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NCDs cost India equivalent to 12.5% of its GDP, says US-based study
India, world’s largest generic medicines exporter, still lacks assured free access to good quality generic medicines and the support is needed to use them to best effect for large section of its population, says a study by US-based pharmacy school.
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Increasing Profits by Reaching Pharma’s Silent Majority
We hear a lot in pharma about the voice of the customer, but the drug industry can’t hear the voices of millions of people around the world who might become its customers. Many die each year because they can’t afford to buy the medications they need to treat their illnesses.
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Why we’re heading for a global healthcare crunch – and how to avoid it
Designing healthcare around the commercial concept of value would improve services and prevent a financial crisis
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Swati Piramal: How to Make India a World Leader in Low-Cost Health Care
Bad regulations and price control are stifling pharma, but innovation in health care is blossoming with government support
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Malawi’s Health Care Subject Of Intense Worry For Country’s Poor
Fagnes Matunga lives about as far away as a Malawian can from the country’s capital city of Lilongwe. Her village of thatch-roof huts is perched on the summit of a windswept mountain. The dirt road that serves as the main thoroughfare doubles as a porous border between her native Malawi and neighboring Mozambique. Trucks that carry her meager crop of Irish potatoes to urban markets — and the ambulances that transport laboring women in urgent need of C-sections — travel hours to reach the paved highway.
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Incredulity turns to praise as malaria vaccine posts positive PhI data
In the 1970s, experiments showed that volunteers developed immunity from malaria after irradiated infected mosquitoes bit them thousands of times.
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Antibiotic apocalypse
The indiscriminate prescription of strong antibiotics for even minor ailments like cold and flu is leading to the alarming rise of bacterial infections that no longer respond to the usual medicine
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Africa’s Drinking Problem: Alcoholism on the Rise as Beverage Multinationals Circle
In Kenya, depending on whom you ask, John Mututho is either a hero or a villain, but in a country consuming ever more alcohol, he is certainly a household name.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa