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Inside the Technology That Can Turn Your Smartphone into a Personal Doctor
The fantastic tricorder device that “Bones” used to scan aliens on “Star Trek” is nearly at hand—in your cellphone.
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- Health Care, Technology
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The Rx for Doctor, Entrepreneur Communication: Improving global health care includes speaking the same language
Both physicians and entrepreneurs, hopefully, are interested in improving the lives of the medically underserved around the world. To make this happen, the entrepreneurs need the doctors and the doctors need the entrepreneurs.
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- Education, Health Care
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- scale, skill development
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Janssen and Stop TB Partnership to expand access to tuberculosis medicines
Janssen has entered into a new agreement with the Stop TB Partnership that will facilitate access to tuberculosis therapies in a number of poorer countries.
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- Health Care
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Drug-Resistant Bugs a Global Threat, WHO Says
Germs that defy antibiotics are now a major global health threat, causing near-untreatable cases of diarrhea, sepsis, pneumonia and gonorrhea, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
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- Health Care
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iKure – Paving the Way to Accessible and Affordable Healthcare through Software Development
iKure - a Kolkata-based social enterprise dedicated to bringing affordable health care to India’s poorest populations - has created these spot camps as an integral part of their inventive model for a network of health clinics in India’s rural areas. In addition to providing access to doctors and medicine prescriptions, they provide the necessary outreach to tell villagers about where and when the clinics are and how they can access medical consultations and medicine.
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- Health Care
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Bill Gates Wants To Launch His Own Version Of Shark Week With The Actual Deadliest Creatures
No, not lions, tigers or bears -- the deadliest creatures on earth are mosquitoes.
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- Health Care
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Rohingya Health Crisis In West Myanmar After Aid Groups Forced Out
The United Nations says at least 40 Rohingya were killed there by Buddhist Rakhine villagers. The government denies any killings occurred.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- governance, philanthropy
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NIH Center Sets New Goals for Global Health Research and Training
Fogarty plans to reinvigorate its efforts to train more developing-country scientists in these new areas of global health, where the field is moving and where the most interesting discoveries are yet to be made, according to the plan.
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance, research
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