World Health Assembly endorses new plan to increase global access to vaccines
Ministers of Health from 194 countries at the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly endorsed a landmark Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), a roadmap to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities.
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Got a great idea? Submit yours to Grand Challenges Explorations
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is accepting applications for Round 9 of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, a USD$100 million grant initiative encouraging innovation in global health and development research. Anyone - students, scientists, entrepreneurs - with a transformative idea is invited to submit an easy, online, two-page application.
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Rising Interest of Big Pharma Creates Immense Growth Potential for Contract Manufacturing Organisations
Increasingly, big pharma is viewing the outsourcing of pharmaceutical manufacturing as a strategic move that would enable them to focus on their core competencies such as R&D. At the same time, the patent expiry of key blockbuster drugs worth $45 billion and biologics worth $30 billion is expected to reduce the capacity utilisation rates of their manufacturing facilities,
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GE Healthcare and M+W Group form strategic alliance in vaccines, insulin and biopharmaceuticals
GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of GE (NYSE: GE) and M+W Group, a leading global engineering, construction and project management company, have formed a strategic alliance aimed at overcoming the lack of key biopharmaceuticals, especially in emerging nations.
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IBM Contributes Data to the National Institutes of Health to Speed Drug Discovery and Cancer Research Innovation
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it is contributing a massive database of chemical data extracted from millions of patents and scientific literature to the National Institutes of Health. This contribution will allow researchers to more easily visualize important relationships among chemical compounds to aid in drug discovery and support advanced cancer research.
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Springer Healthcare Announces Agreement With ASCO®
Springer Healthcare, part of Springer Science+Business Media, has signed an extensive three-year reprints and sales agreement effective 1 January 2012 with the American Society of Clinical Oncology® (ASCO), the world's leading professional organization representing physicians who care for people with cancer.
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Unparalleled global progress in HIV response but sustained investment vital
Global progress in both preventing and treating HIV emphasizes the benefits of sustaining investment in HIV/AIDS over the longer term. The latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and UNAIDS Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Response indicates that increased access to HIV services resulted in a 15% reduction of new infections over the past decade and a 22% decline in AIDS-related deaths in the last five years.
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Ministers of Health from 194 countries at the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly endorsed a landmark Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), a roadmap to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities.