre for the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Health Care (Modena, Italy); EML, Essential Medicines List; WHO, World Health Organization.
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