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Indonesia rejects Sanofi dengue fever vaccine

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21-Apr-16 The Indonesian government has decided to develop its own vaccine with state-owned company PT Bio Farma. The Health Ministry said it would not use the vaccine issued by Sanofi because it did not match with the types of dengue commonly found in Indonesia. [image: Break Dengue]

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Cancer among top ten causes of disease in Vietnam

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13-Apr-16 Cancer is among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and more than two thirds of all cancer deaths occur in low and middle-income countries. In Vietnam, about 150,000 people are newly diagnosed with cancer and more than 75,000 die of the disease every year. [image: Vietnam Net]

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Standard Chartered launches five new eye care projects in India

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12-Apr-16 Emerging markets focused bank Standard Chartered has launched five eye care projects costing USD1.6 mn to bring in innovation and strengthen the delivery of eye-care to India by 2019. In India, around 15 million people are thought to be blind, with cataract the most avoidable blindness (63%), followed by refractive error (20%) and glaucoma (5.8%). Yet 80% of blindness is avoidable with the right treatment. [image: Standard Chartered Bank]

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Why overnutrition is a global problem - Australia

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11-Apr-16 There’s been a steep rise in global obesity rates over the past four decades. The number of obese people has risen from 105 mn in 1975, to 641 mn. Globally 1 in 5 adults will be obese by 2025 and in Australia it will be 1 in 3. Australia needs to urgently increase spending on the prevention of chronic diseases resulting from obesity, according to experts. [image: The Blue Room Bupa]

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One in three of world’s adults with diabetes is in China, WHO reports

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07-Apr-16 Nearly one in three adult diabetes sufferers is in China, where there has been an explosion in the numbers affected in the past quarter-century, a new WHO report shows. While China accounts for 19% of the world’s population, it had more than 30% of adult diabetes cases in 2014, or 129.3 mn. [image: South China Morning Post]

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