Weill Cornell’s UAEM students have helped to add simvastatin to the WHO’s list of essential medicines:

“In a move to improve global public health, Weill Cornell Medical College students have helped place a lifesaving heart disease drug onto the World Health Organization’s (WHO) list of essential medicines. This list is a guideline for developing countries to choose which high-priority drugs should be supplied to their citizens inexpensively. Students from Weill Cornell’s chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) answered the charge of Dr. David Skorton, President of Cornell University, and Dr. Antonio M. Gotto Jr., dean of Weill Cornell Medical College, to “seek new strategies for Cornell to advance public health” across the globe.”

The full press release is available here.