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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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6 Innovations that will change health care
When economists, data scientists and medical professionals team up, the result is often remarkable innovation.
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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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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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Decentralise malaria diagnosis and treatment in Africa
The most effective way to overcome the key challenge of access is to focus on community health workers – if people can't come to a health facility, take the health facility to people
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