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Social enterprise Findacure aims to unlock new insights into rare diseases
Through his social enterprise Nick Sireau and his team aim to change the field of drug development.
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- Health Care
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Introducing NB’s New Health Care Editor
I’m excited to announce the newest member of the NextBillion team. Veteran journalist Kyle Poplin has joined NextBillion as the new editor of NB Health Care.
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- Health Care
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Can NGOs and pharmaceutical firms partner to solve global health issues?
A few weeks ago, in a remote Rwandan village, I met a nurse who had set up her own clinic to serve the local residents. From a single, brightly decorated room, she was prescribing medicines and administering basic care that patients might otherwise have to walk 15 miles or more to reach.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Good Ideas Meet Elbow Grease: Evidence Action committed to taking evidence-based programs and services to large scale
Evidence Action begins from the premise that achieving scale across sectors and contexts is a solvable challenge, and that it can lead to gains in expertise and experience. The private sector has demonstrated this to be the case.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Telemedicine Improves Patient Outcomes: Study
Telemedicine technology is a hot commodity these days -- but is it actually effective in improving patient outcomes? Researchers at UC Davis Children's Hospital say it is.Researchers found telemedicine consults significantly improved outcomes for patients treated in rural pediatric emergency departments that lack pediatric specialists.
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- Health Care
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Uganda: Doctors Get Offers They Can’t Resist
Every two days, at least one doctor heads to the airport of a poor African country and flies off to work in Europe or America. Up to 2000 doctors have left in the last 10 years; leaving Africa with the highest disease burden in the world and the lowest number of health workers.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Clean Toilets Can Help Improve the Health of Undernourished Children in India
Thirty-eight percent of India’s children are stunted, according to a recent report by The Lancet on malnutrition. That means that nearly 62 million children in India will not reach their full physical or mental potential.Reducing that number – and we must if India is to reach its fullest potential – is a big effort, one that’s been under way for some time.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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The low cost technology saving premature babies’ lives
Every year more than 20 million babies are born prematurely or with low birth weight - and an estimated 450 of them die each hour.Yet most of these deaths could be avoided by simply keeping them warm.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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