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The Power of One: An Anti-Malaria Campaign With Some Powerful Partners
An all-star team--including Twitter, a former Apple marketing executive, the people who ran Obama’s online campaign, drug companies, and more--are coming together with Malaria No More to make a huge push to stop one of the most deadly diseases in the world.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Four Reasons Doctors Worry About Social Media
Continuous social media exposure to the imaginative and the extraordinary can also be a bit deceptive.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Superbug drug fight in danger with just four pharmaceutical firms left making antibiotics, report says
The number of new antibiotics being developed is “alarmingly low,” according to a new report by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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- Health Care
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Innovative finance and its promise for global health
Few global health institutions focus as much on innovative finance as UNITAID.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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A Lose-Lose Situation: How medical insourcing impacts developing and developed countries (Part 2)
The shortage of medical professionals is a global problem, affecting both rich and poor countries. But though developed-world health care centers are responding by recruiting workers from abroad, Dr. Kate Tulenko argues that this is the wrong approach. In her book, Insourced: How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad, she explains why medical insourcing is a lose-lose situation for all countries involved. In part 2 of our Q & A, she discusses some possible solutions.
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- Health Care
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- governance, public health
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Making a clean sweep of a ‘dirty’ business in India
A new kind of "dirty" business is becoming the latest frontier in the bottom-of-the-pyramid market in India, with a number of start-ups seeing a huge opportunity in building and maintaining toilets as more than 600 million Indians still defecate in the open, according to the World Health Organization.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Coming, ready or not
The threat of a global pandemic is rising again.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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A Lose-Lose Situation: How medical insourcing impacts developing and developed countries (Part 1)
Both rich and poor countries are dealing with a shortage of medical professionals. Yet many developed countries are responding by recruiting health professionals from countries with even graver shortages. In her book, Insourced: How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad, Dr. Kate Tulenko argues that medical insourcing is a lose-lose situation for all countries involved.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health
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