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Viewpoint: Global health innovations can be game-changers at home, too
Rich and poor countries used to struggle with different sets of health issues: obesity in one versus malnutrition in the other; heart disease and cancer as leading causes of death in rich countries, deaths from infection topping the list in poor countries.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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CAMTech-X: Jugaadathon convenes India’s brightest minds to improve healthcare for country’s urban poor
Hundreds of global health innovators gathered in five cities across the country this past weekend for India’s largest multi-city healthcare hack-a-thon, hosted by The Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Global Health.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Designing A More Efficient, Temperature-Proof Vaccine
If they're not stored within a narrow temperature range of 36 to 46 degrees Fahrenheit, vaccines become unusable. Millions of doses are lost in the developing world each year for want of better-performing fridges and more storage space. The U.S. is not exempt from these issues.
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- North America
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- public health, research, vaccines
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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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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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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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- South Asia
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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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