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Weekly Roundup: Jill Stein’s SRI Controversy; Culture Change as Opportunity; Mobile Money’s Hungry
The hubbub about Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's insufficiently green investments might seem like a tempest in a teapot ... but it could signal an important shift; changing attitudes and rising disposable incomes in Kenya are opening possibilities for insurance firms; and research shows mobile money's driving a price revolution in international remittances. That, and more, in this week's Roundup.
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3 Futuristic Health Sensors That Could Save Lives
Entrepreneurs at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego on Wednesday showed off what they believe is the solution to lowering medical costs and bringing better care to the developing world.
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- Health Care, Technology
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USP publishes first global health standard
The United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) has published its first global health standard. The standard is about an antiseptic, and it is aimed at assisting newborn children in developing countries.
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Contraceptive Rates in Poorest Countries Leap by 30 Million Users in Four Years
The number of women in the world’s poorest countries using modern forms of contraception has jumped by more than 30 million in the past four years, according to a report that found the most significant progress had been made in sub-Saharan Africa.
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China Approves Pfizer Vaccine Prevenar
Chinese regulators have approved Pfizer Inc's blockbuster vaccine Prevenar 13, the U.S. drugmaker said on Wednesday, a breakthrough for the firm after it was forced to shut its vaccine business in China last year.
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- South Asia
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Opinion: Understanding effective service delivery for rural health care
What differentiates a high performing health service delivery model from an ordinary service delivery system? Over the years, with the exponential rise in health care spending, health practitioners are increasingly looking for affordable and value-added service models as the key ingredient for delivering effective care.
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Cheap cancer measures could save hundreds of thousands of lives in poor countries
Health interventions costing as little as $1.72 per person could prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths from breast and cervical cancer in developing countries, scientists said on Tuesday.
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University Students in Bolivia Create Chip That Helps Detect Tuberculosis
Two Bolivian university students have created a chip for microscopes that automatically detects tuberculosis in sputum samples, a procedure that in Bolivia and other developing countries is normally done with not always accurate bacilloscopy.
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