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Fighting Deadly Disease, With Grains of Rice
TOKYO — Yoshikazu Yuki and other researchers at the University of Tokyo are bioengineering rice in a bid to turn it into an easy and low-cost storage and delivery medium for drugs to combat common infectious and contagious illnesses.
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OPINION: Exploring the Millennium Villages Project: has it improved lives in Africa?
Two leading global philanthropists, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Bill Gates, debate the impact and progress of the Millennium Villages Project, which aims to improve lives in 20 African countries over the course of 10 years.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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The Science of Designing Food for the World’s Poor
Enlisting cartoon characters and computer software in the fight against malnutrition
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- Health Care
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- nutrition
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‘Millions denied end-of-life drugs’
Lack of access to pain relief for dying patients is a "public health emergency", say experts.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Promising malaria vaccine looks to employ robots to mass produce its product
Imagine that, in the face of substantial technical odds, you developed a vaccine for malaria that, in early trials, was 100 percent effective. But then, due to political wrangling over the budget, you couldn’t get the funding you needed to produce enough of the vaccine to market it. What would you do?
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- Health Care
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Researchers develop patch to overcome needle phobia
AN estimated one in ten people go faint at the thought of an injection. But there may be a cure to this phobia in the form of a painless patch.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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CITADEL takes a look at 3S, the social enterprise that manufactures, cleans and services portable toilets for the urban poor
In a globalized nation where connectivity is the norm and gadgets rule, the most basic toilet facilities are not available to a staggeringly huge number of people. This picture has been changing enormously as people have been availing assistance for an improved quality of life.
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Teaching People Not Just to Fish, But to Build Businesses Too
As USAID’s annual letter this year notes, in development it is no longer enough to teach a farmer to grow a new crop—or in this case, to fish. Our work isn’t done until we help a farmer learn to run a successful business too. This is precisely what is happening in Bangladesh.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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