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Vaccine nanoparticles offer shake-and-bake field delivery
To be able to make vaccines on site simply and effectively would greatly benefit remote areas that are often hampered by both distance from the source of vaccines and the difficulty of refrigeration.
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- Health Care
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The Best of 2013: Bridging the Gap with Early Capital for BoP Models: An impact evaluation of VisionSpring in El Salvador
It’s natural for impact investors to focus on companies with measurable social impact and financial returns. But they often overlook models with impact potential that are still in their pre-commercial phase. This lack of early stage capital can limit the development of promising businesses, leading to missed opportunities for the poor and for investors. That’s why the IDB’s Opportunities for the Majority initiative offers grants to pre-commercial pilots like VisionSpring’s eye care model in El Salvador.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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High-tech inventions meet global-health needs in cool ways
Innovators from Washington state blend high-tech research and pragmatic application to create cool, surprising and even downright weird global-health inventions.
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- Health Care
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Indigenous thalassemia diagnostic kit launched in India
India on Tuesday launched a low-cost, indigenously-manufactured Thalassemia and Sickle Cell diagnostic kit that will simplify the identification of 7 common beta-thalassemia mutations and two common abnormal haemoglobins, common in India.
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- Health Care
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GSK bets on emerging markets with $1 billion plan to raise stake in India unit
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) has decided to spend roughly $1 billion to raise its stake in its Indian pharmaceutical unit, betting on rising demand in emerging markets as sales in developed economies slow due to a wave of patent expirations.
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- Health Care
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Reversing ‘Diabesity’: Jana Care using new weapons to tackle diabetes and obesity
A team of engineers piggybacks on the recent spread of mobile phones and the Internet in India to educate patients as well as to change their unhealthy behaviors in a way they hope is scalable and cost-effective.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Healthcare innovations can revolutionise maternal and infant health
Despite the amazing advances made by our nation since independence, one area where we continue to be woefully inadequate is basic health parameters, particularly maternal and infant health.
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- Health Care
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All Health Care Is Local in Uganda
The late Tip O'Neill, former speaker of the U.S. House, coined the phrase "all politics is local," by which he meant that politicians become successful by addressing the everyday concerns of the voters who elected them to office
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa