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Drug ATM for South Africans
The pharmacy dispensing unit (PDU) is being piloted at Thembalethu Clinic in Johannesburg. It is a self-service machine where patients can obtain their medication.
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Forus Health’s 3nethra Neo to screen premature babies for eye condition
Lightweight, easily portable, handheld, rugged and highly cost effective is how one would describe the 3nethra Neo, a Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) imaging platform, developed by Bengaluru based Forus Health. 3nethra Neo screens prematurely born babies who could potentially have retinopathy of prematurity, a condition wherein abnormal blood vessels grow in the retina, the layer in the eye that enables us to see.
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South Africa: Condom Manufacturing Plant to Create Jobs
A total of 145 potential direct jobs are to be created when a latex condom manufacturing plant at the Dube Trade Port in Durban is opened. The plant is a result of a partnership - facilitated by the Department of Trade and Industry -between US company HBM and SA Health Protecting Service which is a local medical consumable supplier in both the public and private sector.
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How to Make a Hardware Store Drill Into a Surgical Tool
When it comes to global public health, a lot of effort goes towards stamping out disease like HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis—and rightly so. These are plagues in many parts of the world. But something we typically focus less energy on, is surgery.
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HIV vaccine trials take center stage at world’s largest global health conference
Hopes for a truly effective HIV vaccine were mostly the stuff of dreams in 2000, the last and only time Durban, South Africa hosted the biennial meeting of the International AIDS Society. The global HIV Vaccine Trials Network, based at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and led by virologist and former Fred Hutch President and Director Dr. Larry Corey, was just being organized.
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Weekly Roundup: Uruguay smokes ‘Big Tobacco’, Safaricom ups the ante, critic pens a (RED) herring
Uruguay wins a major legal battle against a huge tobacco company, Safaricom ups the ante in its battle with banks in Kenya, and our editors take issue with a provocative critique of a popular "social venture" in this Roundup of the week's social business developments.
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Serum Institute to launch a new vaccine every year, says Poonawala
Pune-based vaccines maker Serum Institute plans to launch a new vaccine every year and will launch the first ever synthetic vaccine for rabies by the year-end, CEO, Adar Poonawala, has said.
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Heart stents to get cheaper in India; medical devices industry frowns at move
India would soon reduce the prices of stents used in procedures for treatment of heart ailments. The union health ministry on Wednesday added coronary stents to the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM), 2015, which would now face a reduction in prices.
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