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Doing Good Business for Better Health: The view from drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline on expanding access
Allan Pamba, director of Public Engagement & Access Initiatives for the Developing Countries Unit of GlaxoSmithKline, talks about what GSK is doing to meet the health care needs of BoP countries without compromising its commercial success.
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- Health Care
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Micro-Needles Could Allow Painless DNA Vaccines
Patches covered in microscopic needles could tattoo vaccines into the skin to boost a patient’s defense against disease, researchers say.
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Glaxo Starts India Venture to Develop Emerging Market Vaccines
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) agreed to form a joint venture in India to produce a six-in-one vaccine that will immunize children in developing countries against infectious diseases including polio.
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Part 2: What Really Happens at a BoP Clinic?: A new study shows surprising results
Do trained primary care providers reliably provide better care than untrained ones in BoP communities? That’s one of the questions explored by Jishnu Das, Senior Economist in the Development Research Group at The World Bank, in a recent Health Affairs study on provider quality in India. In Part 2 of his interview with CHMI’s Rose Reis, Das talks about the limitations of existing data on BoP health care quality, the lessons of the study - and its surprising findings on the relative quality of untrained providers.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Davos divided on tackling the scourge of obesity
Obesity, a major factor in diabetes and heart disease, imposes costs on both public and private sectors and is a drag on economic growth, but business leaders meeting in Davos can't agree on what they can or should do to address it.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Killer quinoa? Time to debunk these urban food myths
Twenty years ago, quinoa was pretty much unknown. Now, it’s in everyone’s cafeteria. Its price is going through the roof. And that, in the confused minds of Western foodies, is somehow a bad thing.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Latin America
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Antibiotic ‘apocalypse’ warning
The rise in drug resistant infections is comparable to the threat of global warming, according to the chief medical officer for England.
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- Health Care
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Better Design, Better Health: Bringing Telemedicine to Rural India
Twenty-six year-old Rinku has been bleeding for days. So she did what many village women in rural India do when health problems reach a certain level of severity; she made the multi-hour trip to a private hospital for high-quality, if expensive, healthcare.
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- Health Care
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- public health