Among the hits: a Hepatitis B vaccine, a treatment for inter-cranial aneurysms and a bovine growth hormone.

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Bharat Biotech sells a single dose of its hepatitis B vaccine for 20 cents and Bharti Airtel provides one of the cheapest wireless telephone services in the world.

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Biogen went on to create one of the first treatments for hepatitis C and the vaccine given for hepatitis B before becoming a dominant player in treating multiple sclerosis.

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The vaccine against hepatitis B, a sexually transmitted disease, has been given to infants since 1991.

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That's how we've made possible scientific research that has led to medical breakthroughs like the vaccine for Hepatitis B, and technological wonders like GPS. That's how we have Social Security and a minimum wage, and laws to protect the food we eat and the water we drink and the air that we breathe.

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Hepatitis C has been described as an "approaching epidemic" - and unlike hepatitis A and B, there is no vaccine against it.

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Cohen took the malaria surface protein used in Ballou's vaccine and fused it to a protein from the hepatitis B virus, creating a harmless particle that looked like a virus to the immune system.

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