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Global healthcare system needs an overhaul
Absence of adequate regulatory controls, treatment guidelines, and patient awareness have led to a global surge in antibiotic resistance, says a team of experts; two of them are from India.
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India to checkmate cross-border polio threat
While India gears up to receive WHO certification, Pakistan is polio endemic with 59 cases reported this year, say delegates at a brainstorming Polio Plus orientation and planning workshop in Madurai.
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India continues to have largest pneumonia & diarrheal disease burden in world
U.S. based, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recently highlighted the Pneumonia and Diarrhoea Progress Report 2013 which showed that India continues to have the largest pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease burden in the world.
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Pfizer, Carter Center Partner in Global Health Project
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter joined Pfizer at the company's headquarters on Nov. 5, 2013, to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI), an independent, not-for-profit program dedicated to the elimination of blinding trachoma as a public health concern.
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Strategic Alliance Formed to Fight Counterfeit Drugs in Ghana
A new partnership will strengthen human resource capacity to conduct quality control testing to detect substandard and counterfeit medications in Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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