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Government launches telemedicine initiative ‘Sehat’
To provide health care facilities in rural areas, the government today launched a telemedicine initiative in collaboration with Apollo Hospitals under which people can consult doctors through video link.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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WHO to study use of sanctions as part of global epidemic response
The World Health Organization said Tuesday it will study the idea of using sanctions to punish countries that do not comply with global health regulations, following widespread failures in the response to the Ebola outbreak.
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- Health Care
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PRESS RELEASE: Tech-based social solutions competition looking for nominations
The competition, organized by Siemens Stiftung, seeks to identify innovative technical solutions to tackle global challenges in basic supply in the developing world.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- infrastructure
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Turn on your sensors, development is about to go ‘wearable’
They range from the simple to the astounding, the familiar to the science fictional. Sensors are all around us, capturing information and turning it into something else: an electrical signal, the basis for a decision, a diagnosis, a warning.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Medicine in India: ‘Qualified Quacks’ and a Baffling Drug Landscape
In India, stories of doctors being drunk, using rusty instruments or bicycle pumps during surgery, or ordering unjustified procedures are increasingly common.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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West Africa’s air pollution is reaching dangerously high levels—and we don’t know the worst of it
In Lagos, smog has quickly become another aspect of city life. In the city of more than 21 million people – known to some as “Africa’s first city” – the majority of residents live near industrial plants, breathing in exhaust from thousands of cars and millions of generators providing power to the city.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health, research
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Fast paper test detects three diseases at once
A quick, paper-based blood test which can simultaneously detect the Ebola, dengue and yellow fever viruses has shown promising results in tests, say researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
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Making a More Modern Diaphragm
How the new, very purple “Caya” is trying to make an old-fashioned birth-control option relevant again.
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- Education, Health Care
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