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Narayana, Which Serves India’s Poor, Going Public
All eyes are on the IPO of Narayana Hrudayalaya, the Bangalore-based affordable healthcare chain founded by India’s best-known cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Shetty, which opens tomorrow. Dr. Shetty, 62, pioneered inexpensive cardiac surgeries by creatively and efficiently driving down costs, thus putting life-saving surgeries within the means of thousands of poor Indians. That is particularly noteworthy in a country where healthcare is mainly delivered by as-yet small number of private healthcare operators while the government spend on healthcare is a scant 1.1 % of the GDP – compared with 18% in the United States.
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‘Supercondom’ Made of Hydrogel and Plant-Based Oxidants Combats HIV/AIDS, Enhances Sexual Pleasure
An American professor of Indian origin has created a “supercondom” that can help combat HIV/AIDS while enhancing sexual pleasure at the same time.
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Drugmakers Launch Cut-Price Versions of Type 2 Diabetes Medicine
Costing a fraction of the brands sold by global organisations and their local affiliates, medical experts say the strengthening trend of new, low-priced drugs with fewer side effects may fundamentally change the way the disease is treated.
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Remittance Platform for Healthcare Services Takes Off in India
With over 22 million non-resident Indians (NRIs) sending $76 billion annually to support their family’s financial needs back home, India is by far the largest remittance market in the world.
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- South Asia
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GlaxoSmithKline Partners in Research to Make Vaccines Cheaper for African Babies
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has partnered with university researchers in Melbourne to develop a new manufacturing method to make vaccines cheaper for families in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world.
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Curing Hepatitis C, in an Experiment the Size of Egypt
Abdel Gawad Ellabbad knows exactly how he was infected with hepatitis C. As a schoolboy in this Nile Delta rice-farming village, his class marched to the local clinic every month for injections against schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease spread by water snails.
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Shkreli’s Latest Plan to Sharply Raise Drug Price Prompts Outcry
Martin Shkreli is once again provoking alarm with a plan to sharply increase the price of a decades-old drug for a serious infectious disease. This time the drug treats Chagas disease, a parasitic infection that can cause potentially lethal heart problems.
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Kenya Is the First Country to Receive $1 Medications for Chronic Illnesses
A global pharmaceutical company is taking the lead in the fight against chronic illnesses by offering treatment at extremely low costs.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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