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Google buys Seattle health monitoring startup Senosis, bolstering digital health push
Patel, who founded Senosis Health with four other clinicians, researchers and tech transfer experts from the University of Washington, won a MacArthur genius grant in 2011 and his past innovations have ranged from energy meters to air quality sensors.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- North America
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Microsoft has found an inexpensive way to save lives in India
Microsoft Research India works on projects in areas of machine learning, natural language processing and it explores creating technology for emerging markets. One of the projects, 99DOTS, has looked at low-cost ways to ensure tuberculosis patients regularly take their medication
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Cheap 3D printed prosthetics could be game changer for Nepal
Ram's new hand was manufactured on a 3D printer in Nepal's capital for just $30, an innovation that could be a game changer for many in the impoverished Himalayan country.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Microsoft is using AI to track down health problems in India
Redmond is teaming up with the state of Telangana in India where the company will be using its artificial intelligence technology to provide healthcare for children with eye problems.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Malaria test adapted to predict treatment side-effects
While most patients who receive the drug of choice (artemisinin artesunate) against malaria recuperate, a small number (less than 5 per cent) develop a serious and often fatal anaemia called post-artesunate delayed haemolysis (PADH) within a month of treatment.
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- Health Care
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Fear of a Jobless Planet: Can Entrepreneurship Counter the Coming AI Employment Crisis?
Imagine a future where robots are capable of doing just about everything under the sun, rendering countless professions across practically every industry obsolete. The first part of that dystopian vision has already come to pass. The second part hasn't, but could well be coming. What might be the solution? According to what we learned in July – entrepreneurship month at NB – it might fall on small businesses to answer the challenge.
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- Entrepreneurship, NextBillion Originals, Technology
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What Common Kitchen Ingredient Can Help Detect Cervical Cancer?
Each year, cervical cancer kills 270,000 women and a third of these deaths occur in just one country: India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- cancer, healthcare technology, India, Women
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As warming brings more malaria, Kenya moves treatment closer to home
With just a medical kit and a mobile phone, health volunteers diagnose villagers with malaria in their own homes.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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