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Indian drug makers shifting R&D operations to South East Asia: Survey
AHMEDABAD: Red tapism is pushing India's Rs 1,00,000 crore pharmaceutical industry in peril as most of the pharma companies shifting research and development (R&D) operations and clinical trials to South-East Asian countries of Cambodia, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and others, according to a just concluded survey by ASSOCHAM.
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Demand Forecasting Takes Off: How improved strategic demand forecasting is helping global health investors, manufacturers and donors
Poor forecasting of expected demand for key products is a pervasive problem in global health. It can lead to the waste of unsold drugs, instability in the prices and availability of essential products, and even drug shortages, resulting in incomplete treatments and drug resistance. But as the Center for Global Development reports, global health funders are making important progress on the issue.
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Making a Medicine as Easy to Find as a Can of Coke
Diarrheal disease, which kills a million children younger than 5 each year, has an image problem. It doesn’t raise much alarm in industrialized countries, where it is merely a nuisance that can be treated with inexpensive, readily accessible remedies. In poorer countries, though, where a large majority of these children are dying, those remedies often cannot be found.
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India battles misconceptions on mental illness
Many Indian villagers blame evil spirits, and stigma still runs deep. As suicides soar, officials focus on training community-based mental health workers.
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Patents making new HIV/AIDS medicines ‘beyond reach’: MSF
New potentially life-saving HIV drugs are “beyond reach” due to restrictive patents, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday, even though basic medication for the disease has become cheaper.
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A Feast for the Senses: Global health innovations in sight and sound – Bi-weekly Checkup, 7/5/13
Some of the coolest innovations to cross our radar screen in the past few weeks have involved vision and hearing – whether it’s enhancing them in doctors, or improving them in patients. This Bi-weekly Checkup explores some of the sense-focused innovations that have caught my eye (sorry) because of their potential impact on patients at the base of the pyramid.
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Keeping Up with the Indians: Exploring emerging practices in a health care innovation powerhouse
Extending health services to the 350 million living below the poverty line in India is no easy task. But due to necessity and ingenuity, the country has become a vibrant testing ground for new solutions that help meet the needs of its large, diverse population. In this post from CHMI, Aarthi Rao explores some of the approaches that have made India a powerhouse in health care innovation.
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Environment, education and health need urgent progress, says MDG report
Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia lag behind rest of world, with targets on child and maternal deaths, and sanitation significantly off-target
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa