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Q&A: Inovio CEO on DNA Vaccines
One area of biotechnology that has drawn a lot of attention in recent years is DNA vaccines.
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6 Innovations That Will Change Healthcare
When economists, data scientists and medical professionals team up, the result is often remarkable innovation.
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Here’s how many fewer AIDS patients would be treated after sequestration
Members of Congress have left Washington without having made a deal to avoid the deep across-the-board spending cuts to federal agencies slated to begin March 1, and agency heads are already lamenting the potential damage to both foreign and domestic programs.
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Game Changer?: The campaign to train one million African health workers – Part 2
The One Million Community Health Workers campaign is launching an ambitious effort to achieve the UN’s Millenium Development Goals in health care - in one of the world’s most impoverished regions. In part 2 of our interview, project co-chair Dr. Prabhjot Singh discusses the ways the initiative could impact business development.
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Global Health Needs More Statistics
What is the best way to estimate how many people suffer from tuberculosis, from the forests of Central Africa to the highlands of Peru?
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Game Changer?: The campaign to train one million African health workers – Part 1
With uneven progress and the 2015 deadline approaching, some have already written off the UN’s Millenium Development Goals as unreachable. But the One Million Community Health Workers campaign is making a final push to actually achieve them in health care - in one of the world’s most impoverished regions. The project’s co-chair, Dr. Prabhjot Singh, describes the initiative’s approach (and its risks) in part one of our interview.
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Vaccinator killings set back Nigerian polio eradication drive
Unknown gunmen on mopeds shot dead 10 polio vaccinators last week in separate attacks on two polio clinics in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, capital of a polio-endemic region where concerted global efforts are being made to stamp out the virus by the end of 2013.
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Global Health Threat Seen in Overuse of Antibiotics on Chinese Pig Farms
As Europe continues to recoil at the “horseburger” scandal, focusing minds on the risks in long food-production chains, a new study has found that high use of antibiotics in Chinese pig farms is producing antibiotic-resistant genes that pose “a potential worldwide human health risk.”
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