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Ebola Vaccine Trials May Give Placebo to Those at Risk
As global health officials rush to begin human trials of two promising Ebola vaccines in West African medical workers, a daunting question remains unanswered: Who gets the placebo injection?
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Ebola Protective Suits Are In Short Supply
The Ebola outbreak created a demand for personal protective equipment. Clinics can go through hundreds of PPE suits a day. Manufacturers increased production but agencies say there's still a shortage.
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Band-Aids Won’t Fix Ebola: Long-term solutions in resource-poor settings will require innovative technologies and strategies
Ebola can be contained and its mortality rate reduced in functional health systems that provide a basic standard of care, even in emergency conditions. Poor countries currently lack these systems, but they can be developed through innovative technologies and strategies.
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Plagues on the Poor: What Ebola Can Learn From Malaria
If the U.S. spent more money on disease prevention and clinics—and less on vaccines and drugs—everyone in the world would stand to benefit
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Plant-based vaccines challenge big pharma
The recent revelation that the Ebola drug ZMapp is produced in the leaves of tobacco plants captured global attention.
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GlaxoSmithKline, NewLink working to bring Ebola vaccines online: WHO
Both GlaxoSmithKline and NewLink Genetics are working to boost their capacity to make Ebola vaccines, with a goal of a "very significant increase in scale during the first half of 2015," the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
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Handling the next pandemic
Can the global health system stop Ebola? The answer has more to do with Samuel Kaziraho than you might expect.
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Developing countries should enroll medical and nursing students from rural areas
Nearly one third of medical and nursing students in developing countries may have no intention of working in their own countries after graduation, while less than one fifth of them intend to work in rural areas where they are needed most, according to a new study.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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