Seven types of medicine to be unveiled on Tuesday

August 27, 2012 - 17:18
TEHRAN - Seven types of domestically produced medications will be unveiled during a ceremony on Tuesday, with the participation of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
 
The medications that are to be unveiled are as follows:
 
-Antihemophilic Factor VIII
-Trastuzumab (used for the treatment of Breast Cancer)
-Etanercept (diagnosing kit)
-HIB Vaccine
-PTH, FSP, PEG-GCSF Hormones
 
A nationwide plan for the advancement in technical knowledge for the production of these medications began in 2009, Gholam Hossein Rahimi, an official from the presidential office scientific and technological center told the Mehr News Agency on Monday. 
 
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