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IBM to accelerate tech innovations in healthcare entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
Eyeing the burgeoning need to build innovations, scale up quickly and accelerate growth, IBM is empowering the next generation of healthcare start-ups that develop solutions to solve the most complex health problems in the country.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Advances in AI and ML are reshaping health care
Applications of AI and ML in health care have enabled the industry to take on some of its biggest challenges in personal genetics, drug discovery and disease identification and management.
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- Health Care
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Drones to carry vital vaccines in Pacific in ground-breaking trial
In what's believed to be a world-first, drones are to be trialled to carry vaccines to remote communities in the Pacific.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- vaccines
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Social Business Roundup: SOCAP Aims for the Mainstream, Cambodia Caps Microcredit, Quali Health Simplifies Health Care
In announcing its new ownership, SOCAP mentioned the word “mainstream” six times – the popular social business and investing conference is clearly aiming to grow beyond its current niche. In Cambodia, the National Bank capped interest on microcredit to a maximum of 18 percent per year – about half of what some MFIs currently charge. And a visit to India inspired a South African doctor to launch a profitable health care clinic in a local shantytown. These stories and more in our weekly roundup.
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- Environment, Health Care, Investing
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Johnson & Johnson announces Africa Innovation Challenge winners
Healthcare company, Johnson & Johnson has announced the three winners of the Africa Innovation Challenge at the Global Entrepreneurship congress, which took place in Johannesburg.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Global health innovations can be game-changers at home, too
Rich and poor countries used to struggle with different sets of health issues: obesity in one versus malnutrition in the other; heart disease and cancer as leading causes of death in rich countries, deaths from infection topping the list in poor countries.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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CAMTech-X: Jugaadathon convenes India’s brightest minds to improve healthcare for country’s urban poor
Hundreds of global health innovators gathered in five cities across the country this past weekend for India’s largest multi-city healthcare hack-a-thon, hosted by The Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Global Health.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Designing A More Efficient, Temperature-Proof Vaccine
If they're not stored within a narrow temperature range of 36 to 46 degrees Fahrenheit, vaccines become unusable. Millions of doses are lost in the developing world each year for want of better-performing fridges and more storage space. The U.S. is not exempt from these issues.
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- Health Care
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- North America
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- public health, research, vaccines
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