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IBM steps up efforts in fight against Zika
International Business Machines said on Wednesday it would provide its technology and resources to help track the spread of the Zika virus. Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), a leading research institution affiliated with the Brazilian Ministry of Health, plans to use IBM’s technology to analyze information from official data about human travel patterns to anecdotal observations recorded on social media.
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Collegian’s Nonprofit Empowers Needy Africans Via Entrepreneurship
As an American high school student, John Cefalu never imagined he would be in the business of creating entrepreneurs in Africa, but a trip to Kenya changed his worldview.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Four scientists win a prize for aiding health, nutrition
Four scientists — three of them in Africa — have won US $250,000 for combined success in improving nutrition and health through combating vitamin A deficiency in vulnerable populations.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This Bill Gates-backed fund wants to ‘disrupt’ vaccine delivery in poor countries
At the very top of a tall glass building, in a room overlooking Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, a group of entrepreneurs are working on new ways to get vaccines to the people who need them most.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A passage of hope on India’s hospital train
For 25 years, the Lifeline Express has been travelling through India to bring health services to millions of Indians who are in need of surgery, treatment and diagnostics but have no access to medical care. The hospital train is their only hope for a cure.
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Rwanda: Babyl Launches Digital Healthcare System
A new digital health care system for patients to access doctors through their mobile devices was introduced yesterday at the opening of this year's trade exhibition in Gikondo, Kigali.
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Press Release: Rijuven Releases ‘Clinic in a Bag’
Clinic in a Bag is the newest and most robust examination platform from Rijuven. Designed to be deployed alongside a clinician to any point of care, Clinic in a Bag or “CIB” provides clinical decision support outside of the facility by combining a highly comprehensive suite of connected devices with cloud analysis, remote monitoring capabilities, telemedicine connectivity, EMR patient management and on-demand scheduling.
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Viewpoint: How 3Ps can deliver new drugs for world’s biggest killer
Imagine a disease that is the world’s biggest killer, with 1.5 million people dying from it each year. It is a disease that touches every country, but some, such as South Africa, Uzbekistan and India, have been hit particularly hard. This disease has a treatment which, in its simplest form, takes six months to complete.
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