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Providing remote medical care in inaccessible areas
Future of Indian medicare is Telemedicine, opined experts in the field, which is evolving into a promising technological intervention to provide quick and super-specialty medical care to even people residing in a remote place.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Liberia: Ellen Launches Reports On Women’s Health, World Malaria 2012
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has called on all health partners to identify ways in which, working together, Africa can continue to ensure that the progress made is maintained and enhanced regarding women's health and in combating malaria in the African region.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Prices double as private vaccines flood market
NEW DELHI: The Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) seems to have slipped almost entirely into the grip of the private sector as the government's vaccine institutes that were reopened in February 2010 after being shut down two years ago are yet to contribute in any significant way. In the process, the cost of most vaccines has more than doubled since 2006-07.
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Lok Capital buys minority stake in social enterprise Drishti
Firm will use funds to service underserved geographies of Karnataka
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- Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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Drug-Resistant Malaria Flares As Funding For Research Tapers
Global health experts worry that a new breed of malaria that has arisen in South Asia could reverse trends in the fight against the disease, since it has proven resistant to the drugs usually used to treat malaria infections.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Disease burden links ecology to economic growth
A NEW study in the open access journal PLOS Biology, finds that vector-borne and parasitic diseases have substantial effects on economic development across the globe, and are major drivers of differences in income between tropical and temperate countries.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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T cell ‘atlas’ paves way for new vaccines
COLUMBIA U. (US) — The first-ever “atlas” of immune cells in the human body may lead to new vaccine strategies and immunotherapies.
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India’s shift to inclusive innovation is ‘a model to follow’
A leading Indian scientist and policymaker is calling on developing countries to adopt an "emerging paradigm" of affordable, less complex and inclusive innovation to promote development and cut poverty.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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