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Indian Health Tech Startup Phable Raises $12 Million to Serve Patients With Chronic Conditions
Hundreds of millions of people in India suffer from chronic diseases. One of the biggest challenges they face is the volume of transactions they have to manage each day. There are appointments with doctors and labs for tests, purchasing of medicines, medical devices and insurance, and keeping a log of their test results.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Machine Learning Helps Battle Life-Threatening Diseases. Could It End World Hunger, Too?
A group of MIT researchers reported that machine learning may be useful in diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease and asymptomatic COVID-19 infections, from the sounds that subjects make by speaking or coughing, respectively. Machine learning is also being used to make plant-based “milk” and other foods.
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- Technology
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Press Release: Ilara Health Raises $3.75 Million Series A Led by TLcom to Provide Life-Saving Diagnostics Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Ilara Health, an innovative healthtech start-up increasing essential and affordable access to life-saving diagnostics in Africa, has raised $3.75 million in Series A funding led by TLcom Capital with participation from DOB Equity, Global Ventures and Chandaria Capital.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Covid-19: The World Needs To Back India and South Africa’s Call To Remove Intellectual Property Hurdles
On 2 October, India and South Africa sent a joint communication to the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Council of the World Trade Organisation, the multilateral institution formed to promote free trade between countries. The communication asked the body to recommend a waiver of major intellectual-property provisions of the TRIPS agreement for technologies to prevent, contain and treat COVID-19.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Solar Fridges and Powdered Vaccines: How To Get a COVID-19 Vaccine To the Developing World
UNICEF is building a global network of fridges and cold rooms—the cold chain—to make sure a vaccine stays effective as it’s transported to rural communities off the grid.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microsoft, Partners Launch Program To Increase Employability for PWDs in Asia Pacific
Ryan Gersava, a Davao-based medical technologist, experienced first hand what it is like to face discrimination because of a chronic medical condition.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Global COVID-19 Impact on Vaccines & Drugs Market Growth Is Mainly Attributed Due to Growing Number of People Infected With COVID-19 and Rising Funding for Vaccine Development – PMI
Technological advancements in the pharmaceutical sector comprising the development of nucleic acid vaccines that are DNA- and RNA-based, and which allow the human body to produce vaccine antigen. Such initiatives and activities are expected to support market growth to a substantial extent.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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Viewpoint: Why Tech Didn’t Save Us From COVID-19
America's paralysis reveals a deep and fundamental flaw in how the nation thinks about innovation.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care, Technology
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