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Specialist Eye Care, Anywhere: Vula Mobile app enables rural health workers to conduct eye tests, consultations
The Vula app was developed when Dr. William Mapham, an ophthalmologist working in rural Swaziland, noted that poor communication between hospitals and outlying clinics meant that patients were often not referred to the eye clinic when they should have been.
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- Health Care, Technology
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NPO Aims to Bring Traditional Japanese Medicine Marketing to Africa
Eri Machii, a 37-year-old pharmacist, hopes a traditional Japanese method of marketing medicine will take off in Africa and help improve health care.
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- Health Care
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Ali Health Pens Tie-Up for Online Health Testing Platform
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's healthcare subsidiary will tie-up with Zhejiang DiAn Diagnostics Co Ltd to help develop an online hospital platform, the diagnostics firm said in a filing late on Monday.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Where Do Vaccine Fears Come From?
In his 2013 New Yorker article “Slow Ideas,” the Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande offered a compelling way to understand why some good ideas spread slowly (if at all) while others spread like wildfire.
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- Health Care
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Microneedle Patches Could Be the Future of Vaccinations
Georgia Tech professor Mark Praunitz has spent two decades developing microneedle patches.
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- Health Care
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Ebola Rapid Diagnostic Kit Developed by UK Scientists in Sierra Leone
A rapid Ebola diagnostic kit similar to a pregnancy kit has been developed by British military scientists and NHS medics in Sierra Leone.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WHO, UNOPS Sign Agreement to Scale-Up Partnership in Africa’s Health
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) on Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to intensify collaboration on sustainable management of health programs and projects in Africa.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Doctor-Turned-Entrepreneur Bullish About Ethiopia’s Healthcare Sector
As Africa’s second most populous country, Ethiopia’s healthcare industry holds significant potential. According to Dr Mohammed Nuri (42), founder and CEO of local pharmaceutical company Medtech Ethiopia, the industry commands more than 18bn Ethiopian birr (about US$881m) in annual sales. In recent years imports from abroad have risen, while foreign investors have entered partnerships with local players.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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