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Nigeria: Doctors Shelve Planned Strike
Medical Doctors have announced the suspension of its planned nationwide strike which was to take effect today.
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$60 Billion A Year: All It Would Take To Fix The Global Health By 2035
It's a lot, but investing in global health now could produce returns that Wall Street only dreams about.
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South African trauma center launches portable electronic trauma health record application
Electronic health records (EHRs) have become standard practice throughout hospitals in North America, but in countries with fewer resources many front-line clinicians are still collecting data on paper, if they are collecting it at all. But now, surgeons from Vancouver, British Columbia, have developed a way for their peers at a Level I trauma center in South Africa to accurately collect and analyze trauma care data via an iPad app.
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Mahiri Mobile Delivering Lifesaving Healthcare in Rural Ghana
Doctors at hospitals in Tamale and Nsawam, Ghana, are delivering new levels of lifesaving healthcare to remote areas of the country without traveling to see patients in person. Mahiri Mobile Services of Accra has outfitted nurses in rural villages in with wireless tablets that deliver high quality, live medical-grade video(TM) back to the doctors in Tamale and Nsawam for medical advice.
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Government partnerships essential to scale mhealth projects
Want to scale your mHealth solution? Mobile health implementers say the key is to engage with the government early and often so that they will eventually take over the project and bring it to scale.
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Simple, Cheap Health Remedies Cut Child Mortality In Ethiopia
Poor countries are starting to realize something that richer ones sometimes forget: Basic, inexpensive measures can have dramatic impacts on the health of a country. And they can save thousands of lives. Take, for instance, the situation in Ethiopia.
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A third of adults across world now overweight or obese
More than a third of all adults across the world are overweight or obese, a report from a British think-tank has revealed, leading to calls for governments to do more to tackle the growing crisis.
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- Education, Health Care
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Why Ending Malaria May Be More About Backhoes Than Bed Nets
Wiping out malaria is a top goal for many leaders in global health. But when you look at the overall numbers on malaria, eradication almost seems like a pipe dream.
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