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Innovative Infant Resuscitator May Be Introduced in India
An innovation that enables infants, who have difficulty in breathing, to respire immediately after birth, developed by a researcher from the faculty of Harvard Medical School along with a few others could be introduced in India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Barclays Africa Selects 10 Startups for e-Health, Fintech Accelerator
Barclays Africa has chosen 10 startups from the e-health and fintech sectors to take part in its 13-week Tech Lab accelerator programme, aimed at providing startups with access to business mentors, industry leaders, influencers and experts.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: TPP IP Chapter “A Disaster for Global Health”
Wikileaks leaked the final draft of the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) over the weekend, which has been panned by various “experts”.
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Social Entrepreneurs Must Use System to Attack Climate Change, Poverty
Tackling social problems including climate change and poverty takes more than throwing money at the problem. Social entrepreneurs must attack it from the inside, said Sally Osberg, co-author of Getting Beyond Better.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indian American Social Entrepreneur Bhagwati Agrawal in CNN’s Top 10 Heroes List
Bhagwati Agrawal, an Indian American social entrepreneur, has advanced into CNN’s Top Ten Heroes of 2015 for creating a rainwater harvesting system that provided safe drinking water to more than 10,000 people across six villages in Rajasthan.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Expanding the Boundaries of Global Health: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sector
“There is a shift taking place in the public health arena to strategically engage the private sector to address global health needs,” said Bridget McHenry, a fellow for Global Health Fellows Program II, serving as organizational development adviser for Office of Population and Reproductive Health in U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Health Bureau.
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Digital Health Market Growth Forecast at 16.87% CAGR to 2019
The Global Digital Health Market - Market Research 2015-2019 report says telemedicine technology has huge potential in rural areas and developing economies such as African countries due to the lack of experienced physicians in these areas.
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Five Minutes with Carolyn Yarina, CEO of Sisu Global Health
On a visit to a clinic in rural India, Carolyn Yarina saw a need for a device that can separate blood into plasma and white and red cells — without electricity to power a centrifuge.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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