St. Petersburg Times
By Irene Maher, Times staff writer
In Print: Thursday, April 22, 2010
This week supporters of the Global Conservation Act of 2010 are in Washington to ask Congress to protect what they see as nature’s drug development pipeline. Among them is 48-year-old Debbie Trujillo of Tampa, a real estate agent and breast cancer survivor who was treated with Taxol and today has been cancer-free for five years. “This is urgent,” she says. “It takes years to find these plants, test them and get the drugs to patients. If there’s a rain forest on the other side of the world that could save a life, we have to preserve it now.” Read the full article
