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Pharmaceuticals 药物 Give, and it shall be given unto you 赠人玫瑰手有余香 Drug companies in Japan invest in curing diseasesof the poor 日本药品公司投资为穷人治病 JAPAN s pharmaceutical firms are an inventive bunch: only the American and British drugsindustries produced more new medicines between 2005 and 2008. 日本制药企业是充满创造力的工厂，在2005到2008年中，只有美国与英国的制药工业研发的新药比日本多。 But their record on healing the diseases of the poor is not so good. 不过他们在治疗穷人上表现欠佳。 The Access to Medicine Foundation, anon-profit group, tracks drug firms efforts to serve patients in developing countries; and inits ranking of the 20 biggest ones, Japanese firms occupy four of the bottom six rungs. 非盈利组织The Access to Medicine Foundation记录了制药公司在救助发展中国家病人上的表现。在20所最大的制药公司中，日本公司在最后6位中排名第四。 That may change. On November 8th the Global Health Innovative Technology Fundannounced its first grants, to advance treatments for malaria, tuberculosis and Chagasdisease, a potentially fatal and frequently debilitating ailment spread by ghastly,bloodsucking kissing bugs. | 
