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Facebook planning to step into healthcare: Sources
Facebook already knows who your friends are and the kind of things that grab your attention. Soon, it could also know the state of your health.
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US consumer giant seeks to smash India menstruation taboos
The latest commercial for Procter & Gamble's top-selling brand of sanitary pads in India ticks all the usual boxes - a young woman jogs happily in pristine white trousers, before effortlessly winning a tennis tournament.
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- South Asia
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Plagues on the Poor: What Ebola Can Learn From Malaria
If the U.S. spent more money on disease prevention and clinics—and less on vaccines and drugs—everyone in the world would stand to benefit
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OPINION: ObamaCare’s Anti-Innovation Effect
Of the many unintended consequences of the Affordable Care Act, perhaps the least noticed is its threat to innovation.
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Plant-based vaccines challenge big pharma
The recent revelation that the Ebola drug ZMapp is produced in the leaves of tobacco plants captured global attention.
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Experiments in development: Time to rethink RCTs?
Randomized controlled trials, an impact evaluation method, have been a contentious development issue of late, with as many advocates as critics. A Devex survey of senior development executives across six continents and varied organizations revealed that nearly half aren’t familiar with the debate or have no opinion at all. This indicates that while RCTs remain a hot topic among academics and practitioners, the issue is not yet relevant to many senior managers. Another sizable group — 37 percent of executives surveyed — responded that RCTs are “somewhat overhyped.”
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GlaxoSmithKline, NewLink working to bring Ebola vaccines online: WHO
Both GlaxoSmithKline and NewLink Genetics are working to boost their capacity to make Ebola vaccines, with a goal of a "very significant increase in scale during the first half of 2015," the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
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Handling the next pandemic
Can the global health system stop Ebola? The answer has more to do with Samuel Kaziraho than you might expect.
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