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Insight: The poison pill in India’s search for cheap food
Nearly a decade ago, the Indian government ruled out a ban on the production and use of monocrotophos, the highly toxic pesticide that killed 23 children this month in a village school providing free lunches under a government-sponsored program
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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How Do You Design a Medical Gadget That Costs 95 Percent Less Than Before?
The Food and Drug Administration classifies an endoscope as a Class II medical device, but technically it’s just a long plastic tube with a light and camera at the end.
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- Health Care
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Seeking Scalable Solutions to Promote Nutrient-Rich Food: Insights from young innovators in Ashoka Changemakers’ Nutrients for All idea exchange
To have widespread, affordable access to nutrient-rich food, we need to work with the food industry, and take advantage of advances in science and technology. But how can this work in practice? Ashoka Changemakers and Thought for Food hosted an idea exchange with several young innovators, who discussed their work and the challenges of making nutritious food widely available.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Battle of the bulge
As waistlines grow, so does the fight against junk food
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- Health Care
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- nutrition
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Bribery Serves as Life-Support for Chinese Hospitals
Bribery is the lubricant that helps keep China’s public hospitals running, and the health system would struggle to function without illegal payments to poorly paid doctors and administrators, say medical practitioners and industry experts.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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What healthcare leaders can do to nurture innovation
The five top tips to harness potential and give staff a licence to suggest changes
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action: Using mobile technology to improve maternal health access in South Africa
According to UNICEF, 4,300 mothers die in South Africa every year due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth, 20,000 babies are stillborn and another 23,000 die in their first month of life. In total, 75,000 children do not make it to their fifth birthday.
To address these challenges, mobile technologies are providing women with access to life-saving maternal health information.- Categories
- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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3D imaging could cut health care costs
Upstate company Qmetrics has developed technology that can take medical images like MRIs and turn them into a three-dimensional image or model.
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- Health Care