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Rural Indian Villages Are About to Get Lifesaving Treatment Through an App
Lifesaving care for people in rural India will soon come through an app.
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- South Asia
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Lack of Doctors in East Africa Spells Opportunity for Investors
In this monthly column called “The Indicator”, we take a economic or financial statistic from East Africa and break it down into bite-sized nuggets of knowledge for investors.
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Pokemon Go: Health Gains of Exergames
Augmented reality game Pokemon Go, which took the world by storm, seems to have found an unlikely supporter in the medical fraternity. Banned by parents for the longest time, games like Pokemon Go, played on the smartphone, could actually be beneficial as it encourages a physical activity regimen combined with fun, a study shared exclusively with TOI says.
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Henry Ford Health System to help create new specialty hospital in India
Henry Ford Health System has signed a contract with Pearl Human Care Private Limited, an India-based company, to provide medical technology and related medical services to a planned 400-bed hospital in Tamil Nadu.
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Sandoz Seeks Mobile-Enabled Health Access Solutions
Sandoz has kicked off a global competition to find new mobile health ideas for improving access to healthcare.
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- Technology
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How This App Tracks Women’s Health Woes; in India & Internationally
Technology has enabled disruptive ideas to invade our day-to-day life. Today we are able to order a cab/pizza/plumber/groceries by just swiping our mobiles today. Despite the abundance of startups that exist, government and VC networks have constantly stressed on the need for disruptive ideas that cater into the basic needs of sanitation, healthcare, education and water management.
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Does this 25 year-old hold the key to winning the war against superbugs?
Not many 25-year-olds can claim to get up at 4 am and work weekends to save the world from an impending Armageddon that could cost tens of millions of lives. But for the past three years, Shu Lam, a Malaysian PhD student at the University of Melbourne, has confined herself to a scientific laboratory to figure out how to kill superbugs that can no longer be treated with antibiotics.
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Sanofi gets $43 million U.S. funding to spur Zika vaccine development
Sanofi SA said on Monday the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) approved $43.18 million in funding to accelerate the development of a Zika vaccine, as efforts to prevent the infection gather momentum.
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- Health Care
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