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India to Repackage State-Supplied Condoms in Bid to Attract Users
When it comes to the wrappers of India's state-supplied condoms, boring is out, attractive is in, but erotic is too much.
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Focus on Poverty: Sharing Genetic Data in Health Crises
Genetic information that could help slow disease outbreaks may be kept private by researchers out of fear of violating patients’ rights — that was one of the concerns expressed in a Nature article recently.
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How Debartha, Ritwik and Jayant Are Revolutionizing Waste Collection Systems in India
“Being good means nothing unless you are willing to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done,” said an angry Abraham Setrakian in the US vampire apocalypse show ‘The Strain.’ And while our planet may not be under threat from vampires, the danger to its environment from the waste-dumping activities of human beings is not just real, it is critical.
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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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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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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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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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Microneedle Patches Could Be the Future of Vaccinations
Georgia Tech professor Mark Praunitz has spent two decades developing microneedle patches.
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