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‘Quality, a concern for Indian healthcare sector’
As many as 98,000 hospital deaths occur annually due to medical errors, which also increase the cost of treatment for patients, according to K.K. Kalra, Chief Executive Officer of the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH).
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Finding real wealth in health industry
It may be the best time ever to be living right now. Over the past four decades, the life expectancy of Asians has increased by more than a decade to more than 70 years, thanks to the development of the healthcare industry. New drugs, medical equipment, therapies, organizations, policies and healthcare systems have emerged one after another, bringing improvements in people's lives and changes in their thinking about health management.
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- Education, Health Care
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Sustainable Harvest-Rwanda Launches First Let’s Talk Coffee Rwanda
On February 18 and 19, Sustainable Harvest Inc., through its nonprofit entity, Relationship Coffee Institute, will launch its Rwanda operation with the first Let’s Talk Coffee Rwanda event, convening in partnership with Women for Women International (WfWI). Sustainable Harvest’s relationship coffee initiative in Rwanda is funded by a three-year grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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- Education
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Merck Serono Supports India’s Two-tier Drug Pricing Policy
The US Chamber of Commerce may think India is an inhospitable terrain for innovation, but surprisingly, Big Pharma doesn't agree.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- research, supply chains
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How to Keep Clean-Burning Cookstoves From Gathering Dust: Devices that cut down on respiratory diseases too often aren’t being used
Smoky indoor cook fires and traditional stoves lead to 2 million deaths per year. In response, various programs have distributed cookstoves to 830 million people over the past 50 years. Unfortunately, many of these clean-burning cookstoves are unused. New monitoring technologies are being designed to find out why.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Kenya: M – Lab Wins Impact Economy Innovations Grant
M:Lab East Africa identifies, nurtures and helps build startups in the knowledge economy by providing training, market research, access to finance and infrastructure among many other services.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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CDC health projects improve disease detection and control
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) global health security (GHS) projects on early disease detection, response and prevention in Uganda and Vietnam have resulted in improvements in those areas.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Pakistan: Where conspiracy theories can cost a child’s life
American parents may have the luxury of being able to buy into odd ideas about vaccines — their children are protected by others' immunity. But elsewhere, the results are tragic.
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- Education, Health Care