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Malaria resistance – it’s in the parasite’s genes
Tracking malaria resistance is imperative if it is to be prevented, say scientists who have been genotyping the parasites.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Government may suspend sale of banned drugs taking cue from global drug regulators
India plans to suspend sale of medicines that are banned in one of the six major global drug markets for harmful side-effects, said two senior government officials.
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FAIL! Top Universities Get Poor Grades on Global Health Research: Bi-Weekly Checkup (4/27/13)
If you’ve ever brought home a bad report card, here’s something that’ll soothe your ego: you’re in the company of some of the top schools in America. A recent report assessing universities’ global health research gave C’s and D’s to many prestigious schools. But are the grades fair? Here’s our take - and some other posts you may have missed - in NextBillion Health Care’s Bi-Weekly Checkup.
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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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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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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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Innovative finance and its promise for global health
Few global health institutions focus as much on innovative finance as UNITAID.
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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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