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Inside the Technology That Can Turn Your Smartphone into a Personal Doctor
The fantastic tricorder device that “Bones” used to scan aliens on “Star Trek” is nearly at hand—in your cellphone.
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iKure – Paving the Way to Accessible and Affordable Healthcare through Software Development
iKure - a Kolkata-based social enterprise dedicated to bringing affordable health care to India’s poorest populations - has created these spot camps as an integral part of their inventive model for a network of health clinics in India’s rural areas. In addition to providing access to doctors and medicine prescriptions, they provide the necessary outreach to tell villagers about where and when the clinics are and how they can access medical consultations and medicine.
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Filling In the Gaps: Ethiopian entrepreneur launches phone-based medical consultation service
Dr. Yohans Emiru Wodaje Wodaje wanted to launch a website that would provide information on medical topics in different local languages in Ethiopia. Recognizing that more people had access to mobile phones than the Internet, Wodaje decided to switch lines to a phone-based medical consultation service.
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UNICEF and Global Health Partners Open Market Entry for Innovative HIV Point of Care Diagnostics
he tender is part of a UNICEF and Clinton Health Access Initiative project, funded by UNITAID, to accelerate access to high quality POC HIV diagnostic equipment in seven African countries that carry one third of the world’s HIV burden.
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7 Incredible Health Tech Innovations Changing the Way South Africans Live
Nowhere is the need for more efficient, more accessible and generally more powerful tools as great as it is in Africa.
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Weekly Roundup – 4/19/2014: There’s never been a better time for quantum leaps in global health
The cell phone business skipped several evolutionary steps in the developing world. Who’s to say global health care can’t follow suit?
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DesignMedix Awarded $3 Million to Develop Low-Cost, Safe Malaria Drug
DesignMedix, Inc., a biotech startup with ties to Portland State University, received a grant for almost $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue development and manufacture of a new anti-malarial drug.
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‘Lean So Far Into It That You’re At Risk’: … and 20 other quotable quotes from the Global Health & Innovation Conference
The Global Health & Innovation Conference, held over two days on the Yale University campus, provides an opportunity for some of the most innovative thinkers in health care around the world to exchange ideas.
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- Environment, Health Care
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