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Shkreli’s Latest Plan to Sharply Raise Drug Price Prompts Outcry
Martin Shkreli is once again provoking alarm with a plan to sharply increase the price of a decades-old drug for a serious infectious disease. This time the drug treats Chagas disease, a parasitic infection that can cause potentially lethal heart problems.
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Central Bank of Kenya Warns Against Using Bitcoin and Other Unregulated Digital Currencies
As the role of bitcoin and other unregulated digital currencies grows, the Central Bank of Kenya has joined other authorities from around the world to warn that virtual money is insecure and could be used to fund terrorism.
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Kenya Is the First Country to Receive $1 Medications for Chronic Illnesses
A global pharmaceutical company is taking the lead in the fight against chronic illnesses by offering treatment at extremely low costs.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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Bill Gates | 2016 Will Be the Year of Financial Inclusion
Bill Gates describes himself as a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. More recently, he was called the most generous man in the world.
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Harvard Leadership Programme Helps Baby-Boomer Bosses to Save the World
About a year and a half ago, Ken Kelley, the founder of Paxvax, a vaccine company which focuses on the travel industry, became afflicted with what he calls an “intellectual itch”. He wondered why certain diseases, such as Ebola and dengue fever, lack vaccine protection.
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In India, healthcare is still a seller’s market
Devi Prasad Shetty, chairman, Narayana Hrudayalaya Ltd, talks to Ashish K Tiwari about the overall healthcare scenario in India, key concerns, and how his company is working towards providing affordable healthcare to the common man.
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A Telemedicine Innovation Is Preventing Blindness in Babies
Every sighted child that is born premature and weighs less than two kg faces a risk of lifetime blindness: a chilling fact that is known to few outside the select community of paediatric retinal surgeons. All that is needed to stop the blindness is screening and a specialised laser operation. But there is next to no awareness on that.
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Barclays Officially Opens Hub to Catalyse Fintech Innovation in Africa
Last month, ex-Barclay’s CEO Antony Jenkins warned that banks face massive disruption within the very near future. Similar to how the popular ride-sharing app Uber is upsetting the balance within the transport industry, so too does the financial services sector face inevitable disruption. Technologies such as cryptocurrencies, blockchains and mobile are opening up cheaper, faster and more secure avenues for services.
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