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IISC Innovation All Set To Make Diabetic Healthcare Afforable
While lifestyle changes and regular monitoring of blood glucose levels could reduce life-threatening complications arising from diabetes, glucometer to detect blood-glucose levels are currently expensive and unaffordable for many. Now scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, have developed a low-cost glucometer kit to check blood-glucose levels.
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Patient views highlight potential for Peek smartphone suite to transform eye health
An estimated 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired, of whom 39 million are blind. Up to 80% of blindness and visual impairment is avoidable but a lack of trained specialists and the high cost of buying and transporting the right equipment is a major challenge. This is especially true in rural areas and in the low-income nations of Africa and Asia that share the largest proportion of the burden.
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Scientists announce important Zika milestone: First vaccine ready for human trials
Pennsylvania vaccine maker Inovio Pharmaceuticals and South Korea’s GeneOne Life Sciences said Monday that they had received approval from U.S. regulators to start testing a DNA vaccine, known as GLS-5700, on humans.
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‘Disease outbreak guarantees’—A proposed mechanism for enhancing public health capacity
The possible path to offering disease outbreak guarantees is an idea being posed by two global health researchers who suggest that a mechanism for establishing such an instrument could be tied to public health investments.
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Cameroonian inventor wins prize for handheld tablet bringing medicine to rural areas
Cardio Pad enables heart patients in remote areas to access healthcare without journeying to the cities where most heart specialists work.
Zang -- who won gold at the Africa Prize for the invention -- explains that the tablet comes with "four electrodes, which are attached to the patient's chest to determine whether their heart is functioning normally".- Categories
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Heart monitoring device wins top African prize
A portable heart diagnostic invention has won its developer — Cameroonian Arthur Zang — Africa prize for engineering innovation.
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India’s Practo Plans to Take Digital Health-Care Success Abroad
Practo Technologies Private Ltd.’s audacious goal of bringing order to India’s chaotic health-care system is starting to bear fruit, helping to transform it into the country’s biggest online medical network. Now the startup is planning to go global.
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Viewpoint: The Promise of Digital Health in LMICs
Having started my career as an emergency physician in countries across Africa — from Angola and Mozambique, to the Sudan and the Caucasus — I was regularly faced with long and often dangerous journeys to reach my patients. I would fly in by plane and then travel on my bike, crossing rivers — it was the only way they could receive the treatment and medical care they needed. Often I couldn’t stay for long, or sometimes I came too late.
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