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Janssen announces new group to tackle global health
Will implement R&D and access strategies to support areas with unmet public health need
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- Education, Health Care
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- product design, research
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Filipino coffee queen turns into social entrepreneur
Pacita “Chit” Juan, a champion of Philippine coffee brands, has diversified not only to other businesses, but also to other causes, like creating jobs for the poor.
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- Education, Environment
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- Asia Pacific
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Delhi’s air quality worse than one of world’s most polluted cities Beijing, data shows
In mid-January, air pollution in Beijing was so bad that the government issued urgent health warnings and closed four major highways, prompting the panicked buying of air filters and donning of face masks. But in New Delhi, where pea-soup smog created what was by some measurements even more dangerous air, there were few signs of alarm in the country's boisterous news media, or on its effervescent Twittersphere.
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- Education, Health Care
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Life expectancy in Indian increases by 5 years
The life expectancy in India has increased by 5 years in last decade due to measures taken by the country.
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- Education, Health Care
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Using Open Innovation to Deliver High-End Healthcare Disruption
The lifeblood of any successful company stems from a sustained stream of commercially viable innovations, both incremental and breakthrough. As any seasoned executive will tell you, maintaining that steady stream is one of the most difficult management challenges he or she faces.
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- Education, Health Care
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To Achieve Good Health We Need Good Education
Maternal deaths have fallen from 540,000 a year in 1990 to 287,000 in 2010, and the momentum is there for to save even more lives of mothers and their precious infants.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Business Scales Up Action to Combat Global Malnutrition
Announced today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, forty global companies have now joined together to take global action against malnutrition.
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- Education, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Janssen announces new group targeting unmet global health needs
“To solve today’s greatest public health challenges, it’s essential that we emphasize the needs of the developing world in equal measure to those of the developed world,” said Paul Stoffels, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson & Johnson and Worldwide Chairman of Janssen.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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