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Government may suspend sale of banned drugs taking cue from global drug regulators
India plans to suspend sale of medicines that are banned in one of the six major global drug markets for harmful side-effects, said two senior government officials.
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The Power of One: An Anti-Malaria Campaign With Some Powerful Partners
An all-star team--including Twitter, a former Apple marketing executive, the people who ran Obama’s online campaign, drug companies, and more--are coming together with Malaria No More to make a huge push to stop one of the most deadly diseases in the world.
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Four Reasons Doctors Worry About Social Media
Continuous social media exposure to the imaginative and the extraordinary can also be a bit deceptive.
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Superbug drug fight in danger with just four pharmaceutical firms left making antibiotics, report says
The number of new antibiotics being developed is “alarmingly low,” according to a new report by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Innovative finance and its promise for global health
Few global health institutions focus as much on innovative finance as UNITAID.
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Making a clean sweep of a ‘dirty’ business in India
A new kind of "dirty" business is becoming the latest frontier in the bottom-of-the-pyramid market in India, with a number of start-ups seeing a huge opportunity in building and maintaining toilets as more than 600 million Indians still defecate in the open, according to the World Health Organization.
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Coming, ready or not
The threat of a global pandemic is rising again.
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Universal healthcare: 14 steps in the right direction
From innovative financing to national income surveys, our expert panel offer some important lessons in developing affordable and sustainable universal health coverage
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