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Asia’s Biggest Vaccine Maker to Seek Fast-Track Nod for Dengue Drug in India
Asia's largest vaccine maker, Serum Institute of India, plans to file for fast-track approval to launch a dengue treatment in India, its chief executive said, potentially becoming the first company globally to launch a drug for the mosquito-borne virus.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Martin Shkreli Announces Turnaround on 5,000% Price Rise for Drug
Turing Pharmaceuticals, a small company that generated outrage by raising the cost of an old anti-infective drug by more than 5,000%, said it would roll back that increase to make sure it remains affordable.
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- Health Care
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Novo Nordisk Joins Business Call to Action with Diabetes Awareness Campaign
The Business Call to Action (BCtA) is pleased to announce that Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare company with more than 90 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care, has joined BCtA with an initiative to improve access to safe and affordable diabetes care for the working poor in Kenya. The company aims to reach 1.5 million people with a grassroots awareness campaign involving community leaders, healthcare workers and peer educators on diabetes risk factors, the importance of early detection and proper treatment of the disease.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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GE Healthcare Commits $300M to New Emerging Markets Unit
GE Healthcare said today it will spend $300 million to develop lower-cost technologies and healthcare delivery solutions across multiple care settings in emerging markets through a new business unit.
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- Health Care
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- impact investing
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Coke Discloses Millions in Grants for Health Research and Community Programs
Coca-Cola, the world’s largest maker of sugary beverages, has spent almost $120 million in the past five years to pay for academic health research, partnerships with major medical groups and community fitness programs aimed at curbing the obesity epidemic.
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- Education, Health Care
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How Is the Growing Middle Class Affecting the Emerging Markets?
The world's middle class is growing. According to Pew Research Center, 63 million people entered Latin America's middle class over the last decade; it is estimated that Nigeria's middle class grew by 600 percent between 2000 and 2014.
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- Education, Health Care
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‘Riders For Health’ – Post-Ebola Health Delivery Measure Launched
Riders for Health, an international social enterprise that manages and maintains vehicles for health-focused partners in Sub-Sahara Africa has assured the provision of such services in post-Ebola Liberia, aimed at improving Liberia's health delivery system in the area of transport management.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Regeneron Announces Agreement with BARDA for the Development of New Antibody Treatment for Ebola
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.REGN, -1.42% today announced an agreement with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop, test and manufacture a monoclonal antibody therapy for the treatment of Ebola virus infection.
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- Health Care
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