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The Next Epidemic — Lessons from Ebola
Bill Gates writes: "It's instructive to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for another sort of global threat — war."
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- Health Care
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Why Big Data is the booster shot the healthcare industry needs
Big Data solutions can help the health care industry acquire, organise and analyse data to optimise resource allocation, plug inefficiencies, reduce cost of treatment, improve access to health care and advance medicinal research.
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- Health Care
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India Bets on Mobiles in Battle on Maternal, Child Deaths
India is betting on cheap mobile phones to cut some of the world's highest rates of maternal and child deaths, as it rolls out a campaign of voice messages delivering health advice to pregnant women and mothers.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition
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‘My Life Is So Much Better Now’
In the west, cataract surgery is a routine operation. But in rural Africa, people can find it extremely difficult to get diagnosed and treated for the condition - and it can ruin their lives.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indian Pharma Firms Must Innovate in Face of Generic Drugs Slowdown
Indian pharmaceuticals companies need to diversify their product range and focus on evolving as innovators as growth in generic market is expected to slow down over the next decade, a study by industry body Assocham said on Monday.
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Uptake Boost for African e-Health Startups
African healthcare providers are gradually recognising the convenience and cost benefits of adopting patient portals integrating financial and clinical data, according to Frost & Sullivan, giving a boost to a number of startups operating in the e-health sector.
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- Health Care, Technology
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What Gates Foundation’s $52M Investment Says About Social Enterprise Funding
Social enterprises seeking financing face a great many hurdles that more-traditional ventures don’t have to tackle.
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- Education, Health Care
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Who Lives and Who Dies?
What is it like to be a passenger on a bus, or standing in a cheering crowd at the finishing line of a marathon, in the seconds after a bomb goes off, when you know you’re hurt but not where or how badly? What’s it like to be a child who finds a discarded toy and picks up what turns out to be a landmine? What’s it like to be giving birth at home, and see blood pooling between your legs, and look up at the ashen faces of a birth attendant, a midwife, a spouse? What’s it like to feel the earth tremble and see the roof and walls of your home or school fall toward you? More to the point, in terms of survival: What happens next? It depends. Not just on the severity of the injury, but on who and where you are. Death in childbirth, once the leading killer of young women across the world, is now registered almost exclusively among women living in extreme poverty, many of them in rural areas. Trauma is now the leading cause of death for children and young adults in much of the world. Who lives and who dies depends on what sort of health care system is available. And who recovers, if recovery is possible, depends on the way emergency care and hospitals are financed.
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- Health Care
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