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Viewpoint: From Risk to Resilience: It’s Time for Business to Collaborate on Climate Change
All over the world, the climate is changing. In some places, storm surges crash over flood walls. Elsewhere, crops wither, parched by drought. Climate impacts are varied and highly local. The only constant is disruption.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- climate change
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Vaccine Makers Ranked on Pricing and Research
The pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi sell many doses of vaccines at high prices and do a lot of research with the profits, while the Serum Institute of India makes more doses than any other manufacturer and sells them at low prices, according to the first Access to Vaccines Index, which was released last week.
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- Health Care
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- public health, vaccines
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Global drugmakers seek to join hands with startups
Global pharmaceutical companies are seeking to join hands with local startups as part of their effort to increase research and development (R&D) productivity, industry officials said Monday.
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- Health Care
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India honors rural women on the front lines of its toilet campaign
As crowds gathered around the world yesterday to celebrate women, India’s Prime Minister Modi paid special honor to thousands of “women champions” who are fighting for a most basic dignity: toilets.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public policy
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Johnson & Johnson to make hospital consumables at new East Africa hub in Nairobi
Healthcare products manufacturer Johnson & Johnson has set up an East African operations hub in Nairobi. The company, in a major shift in its market strategy, will now depart from the initial business set up where it worked through distributors.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health, vaccines
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Social Business Roundup: A Defiant Asset Manager, Salty Doorknobs and Who Has it Worse?
This week in social business, the world's third-largest asset manager is pressuring companies to add more women to their boards; a Nobel Prize winner's ponderings on inequality within nations might make you rethink life in America; and salt earns a chance to be a hero – for a change.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care, Investing
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Three Promising Practices for Management of NCDs in India
Common non-communicable diseases (NCDs), like diabetes and hypertension, are silent killers that plague a large percentage of the workforce and reduce productivity globally, posing a threat to the development of nearly any economy. NCDs account for over 38 million deaths every year, roughly 68% of the global deaths annually.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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The Startups Using Apps and Phones to Solve the Global Healthcare Crisis
At this year's WIRED Health, pharmaceutical company Sandoz is launching its first-ever startup competition. Sandoz HACk challenges young entrepreneurs to use mobile-health technologies to help bring access to healthcare in tough environments.
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- Health Care, Technology
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