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‘Personalized’ Vaccines Help Treat Chronic Leukemia
Patients with advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) often receive donor transplants that effectively “reboot” their own immune defenses, which then attack and potentially cure the hard-to-treat disease.
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Financial Inclusion is an Opportunity: BR Shetty
The chairman of the UAE Exchange wants to improve financial literacy among those in the bottom of the economic pyramid
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Small traders can track sales and customer trends
THE PRINCIPAL salesman of any enterprise is the business owner. This is simply the hard lesson that many small and micro enterprise (SME) owners learn over time.
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Fat profits: how the food industry cashed in on obesity
Ever since definitions of healthy bodyweight changed in the 1990s, the world has feared an obesity epidemic. But the food giants accused of making us fat are also profiting from the slimming industry
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The Top 3 Public Health Trends Across Africa
In advance of the many health-related discussions to take place in September at the Clinton Global Initiative, the Social Good Summit, UN week and other such events, the Skoll World Forum asked some of the world’s leading voices in global health to paint a comprehensive picture of key trends, challenges and opportunities to realizing healthcare access and treatment around the world.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to Foster Low-Tech Health Innovation
A Seattle non-profit's model for uniting public health and the private sector, and what they've come up with
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Bangladesh denies plan to take over Grameen
Bangladesh denied on Tuesday that it plans to take control of pioneering microlender Grameen Bank which has lifted millions of people out of poverty.The statement by a government spokesman came ahead of the release of a report by a commission expected to recommend that the government increase its stake in the Nobel-Prize winning bank to 51 percent from 25 percent.
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Taking the long view on Big Pharma in China
Big pharma’s Chinese dreams are bruised, but not broken.
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- Asia Pacific
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- governance