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The Startups Using Apps and Phones to Solve the Global Healthcare Crisis
At this year's WIRED Health, pharmaceutical company Sandoz is launching its first-ever startup competition. Sandoz HACk challenges young entrepreneurs to use mobile-health technologies to help bring access to healthcare in tough environments.
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- Health Care, Technology
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High-Pressure Spray Delivers Vaccines Directly into Cheek
As good chefs stress, presentation matters. The same holds true for vaccinemakers, who know that how you deliver the ingredients powerfully affects potency. Now, researchers have devised a gel pill that can painlessly spray vaccine into the cheek and reach cells in the underlying tissue, potentially triggering what’s known as a mucosal immune response. This, in turn, might help thwart infections with pathogens like HIV, human papillomavirus, influenza, and gonococci that enter the body through the mouth, nose, or genitals.
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- North America
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Floating Hospitals Treat Those Impacted by Rising Seas
In parts of Bangladesh, flooding makes it impossible to build permanent hospitals. But that doesn’t mean people can’t get healthcare.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- North Africa & Near East
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Full steam ahead for healthcare providing ‘trains of hope’
The Phelophepa train draws a crowd wherever it goes. The sound of the lumbering 19-car clinic-on-rails signals the arrival of badly needed free healthcare for thousands of South Africans as it tours the country.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Technique Uses Gold Nanoparticles to Rapidly Detect Ebola
Researchers from the University at Albany have developed a test that can detect the presence of Ebola virus from a urine sample, much faster and more cost-effectively than current methods. The technique, developed by biochemist Mehmet Yigit, relies on biomarkers and gold nanoparticles, which if triggered turn the sample red to indicate infection, or purple to indicate no infection.
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- North America
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Viewpoint: Leading With Our Hearts and Minds
As the UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis and the former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator overseeing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), I have become an expert at presenting facts and figures to justify expenditures on AIDS and TB. And that’s fine. It is imperative that those who run and advocate for global health programs prove that money invested in providing assistance to those who are suffering from deadly infectious diseases is being spent well.
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- Health Care
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Land Rover’s Bespoke Discovery Comes With a Drone to Help Emergency Services
At this year's Geneva Motor Show, Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) has unveiled a bespoke version of its new Land Rover Discovery designed for use the Austrian Red Cross.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Social Entrepreneur Weaves Together Benefits for Bangladesh Garment Workers
Saif Rashid believes that, given the right market opportunities, millions of Bangladeshis can lift themselves up financially. With an innovative new model called APON, he is empowering the workers of Bangladesh’s ready-made garment manufacturing industry to increase their disposable income and build better, healthier lives.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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