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Strategic Alliance Formed to Fight Counterfeit Drugs in Ghana
A new partnership will strengthen human resource capacity to conduct quality control testing to detect substandard and counterfeit medications in Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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GlaxoSmithKline and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ink new partnership to accelerate research into vaccines
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have launched a new joint initiative that will endeavor to make vaccines more resistant to heat, thus reducing the need for refrigeration.
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GSK and BMGF ink new partnership to accelerate research into vaccines for global health needs
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have launched a new joint initiative that will endeavour to make vaccines more resistant to heat, thus reducing the need for refrigeration. GSK and BMGF will invest a combined $1.8 million in early stage research into vaccine thermostability.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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HealthMobile, Nigeria’s first global healthcare app, launched
HealthMobile, Nigeria’s first global healthcare app, has been launched and aims to combine native medical information with user-generated content. HealthMobile is the second mobile app to come out of the HealthBook Project.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Africa: Pros and Cons of High-Tech TB Testing
A new, sophisticated diagnostic test for tuberculosis now being rolled out promises to be faster and more accurate than the old methods and much easier to use. But the first trials of the GeneXpert MTB/RIF Assay test in real-life situations have proved that while all this is true, it did not make any significant difference to treatment outcomes.
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- Health Care
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Brazil to produce measles and rubella vaccine for poor countries
Brazil's top biomedical research and development center announced plans on Monday to produce a combined measles and rubella vaccine for developing countries, mainly in Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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- public health
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Cigna and Samsung Team Up to Deliver Digital Health Improvement Platform Worldwide
The initial development is focused on delivering health-related tips and articles through the Samsung S Health Application, with an ultimate goal of connecting individuals with caregivers, doctors and hospitals to improve health and wellness globally.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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$74m gift from Carlos Slim to genomics center targets Latin Americans
Mexican billionaire and philanthropist Carlos Slim Helú visited the Broad Institute on Monday afternoon to announce a $74 million gift to the genomics center that will advance biomedical research that benefits people in Latin America.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research