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Intel Unveils New Chip for Mobility Healthcare Delivery
World's largest chip maker Intel Corporation has unveiled a new sensing platform for enabling mobile-based healthcare delivery to masses.
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The India Sterilization Tragedy: Highlighting the need for better choices, safer procedures
There is very little attention being paid to a clear, immediate reason for the danger of these sterilization procedures in India – use of un-sterilized surgical equipment.
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Twitter Top Ten – 11/16/14: Our favorite tweets of the week
After a successful pilot period, our Twitter Top Ten makes its debut today as a permanent feature, with ten great tweets selected by NextBillion’s editorial staff. Thank you to everyone who’s provided feedback, encouragement and retweets to this feature - we’re glad the response has been so positive.
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Weekly Roundup 11-15-14: New worries about India being the ‘pharmacy of the developing world’
India is known as the “pharmacy of the developing world." That’s why it was so scary to learn this week that tainted medicines might have been behind the botched government-run sterilizations there. We discuss that story, and other global health developments, in this Roundup.
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Africa: Combatting Health Risks and Promoting Better Hand Washing and Hygiene
Saraya Co. Ltd, a Japanese manufacturer of hygiene and sanitation products, joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with an initiative to decrease healthcare associated infections in Uganda.
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Pfizer and Aid Groups Team Up on Depo-Provera Contraceptive for Developing World
Depo-Provera, an injectable contraceptive given once every three months, is already a popular choice of women in developing countries, who value the convenience and discretion of not having to take a daily birth control pill. But the injections are out of reach for many more women.
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Business Models, Best Practices and Measures in Access to Medicine: Index to be released Monday ranks pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to improve availability in developing countries
The Access to Medicine Index, which is published every two years and independently ranks pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to improve access to medicine in developing countries, will be released on Monday.
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Can innovation help stop children dying from pneumonia?
Pneumonia is the world’s number one cause of preventable death among children under five years old. Every year, pneumonia kills nearly one million children – more than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. What makes this number of pneumonia deaths so unfathomable is that its cure is well-known, inexpensive and widely available.
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