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U.S. Healthcare Market Pales in Comparison to the Rising Billions
The United States has the biggest healthcare industry in the world, spending approximately $3 trillion a year. By 2018, healthcare will comprise close to 18% US gross domestic product – a sizable market opportunity for a new generation of entrepreneurs selling innovations to the industry, the government, and increasingly directly to consumers.
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- Health Care
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Frugal Innovation: Key to India’s Healthy Future?
Way back in 2009, watching the Bollywood movie ‘3 Idiots’, I remember scoffing at one of the movie sequences where the protagonist Aamir Khan facilitates the delivery of a baby using a vacuum cleaner and an inverter made from a car battery. I somehow could not relate with the idea that a vacuum cleaner could be used as a suction pump to deliver babies. However, at that time I settled down to thinking that after all it’s from a Bollywood movie where anything is possible.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Vaxess Co-Founder Wants to ‘Play a Role in the Eradication of Polio’
It's a rarity that an idea borne out of a classroom has the ability to take shape in such a powerful way -- but the team at Vaxess Technologies has come closer than many.
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- Health Care
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M-Tiba Health App Launched in Kenya
Safaricom has launched a new health payment application named M-Tiba in partnership with PharmAccess Foundation and CarePay, to make medical payments easier and more transparent.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pregnancy-Test Style Malaria Kit to Speed Up Diagnosis
A paper-and-plastic kit that works like a pregnancy test but using blood rather than urine may offer a fast and simple way to diagnose malaria.
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Lives Depend on Climate Deal as Islands Bear Brunt of Impact
Small islands that bear the brunt of rising sea levels also face the greatest risk of diseases linked to a warmer planet, health leaders said on Saturday, as 13 million medical professionals added to the calls for a global climate pact.
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- Environment, Health Care
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World Bank, IFC Unveil Off-Grid Lighting Solution for Nigeria
The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have unveiled an off-grid solar power solution for Nigeria tagged Lighting Africa.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sanofi’s Unveils Made in India Injectable Polio Vaccine
Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, has unveiled ShanIPV, an injectable inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) manufactured by its affiliate Shantha Biotechnics, Hyderabad.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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