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The Airborne Infection That Beats Antibiotics: North Korea’s Other Crisis
Throughout history, TB has killed more people than all other pandemics combined.
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- Asia Pacific
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Pfizer sells key vaccine cheaply to poor countries
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has agreed to provide hundreds of millions of doses of its lucrative vaccine against pneumonia and meningitis at a fraction of the usual price for young children in poor countries.
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$2 birth kit could prevent hundreds of deaths every day
What if you arrived at a hospital to give birth, only to be sent home because you didn’t bring your own delivery room supplies?
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Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.
Devi Shetty is obsessed with making heart surgery affordable for millions of Indians. On his office desk are photographs of two of his heroes: Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.
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GAVI aims to improve access to vaccines in Nigeria through supply chains project
Funding for cold chain equipment and improved data collection to support Nigeria’s Saving One Million Lives Initiative
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Insight: The poison pill in India’s search for cheap food
Nearly a decade ago, the Indian government ruled out a ban on the production and use of monocrotophos, the highly toxic pesticide that killed 23 children this month in a village school providing free lunches under a government-sponsored program
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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How Do You Design a Medical Gadget That Costs 95 Percent Less Than Before?
The Food and Drug Administration classifies an endoscope as a Class II medical device, but technically it’s just a long plastic tube with a light and camera at the end.
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Battle of the bulge
As waistlines grow, so does the fight against junk food
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- nutrition