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Quick test finds signs of diarrheal disease
Bioengineers at Rice University and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston have developed a simple, highly sensitive and efficient test for the diarrheal disease cryptosporidiosis that could have great impact on global health.
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- Education, Health Care
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Dengue and West Nile vaccines come closer to reality
Scientists have discovered a key aspect to how the dengue and West Nile viruses replicate in the cells of their host and how they manipulate the immune system as they spread.
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- Education, Health Care
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‘A Meeting of Minds’: World’s largest global health and social entrepreneurship conference set for April
The 11th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale University will draw more than 2,200 participants from around the world. Speakers will cover a variety of topics, including social entrepreneurship, social businesses, business in global health, design thinking, maternal and child health, and non-communicable diseases.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Big pharma firms pushes for US action against India over patent worries
Global pharmaceutical firms are pressuring the United States to act against India to stop more local companies producing up to a dozen new varieties of cheap generic drugs still on-patent, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- governance
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IBM starts rolling out Watson supercomputer in Africa
IBM says system will improve farming, e-commerce, health.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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EU and UNICEF boost their partnership to improve child and maternal health and to save more children
The European Union announced today that it has allocated €320 million ($431 million) through UNICEF to improve the health and nutrition of children and women in 15 developing countries and to help speed progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
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- Health Care
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Mobile devices to empower health workers under MMPs
Adoption of Information Technology is important in improving access to healthcare in India. After pilot projects in a few states, Central Ministry of Health is planning to empower health workers with handheld devices like mobiles phones for data collection at the grass-root level.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Big pharma and healthcare providers join forces to promote wellbeing
With cash-strapped healthcare systems around the world struggling, is it time to call on pharmaceutical companies for new innovation?
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- Health Care
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