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Global leaders sign comprehensive charter to tackle stunting in children
The fight against stunting - the world's most urgent nutritional challenge - got a big boost through a global agreement signed by world leaders in London on Saturday.
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New Vaccine Drives Africa Meningitis Cases to Lowest in Decade
Case numbers in Africa's meningitis season this year were the lowest in 10 years thanks to a cheap new vaccine designed to treat a type of the disease common in the so-called meningitis belt, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Timeline: Smartphone-enabled health devices
Mobile health has come a long way since the start of 2009 when Apple demonstrated on-stage at its World Wide Developer Conference how blood pressure monitors and blood glucose meters could connect to the iPhone 3G via cables or Bluetooth. MobiHealth News has tracked smartphone-enabled health and fitness devices over the course of the past five years.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Micro Health Insurance: Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
Is there a future for micro health insurance? Is it destined to go by the wayside as governments take on an increasingly larger share of the burden of providing coverage to their populations? Should it?
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Global Surgery: Myths and Realities
What the world really needs is consistent, quality surgical services in developing countries. In communities around the world, lack of training and supplies mean there is little to no surgical treatment available for injuries, maternal complications, cancer, congenital malformations, and emergencies like appendicitis
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Renewed fight against fake drugs in Africa takes off
Worried by the dearth of experts and available tools to combat falsified, substandard and counterfeit medicines in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria, the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has launched the Center for Pharmaceutical Advancement and Training (CePAT) in Accra, Ghana.
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- Health Care
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How AIDS Invented Global Health
Over the past half-century, historians have used episodes of epidemic disease to investigate scientific, social, and cultural change.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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China’s Healthcare Choice: Innovation or Access?
China today faces a dilemma in healthcare development between the present and the future. A fundamental choice will need to be made between financial incentives for future medical innovation or price controls that broaden present access to care
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific