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Federal Government Teams With Drug Companies For Disease Cures

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Story Updated: May 22, 2012

Advances in genetics have allowed researchers to identify the causes of 4,500 diseases, but there are drugs available to treat only 150 of them.

7 News reporter Cindy Habeeb has the details.

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