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Pfizer, IIT Delhi Launch Incubation Accelerator for Healthcare Innovations
Pharma major Pfizer and IIT Delhi on Tuesday announced the launch of 'The Pfizer IIT-Delhi Innovation and IT program', an incubation accelerator initiative at the institute.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Chennai’s New Strategy to Eliminate TB
Thanks to the Zero TB Cities project, if all goes well, Chennai may drastically reduce TB mortality, shrink the number of new cases annually and impact TB prevalence in the city in a matter of 3-5 years.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Vodafone India Looks to Double Impact of CSR Programme
Vodafone India wants to double the impact of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme. Last year, around 50 employees volunteered for CSR initiatives, working for eight weeks at 25 NGOs and impacting about 1 million lives.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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Unitus Seed Fund to Raise $50 Million in Second Innings
Unitus Seed Fund, a 'social impact investor' that invests at very early seed stages, says it is raising a second fund of $50 million.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Are e-Wallets Beginning to Worry Banks in India?
In the last week of October, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma received a message from State Bank of India (SBI). It wasn’t good news. The message said the nation’s largest lender and its associate banks would no longer allow their customers to load money from their accounts onto the Paytm wallet.
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- Technology
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Hilleman to Invest in R&D for Low-Cost Vaccines
While the incidence of meningitis or meningococcal disease in India is low, the available vaccine for the disease is ‘narrow’ and extremely expensive, says Davinder Gill, CEO, Hilleman Laboratories, a ‘non-profit joint venture’ between US pharma major Merck and UK-based Wellcome Trust.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Cancer Drugs, Stents at 60 Percent Discount Soon
Over 200 cancer drugs, 186 medicines to treat cardiovascular diseases and 148 stents and cardiac implants will now be available at central government hospitals at prices 50-60% lower than the open market.
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- Health Care
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Ebix Launches ‘Ask a Doctor’ in Rajasthan, Plans to Expand
The Atlanta, Georgia-based international supplier of on-demand software and e-commerce services to the insurance, financial and healthcare industries, Ebix Inc., recently announced it gas launched its telemedicine service, “Ask a Doctor,” throughout the state of Rajasthan.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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