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Stanford Bioengineer Manu Prakash Wins Prestigious MacArthur Grant
Manu Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering, has been named one of the 2016 fellows of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Pledge $3 Billion to Fighting Disease
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, last year said they would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares to charitable causes. Now they are putting a large chunk of that money to work.
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Drugs Take Back Seat to Seeds at Bayer With Monsanto Acquisition
In the wake of its $66 billion-acquisition of Monsanto, Bayer risks starving its lucrative drugs business of the resources it needs to grow.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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One Solution to Keeping India’s Girls in School: Cheap Maxi Pads
In many stores across India, shopkeepers wrap maxi pads in black polythene. If they don’t have that, the products go in a small carton or brown paper bag. Absent those, “we try hiding it while walking down the road because of how people would react," says Khushboo Navani, a 23-year-old woman who lives in Bikaner. "People give you weird looks," she adds.
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WHO Asks India to Engage Private Healthcare Sector to Tackle Dengue and Chikungunya
The WHO called for strengthening India's disease surveillance network by engaging private healthcare sector more for reliable counts of cases of dengue and chikungunya, which have claimed over 80 lives and affected more than 50,000 people across the country. Terming engagement with private healthcare sector as "critical", WHO said that even probable dengue cases during outbreaks need to be reported to get more effective estimates while noting that strong surveillance, vector control, early diagnosis and case management and public awareness are key to control these vector-borne diseases.
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Global Healthcare Companies Seek to Bet on Indian Startups for Fresh Start
Last year when global oncology leader Roche signed a $550-million deal to team up with Curadev, a tiny Noidabased firm set up by two seasoned researchers, it didn't really make the headlines. Yet the deal, cherry-picked by a global scouting team of the Swiss biotech giant, resonated with other innovation-based drug makers and medical device leaders such as Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Philips and Medtronic.
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An African Trailblazer in Healthcare Services
Standing outside her home in central Rwanda, 19-year-old Ernestine Ituze describes falling ill last year. She was coughing violently and had lost her appetite. A community health worker diagnosed tuberculosis and Ituze was treated at the nearby government hospital, a few kilometres down a red dirt road lined with banana and mango trees. A few months later, she is healthy and continuing her studies to be an accountant.
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Doctors Test Drones to Speed Up Delivery of Lab Tests
Three years ago, Geoff Baird bought a drone. The Seattle dad and hobby plane enthusiast used the 2.5-pound quadcopter to photograph the Hawaiian coastline and film his son's soccer and baseball games.
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- Health Care, Technology
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