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HARLEY SOLTES / THE SEATTLE TIMES
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Saturday, June 25, 2005

New blood-pressure guidelines pay off — for drug companies

Outside the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, a statue of a child leading a blind man commemorates the agency's work to wipe out river blindness, a disease that is endemic in parts of Central Africa. The statue was donated by the drug company Merck.