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Why Profits, Entrepreneurship, And Social Good Are Not Incompatible
Why should poor people receive the most obsolete technologies—when their lives can be impacted the most by advances in technology? Should my education and talent be used to make rich and powerful corporations even more so—or to help those in need? These are questions that Alfredo Zolezzi agonized over after achieving early success as a scientist and entrepreneur.
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Telemedicine Improves Patient Outcomes: Study
Telemedicine technology is a hot commodity these days -- but is it actually effective in improving patient outcomes? Researchers at UC Davis Children's Hospital say it is.Researchers found telemedicine consults significantly improved outcomes for patients treated in rural pediatric emergency departments that lack pediatric specialists.
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Uganda: Doctors Get Offers They Can’t Resist
Every two days, at least one doctor heads to the airport of a poor African country and flies off to work in Europe or America. Up to 2000 doctors have left in the last 10 years; leaving Africa with the highest disease burden in the world and the lowest number of health workers.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Clean Toilets Can Help Improve the Health of Undernourished Children in India
Thirty-eight percent of India’s children are stunted, according to a recent report by The Lancet on malnutrition. That means that nearly 62 million children in India will not reach their full physical or mental potential.Reducing that number – and we must if India is to reach its fullest potential – is a big effort, one that’s been under way for some time.
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- South Asia
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The low cost technology saving premature babies’ lives
Every year more than 20 million babies are born prematurely or with low birth weight - and an estimated 450 of them die each hour.Yet most of these deaths could be avoided by simply keeping them warm.
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Team McGill, Aspire Foods
As MBA students, we became acutely aware right at the start: the teaching is geared toward a career as an investment banker, a consultant, or a marketing expert.
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Kenyans transferred US$18.1 billion using mobile money in 2012
Mobile money transfer services continue to grow in Kenya, with transactions growing by 32.8 per cent to KSh1.538 trillion (US$18.1 billion) from KSh1.169 trillion (US$13.75 billion) in 2011.
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Golden Rice: Lifesaver?
One bright morning this month, 400 protesters smashed down the high fences surrounding a field in the Bicol region of the Philippines and uprooted the genetically modified rice plants growing inside.Had the plants survived long enough to flower, they would have betrayed a distinctly yellow tint in the otherwise white part of the grain. That is because the rice is endowed with a gene from corn and another from a bacterium, making it the only variety in existence to produce beta carotene, the source of vitamin A. Its developers call it “Golden Rice.”
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