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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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- governance
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Aavishkaar makes final close of second venture fund at $94M
The larger fund gives Aavishkaar the ability to write larger cheques and invest across various stages of its portfolio companies.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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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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India leads in supply of drugs to UN
Affordable healthcare remains a distant reality inside the country.
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Financial Inclusion is an Opportunity: BR Shetty
The chairman of the UAE Exchange wants to improve financial literacy among those in the bottom of the economic pyramid
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Bangladesh denies plan to take over Grameen
Bangladesh denied on Tuesday that it plans to take control of pioneering microlender Grameen Bank which has lifted millions of people out of poverty.The statement by a government spokesman came ahead of the release of a report by a commission expected to recommend that the government increase its stake in the Nobel-Prize winning bank to 51 percent from 25 percent.
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‘Two-thirds of injections in India unsafe’
With an aim to protect patients from infections caused by use of unsafe injections, Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) launched Safe Injection Environment programme in the city on Sunday, where they talked about the importance of safe injection practices.
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Bottom of the Pyramid and Beyond
Stuart Hart on the idea that revolutionized management thinking
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