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Slow Ideas
Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t?
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3D imaging could cut health care costs
Upstate company Qmetrics has developed technology that can take medical images like MRIs and turn them into a three-dimensional image or model.
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- Health Care
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Dirty Business
Singaporean Jack Sim wants nobody to be embarrassed by toilets as he seeks to clean up sanitation throughout the developing world.
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- South Asia
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Corporations and the fight against hunger: why CSR won’t do
There is an opportunity for the private sector to lead in tackling chronic malnutrition, but seeing it as corporate social responsibility or charity is damaging.
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Under the weather? Climate change effect on public health getting new emphasis
Global warming often seems distant and abstract, especially things like shrinking sea ice. But a turbulent climate also poses lots of relatable risks to human health, from allergies and asthma to algae blooms and animal-borne diseases. And according to George Luber, chief of climate research at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, these are the risks that need public attention - even if it means less publicity for polar bears.
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Celebrate royal baby, but remember childbirth is still a killer
As the world celebrates the long-awaited addition to the British royal family, it is worth taking some time to reflect on the women around the world for whom childbirth is not such a joyous, beautiful and celebrated occasion.
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African Governments Still Underfunding Health
Twelve years after African governments pledged in the Abuja Declaration to allocate at least 15 percent of their annual budgets to healthcare by 2015, just six countries have met this goal.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance
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Report Finds Gradual Fall in Female Genital Cutting in Africa
A comprehensive new assessment of the ancient practice of female genital cutting has found a gradual but significant decline in many countries, even in some where it remains deeply entrenched.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa