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Quark Venture, With Help From China, Sets Up $500M Life Sciences Fund in Canada
Investment co Quark Venture and China’s GF Securities are setting up a global $500 million life sciences fund in what the pair are describing as the largest of its kind in the country.
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Study: India overdependent on China for medicines
India may have emerged as a key supplier of generic and affordable medicine for the world market, but it has an “overwhelming dependence” on China for the raw material required to produce these drugs, industry association Assocham said.
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- Health Care
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World’s First Drones for Medical Supplies Launch in Rwanda Today
The first medical supply by remotely piloted aircraft, popularly known as drones, will be launched in Rwanda today. The pioneer project, in Muhanga District in southern Rwanda, will see drones used in delivery of much needed supplies to ensure efficiency and timeliness.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Aetna to invest 100 crore in India in three years
US-headquartered Aetna, a 160-year-old healthcare benefit company, on Thursday announced investment commitment of ₹100 crore for the Indian market over the next three years.
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New Solar Powered Health Care Screening Kits Launched for the Indian Armed Forces
In order to bridge the digital gap in the existing healthcare delivery eco-system, Medi Tech Innovations, a health-care IT start-up has launched the 'Solar Powered Health Care Screening Kits' for the Indian armed forces and para-military.
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A ‘just-add-water’ kit to make instant drugs and vaccines could fix health care access in rural areas
A team of researchers at University of Toronto and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering are ... pioneering a technology that could allow people with minimal training to produce a broad range of medication, including diagnostic tools, vaccines, and drugs, anywhere in the world.
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How China’s Biggest Search Engine Aims to Fix a Huge Crisis in Health Care: A Bot
Baidu — China's biggest search engine — introduced an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot on Tuesday to connect with patients, field medical questions and suggest diagnoses to doctors.
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Revolutionary SA e-Health Innovation hearScreen Goes Global
South African e-health startup hearScreen, which has developed a smartphone app detects hearing loss and links patients to health services, is active in more than 25 countries across the world and planning on expanding to a further 15 by the end of next year.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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