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Global Hepatitis Network against ‘silent crisis’
Hepatitis may not be as notorious a disease as HIV/AIDS, but it kills almost as many people each year.
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Global leaders sign comprehensive charter to tackle stunting in children
The fight against stunting - the world's most urgent nutritional challenge - got a big boost through a global agreement signed by world leaders in London on Saturday.
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- nutrition
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New Vaccine Drives Africa Meningitis Cases to Lowest in Decade
Case numbers in Africa's meningitis season this year were the lowest in 10 years thanks to a cheap new vaccine designed to treat a type of the disease common in the so-called meningitis belt, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Timeline: Smartphone-enabled health devices
Mobile health has come a long way since the start of 2009 when Apple demonstrated on-stage at its World Wide Developer Conference how blood pressure monitors and blood glucose meters could connect to the iPhone 3G via cables or Bluetooth. MobiHealth News has tracked smartphone-enabled health and fitness devices over the course of the past five years.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Micro Health Insurance: Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
Is there a future for micro health insurance? Is it destined to go by the wayside as governments take on an increasingly larger share of the burden of providing coverage to their populations? Should it?
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Global Surgery: Myths and Realities
What the world really needs is consistent, quality surgical services in developing countries. In communities around the world, lack of training and supplies mean there is little to no surgical treatment available for injuries, maternal complications, cancer, congenital malformations, and emergencies like appendicitis
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- Health Care
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At Grameen Foundation, an international nonprofit becomes a software developer
The Grameen Foundation was providing health care to pregnant women in Ghana in 2010 when the organization had an idea: As cellphones become more widely available in developing nations, health information can be quickly disseminated to poor patients in remote locations via voice and text messaging.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa