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Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.
Devi Shetty is obsessed with making heart surgery affordable for millions of Indians. On his office desk are photographs of two of his heroes: Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.
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- South Asia
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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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Slow Ideas
Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t?
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Diagnostics by Phone: uChek’s smartphone solution provides urinalysis everywhere
In rural areas at the BoP, patients often have to trek a long way to their nearest health center and diagnostics lab. So they only visit the doctor if they’re really sick, and rarely go for lower-priority services like screenings and preventive care. That’s why Biosense Technologies has developed uChek, a diagnostic app that converts a smartphone into a lab urinanalyzer that can screen for about 25 medical conditions.
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This Bill Gates-Backed Super-Thermos Saves Lives With Cold Vaccines
Life saving medicine doesn’t like hot temperatures, which makes it hard to get it to the remote villages where it’s often most needed. The amazing new Passive Vaccine Storage Device keeps health workers informed about its movements and its cargo, and keeps that cargo totally cool for 30 days.
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One man’s innovation turns Ugandan hospitals hi-tech
Have you ever wanted to know how many doctor visits you make per year or what your annual expenditure on health care is?
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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mHealth for Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries
Non communicable diseases (heart diseases, strokes, cancers, diabetes, and chronic lung disease) cause an estimated 36 million deaths every year, including 9 million people dying prematurely before the age of 60.
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Understanding the Protective Side of Dengue Virus
Infection with one strain of the dengue virus gives people protection against the other three strains for about two years, a new biostatistics study has found.
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