NitroMed/NAACP alliance

Executive Summary

NitroMed provides a $1.5 mil. grant to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to develop "health advocacy initiatives towards equal access to quality healthcare," the firm announces Dec. 14. Among other initiatives, the grant will support the development of a "consensus paper on the state of African American healthcare and the impact of Medicare" and an Advocacy Action Plan for the NAACP National Health Leadership Committee. NitroMed markets BiDil (isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine), which was approved in June for treatment of heart failure in self-identified black patients, and is the first therapy indicated for a specific ethnic population (1"The Pink Sheet" June 27, 2005, p. 5)...