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Renewed fight against fake drugs in Africa takes off
Worried by the dearth of experts and available tools to combat falsified, substandard and counterfeit medicines in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria, the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has launched the Center for Pharmaceutical Advancement and Training (CePAT) in Accra, Ghana.
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- Health Care
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How AIDS Invented Global Health
Over the past half-century, historians have used episodes of epidemic disease to investigate scientific, social, and cultural change.
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- Education, Health Care
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China’s Healthcare Choice: Innovation or Access?
China today faces a dilemma in healthcare development between the present and the future. A fundamental choice will need to be made between financial incentives for future medical innovation or price controls that broaden present access to care
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- Health Care, Technology
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Diagnosing Jaundice by Phone: How ClikJaundice is using mobile technology to empower parents at the BoP
Jaundice is a potentially serious but easily treatable condition affecting about half of the world’s newborns. But at the BoP, limited access to health care can make it difficult to diagnose, putting babies at risk of severe brain damage. Now, in India, a new mobile tech product called ClikJaundice is providing remote diagnosis of jaundice at an affordable price.
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‘The case for aid? Poverty can be a catalyst for extremist views’
Philippe Douste-Blazy, special adviser to the UN secretary-general on innovative finance for development and chairman of Unitaid, the global health partnership, talks about his work
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What are the biggest problems for Indian healthcare system?
The Indian healthcare system is a dilapidated state. The costs seem to raise everyday which makes it unaffordable for a large chuck of the population. Recently Indian Health Progress (IHP) organisation with support from PhRMa discussed what the Indian healthcare system desperately needs and the steps to improve it. Aman Gupta, Principal Advisory of IHP shares the key areas that need to be developed urgently.
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Hospital Calculates The ROI Of An iPad At 9 Days
I attended a healthcare event last year that needs to remain nameless. It wasn’t a big event. In fact, it was very focused and relatively small. That’s about as much as we need to know because our headline came from that conference and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) who served it up wishes to remain anonymous. That’s ok, of course, but the story and lesson are definitely worth reviewing.
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Cracking the Code on Affordable Health Care – Part 2: An Interview With Dr. Devi Shetty, Founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya
Devi Shetty is one of the world’s most celebrated surgeons, and the founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya, one of India’s largest hospital chains.
He has pioneered a radically affordable (and profitable) health care model for heart surgeries and other care. In part 2 of our Q&A with Dr. Shetty, we discuss Narayana Hrudayalaya’s innovative use of technology, and its ambitious plans for the future.- Categories
- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- interviews, public health
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