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India to Repackage State-Supplied Condoms in Bid to Attract Users
When it comes to the wrappers of India's state-supplied condoms, boring is out, attractive is in, but erotic is too much.
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- South Asia
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Focus on Poverty: Sharing Genetic Data in Health Crises
Genetic information that could help slow disease outbreaks may be kept private by researchers out of fear of violating patients’ rights — that was one of the concerns expressed in a Nature article recently.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NPO Aims to Bring Traditional Japanese Medicine Marketing to Africa
Eri Machii, a 37-year-old pharmacist, hopes a traditional Japanese method of marketing medicine will take off in Africa and help improve health care.
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- Health Care
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Ali Health Pens Tie-Up for Online Health Testing Platform
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's healthcare subsidiary will tie-up with Zhejiang DiAn Diagnostics Co Ltd to help develop an online hospital platform, the diagnostics firm said in a filing late on Monday.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Viewpoint: Where Do Vaccine Fears Come From?
In his 2013 New Yorker article “Slow Ideas,” the Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande offered a compelling way to understand why some good ideas spread slowly (if at all) while others spread like wildfire.
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- Health Care
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Microneedle Patches Could Be the Future of Vaccinations
Georgia Tech professor Mark Praunitz has spent two decades developing microneedle patches.
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- Health Care
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Ebola Rapid Diagnostic Kit Developed by UK Scientists in Sierra Leone
A rapid Ebola diagnostic kit similar to a pregnancy kit has been developed by British military scientists and NHS medics in Sierra Leone.
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- Education, Health Care
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WHO, UNOPS Sign Agreement to Scale-Up Partnership in Africa’s Health
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) on Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to intensify collaboration on sustainable management of health programs and projects in Africa.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- infrastructure
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