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GSK and Google parent forge $715 million bioelectronic medicines firm
GlaxoSmithKline and Google parent Alphabet's life sciences unit are creating a new company focused on fighting diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body, jump-starting a novel field of medicine called bioelectronics.
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IBM steps up efforts in fight against Zika
International Business Machines said on Wednesday it would provide its technology and resources to help track the spread of the Zika virus. Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), a leading research institution affiliated with the Brazilian Ministry of Health, plans to use IBM’s technology to analyze information from official data about human travel patterns to anecdotal observations recorded on social media.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Collegian’s Nonprofit Empowers Needy Africans Via Entrepreneurship
As an American high school student, John Cefalu never imagined he would be in the business of creating entrepreneurs in Africa, but a trip to Kenya changed his worldview.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Can Pokemon Go Augment Global Health Reality?
We wondered if global health practitioners had hopes about the Pokemon Go craze helping to amplify their message, raise money and/or recruit volunteers and patients. So we reached out to some of NextBillion’s recent health care writers, asking them if they’ve thought of any practical applications Pokemon Go might have in the work that they do, day to day.
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Four scientists win a prize for aiding health, nutrition
Four scientists — three of them in Africa — have won US $250,000 for combined success in improving nutrition and health through combating vitamin A deficiency in vulnerable populations.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This Bill Gates-backed fund wants to ‘disrupt’ vaccine delivery in poor countries
At the very top of a tall glass building, in a room overlooking Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, a group of entrepreneurs are working on new ways to get vaccines to the people who need them most.
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Weekly Roundup: A $350 Million Boost for New Antibiotics, a ‘Brain Drain’ Dilemma and an Impact Investing ‘Ghetto’
With the global health threat posed by antibiotic resistance, it was kind of a big deal this week when a public-private partnership came up with $350 million to encourage pharmaceutical companies to make new antibiotics. We cover that story – along with the challenges of doctor migration, a landmark legal case against fossil fuel companies, and a provocative discussion on women's role in impact investing – in this roundup.
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- Environment, Health Care, Investing
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A passage of hope on India’s hospital train
For 25 years, the Lifeline Express has been travelling through India to bring health services to millions of Indians who are in need of surgery, treatment and diagnostics but have no access to medical care. The hospital train is their only hope for a cure.
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- South Asia
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- public health
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