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Disease-fighting Data: In Sierra Leone, tracking Ebola’s economic impact
Bad information has been problematic during the Ebola outbreak. As a result, IPA has been collecting data on the economic impacts of the crisis and is working on piloting and evaluating an electronic contact-tracing system that could substantially improve efficiency and reduce Ebola transmission rates.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Press Release: Lions Health Partners with UNICEF and Unilever to Create an Innovative Global Health Campaign
Last night, Lions Health together with UNICEF and Unilever, launched the Young Lions Health Award, an exciting new competition for young creatives and marketers that aims to improve challenges facing global health systems in developing countries.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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New Tuberculosis Drug Enters First Trial: The Good and Sad News
The maiden human trial of a potential tuberculosis drug — the first in six years — has now commenced.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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The Primary Care Innovator’s Handbook: Leaders in the field share primary care knowledge, ideas
The Center for Health Market Innovations has released The Primary Care Innovator’s Handbook: Voices from Leaders in the Field, an attempt to share knowledge between innovators in an open and informal way, and to encourage more conversations among the community of innovators working to improve primary care.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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- public health
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Hialeah Health-Tech Firm Attracts Investor Attention
Working out of a Starbucks in 2012, Obdulio Piloto saw an article about the Peter Thiel Foundation’s Breakout Labs’ funding effort for revolutionary technology projects.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- impact investing
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Global Pharma’s R&D Re-Balancing
Earlier this week, in Michael Woodhead’s superb blog China Medical News, he wrote about “major problems with ‘serious’ research clinical trails carried out in China.” Michael points to a JAMA article and then proceeds to elaborate:
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- research
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The Female Health Company Joins the International AIDS Society’s Industry Liaison Forum
The Female Health Company (NASDAQ - CM: FHCO), which manufactures the world's leading female condom, today announced its corporate partnership with the International AIDS Society's Industry Liaison Forum (ILF). The Female Health Company, the only HIV prevention technology company represented in the ILF, will work alongside preeminent thought leaders, research and academic institutions, and pharmaceutical companies in setting the tone for the next generation's response to the global HIV epidemic.
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- Health Care
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The Rising Global Health Crisis No One Is Talking About
torcyclists can seem invincible as they dodge and weave their way through traffic and zip down alleyways. But beyond a motorcycle’s quick and convenient capabilities is a dark story: a developing global crisis of road fatalities.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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