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In China’s Tougher Drug Market, Minnows Open Back Door for ‘Big Pharma’
Armed with Beijing funds and friends in the right places, Chinese drug minnows are thriving, luring money from 'Big Pharma' majors struggling to restore the strong growth they once enjoyed in the world's second-largest medicine market.
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- South Asia
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If You Think She Looks Like An Avon Lady, You’re Half Right
In the 1990s Chuck Slaughter built the online clothing retailer, TravelSmith, from a startup to a company with sales in excess of $100 million a year. Then he signed up to be an Avon lady.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Charity Urges Price Cut for Pneumonia Vaccine for Poor Children
Global charity Medecins Sans Frontieres delivered a petition with hundreds of thousands of signatures to pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc on Wednesday, asking the drugmaker to slash the price of its pneumonia vaccine for poor children.
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Cheap Device for Examining Eyes Successfully Tested
A simple eye examining device that may offer a cheap way to improve medical care and training in developing countries has been successfully tested in Africa and Pacific island states.
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Hikma Pharmaceuticals Launches $30M Digital Health Venture Fund in Amman
Hikma Pharmaceuticals has launched a $30 million strategic venture capital fund focused on digital health, therapeutics, and diagnostics startups.Founded in August 2015, the Amman-based Hikma Ventures operates as the corporate venture capital arm of Hikma Pharmaceuticals.
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- North Africa & Near East
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Mobile Phone Companies Oppose ‘Panic Button’ Move, Say Will Push Up the Prices for Basic Phones
Handset makers have opposed the government's move mandating global positioning system (GPS) on feature phones, arguing it would hit users at the lowest level as the cost of basicphones would go up by Rs 400 — a massive increase in a market where the cheapest device is available for Rs 500.
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Closing the Gap on Vaccine Efficacy in the ‘Global South’
Vaccines and antibiotics occupy a privileged position in the history of medicine. They are humanity’s “magic bullets” — categories of intervention so effective and easy to deliver that they have the capacity to single-handedly eradicate entire diseases from human history. But just as the heady utopia of an antibiotic age has given way to the cold, evolutionary reality of antibiotic resistance, we must now also confront the pervasive problem of vaccine failure in the global South.
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Kenya’s New Favorite Customer: Iran
On his first trip to Iran last June, Joseph Kamau Kiminda quickly learned that Iranians care about a few things more than tea. The CEO of Kenyan tea company, Cup of Joe, spent time with everyday Iranians who, immediately after rolling out of bed, put tea to boil, leaving it on all day. His Iranian business counterparts called him most days, including Saturdays, at six in the morning to discuss tea for three to four hours. He even received a lecture on tea quality from the secretary of an Iranian tea distributor. “They know tea,” Kiminda concluded.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa