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Bill Gates fund invests in Australian start-up Atomo
An investment fund backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates has taken a multimillion dollar stake in an Australian biotech start-up. Atomo Diagnostics has invented quick, cheap and accurate tests for HIV, malaria and Ebola.
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- Health Care
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Narayana Health Launches Robotic Surgery Training Program
With training and skill sharing being the prime most factors determining a surgeon's success in robotic surgery, Bengaluru based Narayana Health on Thursday launched a robotic surgery training programme.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Future of Drug Pricing: Paying for Benefits Not Per Pill
Global pressure on health spending is forcing the $1 trillion-a-year pharmaceutical industry to look for new ways to price its products: charging based on how much they improve patients' health, rather than how many pills or vials are sold.
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When Doctors Can’t Reach Sick People in Madagascar, They Send This Medicine-Carrying Drone
Due to the continued use of drone strikes by the military, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are often associated more with ending lives than saving them. That’s a trend researchers at Stony Brook University want to help reverse.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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SA To Unveil Momentous Mobile Clinic
The world’s first primary healthcare clinic on wheels will be launched in the South African city of Ladysmith on Thursday. The Phelophepa health train is an initiative by Eskom and Transnet, the electricity and freight logistics utilities respectively, aimed at providing mobile health services to communities across the country.
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- Health Care
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Atlanta Nonprofit Focused on Health Gets $2 Million Award
An Atlanta nonprofit focused on global health known for highlighting the work of its partners is getting a turn in the spotlight and a $2 million award from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
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- North America
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This Startup is Fixing Health Care…in Kabul
Aschkan Abdul-Malek had come to Afghanistan to solve problems. He was working for a consulting firm, and in 2013 was helping the World Bank study healthcare constraints in developing countries. One day, as he was home talking to his cook, he learned how personally devastating the healthcare problem could be: The cook was spending six times his annual income to fly his wife to India for medical care, because she couldn’t find the doctor she needed at home.
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Piloting Portable Ultrasounds in Rural Ghana
For women living in rural locations in Ghana, portable ultrasounds may be a useful tool in preventing pregnancy complications. Although the World Health Organization recommends that pregnant women have at least four antenatal care visits and skilled attendants at birth, many pregnant women in rural communities in low-income countries do not meet these recommendations.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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