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Opinion: An AIDS-free generation is within sight
We've come a long way since my early days as the associate medical director of the AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital in the 1980s and 1990s.By 1990, I had seen over 500 patients die from a disease that we just couldn't treat. As an infectious disease doctor, I was overcome not only by the tragic loss of life, but also by the inability to find the "magic bullet" to help prevent these deaths.
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Comment: The Middle East plague goes global
A scary virus is sweeping Saudi Arabia. Six million religious pilgrims are about to descend on the country from across the world. The result could be disastrous, write Laurie Garrett and Maxine Builder.
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Great Potential in China’s Medical Device Market
Though the United States and Europe both greatly surpass China's healthcare, China is expected to catch up to Europe by 2020.
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Hypertension-Driven Disease Rapidly Rising In Sub-Saharan Africa
Weill Cornell study suggests urbanization and industrialization, coupled with a possible predisposition to hypertensive diseases, may be responsible.
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What can U.S. healthcare innovators learn from medical tourism inside and outside its borders?
Mexico’s beaches are supposed to be beautiful so maybe it’s not hard to understand why people would flock there for surgery and make it the No. 2 medical tourism hot spot. A pair of reports reveal that although the U.S. is one of the top three destinations for medical tourism, it could also learn from innovation in other countries such as India.
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Health insurance surge to put India in top 10 pharma markets
India’s drugs and pharmaceuticals market is poised to become one of the top 10 in the world in value with total sales doubling to $26 billion by 2016, driven by an expected surge in health insurance, according to the latest market prognosis report by drug market researcher IMS Health.
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Malaria eradication: is it possible? Is it worth it? Should we do it?
The malaria map is rapidly shrinking. In 1900, endemic malaria was present in almost every country. Nowadays, the disease has been eliminated in 111 countries and 34 countries are advancing towards elimination.
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New device detects disease from just one blood drop
A prototype device is being developed that will enable a physician to detect disease or virus from just one drop of liquid, including blood.
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