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Healthcare tech is hot for venture capitalists
From wearables like wristbands that keep track of your physical activity to wireless weighing machines that help you track your weight fluctuations, technology is getting into healthcare with an eye firmly on the consumer.
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- Health Care, Investing
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3 Myths That Block Access to the Poor
Every year The Gates Foundation releases an annual letter, this is 2014 where Bill Gates states "By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world."
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- Education, Health Care
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- vaccines
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Why Ending Malaria May Be More About Backhoes Than Bed Nets
Wiping out malaria is still a top goal for many leaders in global health.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, infrastructure
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Indian cos among emerging world’s vaccine heroes: Bill Gates
According to Gates, Serum Institute produces a higher volume of vaccines than any other company in the world
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- manufacturing, vaccines
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Health program launched by Indian government to cover urban areas with over 50,000 population
A flagship programme of the UPA government at the Centre, it is a counterpart of the National Rural Health Mission
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- governance
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How vaccines helped India defeat polio while Pakistan become a reservoir for the virus
The diverging fortunes of India and Pakistan in recent years show what an effective vaccination push can do to tackle disease.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- governance, vaccines
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‘Nation’s economic situation influences health of people’
Academique, an inter-disciplinary group in the DST Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) held a discussion on 'Social determinants of health' in the 275th session on Sunday.
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- Health Care
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Why city life is unhealthy
The rapid increase in the number of urban inhabitants will be among the most important global health issues of the 21st century.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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