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Ebix Launches ‘Ask a Doctor’ in Rajasthan, Plans to Expand
The Atlanta, Georgia-based international supplier of on-demand software and e-commerce services to the insurance, financial and healthcare industries, Ebix Inc., recently announced it gas launched its telemedicine service, “Ask a Doctor,” throughout the state of Rajasthan.
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- South Asia
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GSK Sets 10-year Price Reduction For Pneumococcal Vaccines
The pharmaceutical gaint, GlaxoSmithKline has announced a 10-year steady reduction in price of pneumococcal vaccines to enable Nigeria continue to purchase vaccines at prices meant for low-income countries still dependent on support from the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (GAVI).
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Hyacinths and Sawdust Used to Combat Cooking Pollution
A brew made from sawdust and water hyacinth flowers may help reduce the millions of lives lost across the developing world from the fumes of ramshackle cooking equipment.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sanofi Pasteur CEO Has Ambitious Goals
The APEC CEO Summit, part of the Asia Economic Conference (Apec) Philippines 2015, is the Asia-Pacific’s premier business event for Apec leaders and business executives to discuss the futere of Asia-Pacific economies. Olivier Charmeil, Sanofi Pasteur’s CEO, joins other business leaders for a two-day discussion, presentations and dialogue on a wide range of issues that will impact the future development of the region, including innovation, trade, sustainability and disaster resilience.
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- Asia Pacific
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Mozzie Field Test Kit Attracts Gates Foundation Funding
Research being undertaken by a team at the University of the Sunshine Coast has caught the attention of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- Health Care
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Health-e News: Medicine Stock-Outs Are Hard to Diagnose
From the Eastern Cape to Limpopo, medicine shortages continue to be reported throughout South Africa. In a year in which it seems stock outs have become the new mystery disease, the shortages have difficult causes that are sometimes hard to pin down.
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Weekly Roundup 11-13-15: What’s in a Name?
According to Pamela Hartigan, director of the Skoll Centre at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, “social enterprise” is a mindset, not a “sector,” and we’d all be better off recognizing that.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Big Pharma Pricing Pneumonia Vaccines Out of Reach
A child dies every 35 seconds from pneumonia leading to the deaths of about 1 million children every year from the disease, according to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).These deaths are easily preventable with a vaccine that too few people are receiving. According to MSF, one of the biggest problems is the price of the vaccines, which are only made by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer.
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