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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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- Health Care
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Bill Gates on His Foundation’s Health and Education Campaigns
"Polio eradication is this amazing effort. We’re raising the money to get it done by 2018. When these problems leave the rich world, they’re out of sight, out of mind. And reminding people of what a big problem it was and how amazingly others responded—which is why we have these tools at all—helps people, saying this can be the second disease to be eradicated."
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- Education, Health Care
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Proving that mobile can revolutionise healthcare
A mobile health initiative now being expanded across numerous rural clinics in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province underlines the positive impact mobile can have on healthcare.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India leads in supply of drugs to UN
Affordable healthcare remains a distant reality inside the country.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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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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- Health Care
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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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- Health Care
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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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- Health Care
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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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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- governance