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Sisu Global Heath wins $100,000 investment from AOL co-founder Steve Case
A Baltimore startup that developed a surgical tool to recycle the blood of a patient suffering from internal bleeding landed a $100,000 investment Monday from AOL co-founder Steve Case, winning a "live pitch" competition among eight Baltimore companies.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Johns Hopkins team designed an Ebola suit so good, it’s going on the market
Youseph Yazdi was surprised by the number of people who jumped in to help design better protective gear for people helping Ebola victims – everyone from freshmen to robotics experts to a wedding-dress maker. But he was even more surprised when the solutions the team came up with at the hackathon at Johns Hopkins University attracted the notice of leading producers of protective clothing. A version of the suit they designed will be manufactured by DuPont and available early next year, the university announced Monday.
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Viewpoint: Racing to Save Lives
Every day in India, people are going blind, not getting tumours detected, living with treatable chronic pain, not developing their brain cells, losing limbs, and dying while the solutions are stuck in the labs of some of India’s brightest inventors. These challenges are not unique to India, but the magnitude of potential lives to improve or save is. Innovation needs to accelerate, and the pathway from labs to patients needs to be shorter and easier.
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Can This New Trend Change the Way We Access Healthcare?
A recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that nearly 100 million people are “pushed into poverty” trying to access basic health care services. The crisis has forced 80 countries to ask the WHO for technical assistance to shift toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Since governments are struggling to provide basic health services, and private health care providers remain too expensive to access, citizens in the developing world are caught in a financial trap. However, a new movement in health care innovation is now challenging the status quo.
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With $37.5 M Series B Funding, Healthcare Startup Portea Plans Massive Hiring and Acquisitions
Entrepreneurs rarely announce funding on a Sunday. But today is an exception. Home focused healthcare platform Portea announced that it has raised $37.5 million Series B round led by existing investor – Accel and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group; Qualcomm Ventures, and Ventureast.
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A Chemist’s Novel Idea: Teri Dankovich invents a type of paper that filters water, then incorporates it into a ‘Drinkable Book’
Teri Dankovich invented a paper that purifies drinking water, and she's incorporated that paper into a book which includes information on why and how water should be filtered. In this Q&A interview, she talks about how her research project evolved, how the paper works, what the business prospects are and how it might some day save millions of lives.
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Smartphone Malaria Tech Makes Debut
The answer to Africa’s malaria challenge could fit in a pocket.
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Heart Surgeon Brings High-Tech Health Care to the World’s Poor
Indian philanthropist and cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty is the Chairman of Narayana Health in Bangalore. Born in a small village, Shetty went to school in Bangalore before studying in the UK. After returning to India in 1989, Mother Teresa had a heart attack, and Dr. Shetty was called to operate on her. From then on, he served as her personal physician.
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