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Ebola’s low-down on high tech
Advanced equipment has been developed to help protect health-care workers, but the gear may not be helpful in poor countries.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gates Foundation makes its biggest-ever equity investment in German biotech
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it would invest $52 million in CureVac, a German biotechnology company that develops vaccines and immunotherapies, marking the foundation's biggest-ever equity investment.
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- Health Care
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OPINION: Here’s Why Global Health is So Exciting
Two examples provide clues to how technology is paving the way to tackle big healthcare problems globally.
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- Education, Health Care
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Global Health Justice Partnership calls for action to lower drug prices
Yale’s Global Health Justice Partnership has released a report warning the international community that scientific discoveries will not be enough to prevent the over 500,000 deaths that occur every year from Hepatitis C.
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Identify Key to Tuberculosis Resistance
The cascade of events leading to bacterial infection and the immune response is mostly understood. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the immune response to the bacteria that causes tuberculosis have remained a mystery — until now.
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- Education, Health Care
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PRESS RELEASE: Lighting Science and Global Good to Develop Light-Based Alternatives to Pesticides
Lighting Science Group Corporation and Intellectual Ventures’ Global Good today announced a research agreement to collaborate on the development of next-generation light technologies for pest control.
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Bengaluru-based Molbio develops India’s first swine flu diagnostic kit
The swine flu flare-up has pushed an indigenous innovation faster into the market, a rare silver lining in an otherwise gloomy story, as India battles the worst outbreak of the virus in the past five years.
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Pakistan wastes $3.7 million worth of donated vaccine, official says
Pakistan has wasted $3.7 million worth of vaccines donated to protect children from deadly diseases because officials failed to store them properly, a senior health official told Reuters on Monday.
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