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WHO Backs Weight-Loss Drugs To Treat Diabetes, Obesity, Urges Cheap Generics
The World Health Organization recommended a range of blockbuster weight-loss drugs to treat diabetes and obesity globally for the first time on Friday, calling for cheap generic versions to be made available for people in developing countries.
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Gates Foundation Commits $120 Million To Support Access To New Covid Pill
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday announced an investment of up to $120 million in an effort to speed up low-income countries' access to a new anti-Covid drug.
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World Must Address Barriers Against Access To Affordable Medicines: India At United Nations
India has underlined the need for the global community to chart out long-term strategies and roadmaps to deal with future pandemics and their impacts, emphasising that barriers to equitable access to affordable medicines and new technologies must be addressed.
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Fake Pharmacy Call Centre Duping US Nationals Busted, 2 Arrested: Police
Two people were arrested in Mumbai's Andheri area for allegedly operating a fake call centre that targeted United States nationals on the pretext of selling cheap medicines online, police said on Monday.
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China To Provide "Greater Access" To Indian Anti-Cancer Drugs After Movie
China on Monday said it has initiated specific measures for the import of Indian pharmaceuticals, specially anti-cancer medicines, to provide them "greater access" to the Chinese market, days after a Chinese movie on a leukaemia patient highlighted the need for paving the way for import of cheap Indian medicines.
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AAP Wants 'Delhi Model' Of Governance In BJP-Ruled Madhya Pradesh
Aam Aadmi Party today demanded cheap power, free medicines and water for the people of BJP- ruled Madhya Pradesh on the lines of facilities provided by the party government in Delhi.
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Inexpensive One-Step Test For Hepatitis C Infection
Researchers have developed a cost-effective one-step test that can screen, detect and confirm hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections from blood or urine samples.
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Scientists create embryonic-type stem cells without embryos
In experiments that could open a new era in stem cell biology, scientists have found a cheap and easy way to reprogramme mature cells from mice back into an embryonic-like state that allowed them to generate many types of tissue.
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Indian AIDS pill is effective
A cheap three-in-one generic AIDS pill from India is just as good as more expensive branded medicines and should be widely used in developing countries.
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Poor countries should get life-saving drugs at cost price
Plans for a two-tier system for drug pricing, which will supply cheap medicines to poor countries while they remain more expensive for the rich are on its way. The plan comes from a high-level working group that states that drug companies should sell drugs for AIDS, TB and malaria to the poor countries at cost price.
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A cheap anti-malarial being developed
GlaxoSmithKline are on the verge of developing a cheap anti-malarial drug, LAPDAP, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), for use in the under-developed countries. Malaria is an infectious disease caused by the female anopheles mosquito, and is still rampant in Africa and India. Though it is eminently treatable, the medicines m...
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WHO Backs Weight-Loss Drugs To Treat Diabetes, Obesity, Urges Cheap Generics
The World Health Organization recommended a range of blockbuster weight-loss drugs to treat diabetes and obesity globally for the first time on Friday, calling for cheap generic versions to be made available for people in developing countries.
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Gates Foundation Commits $120 Million To Support Access To New Covid Pill
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday announced an investment of up to $120 million in an effort to speed up low-income countries' access to a new anti-Covid drug.
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World Must Address Barriers Against Access To Affordable Medicines: India At United Nations
India has underlined the need for the global community to chart out long-term strategies and roadmaps to deal with future pandemics and their impacts, emphasising that barriers to equitable access to affordable medicines and new technologies must be addressed.
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Fake Pharmacy Call Centre Duping US Nationals Busted, 2 Arrested: Police
Two people were arrested in Mumbai's Andheri area for allegedly operating a fake call centre that targeted United States nationals on the pretext of selling cheap medicines online, police said on Monday.
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China To Provide "Greater Access" To Indian Anti-Cancer Drugs After Movie
China on Monday said it has initiated specific measures for the import of Indian pharmaceuticals, specially anti-cancer medicines, to provide them "greater access" to the Chinese market, days after a Chinese movie on a leukaemia patient highlighted the need for paving the way for import of cheap Indian medicines.
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AAP Wants 'Delhi Model' Of Governance In BJP-Ruled Madhya Pradesh
Aam Aadmi Party today demanded cheap power, free medicines and water for the people of BJP- ruled Madhya Pradesh on the lines of facilities provided by the party government in Delhi.
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Inexpensive One-Step Test For Hepatitis C Infection
Researchers have developed a cost-effective one-step test that can screen, detect and confirm hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections from blood or urine samples.
-
Scientists create embryonic-type stem cells without embryos
In experiments that could open a new era in stem cell biology, scientists have found a cheap and easy way to reprogramme mature cells from mice back into an embryonic-like state that allowed them to generate many types of tissue.
-
Indian AIDS pill is effective
A cheap three-in-one generic AIDS pill from India is just as good as more expensive branded medicines and should be widely used in developing countries.
-
Poor countries should get life-saving drugs at cost price
Plans for a two-tier system for drug pricing, which will supply cheap medicines to poor countries while they remain more expensive for the rich are on its way. The plan comes from a high-level working group that states that drug companies should sell drugs for AIDS, TB and malaria to the poor countries at cost price.
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A cheap anti-malarial being developed
GlaxoSmithKline are on the verge of developing a cheap anti-malarial drug, LAPDAP, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), for use in the under-developed countries. Malaria is an infectious disease caused by the female anopheles mosquito, and is still rampant in Africa and India. Though it is eminently treatable, the medicines m...
