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Oxxy Moves to Launch World’s Largest Transparent, Affordable Hospital Chain
Spending on healthcare is a key component of a household's monthly budget. Any unforeseen illness that requires expert consultation or hospitalization or undergo a medical procedure burdens the pocket.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Tuberculosis Video Game Battles World’s Oldest Disease
A new video game from Abertay University students and University of St Andrews scientists is taking on humanity’s oldest disease, tuberculosis.
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- Health Care
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It Pays to Pay Your Own Way: Three reasons self-funding helps lead to a successful business
Self-funding comes with challenges. When your business is strapped for cash, things go slower; you don’t have money to take care of unforeseen problems; it's hard to hire people. But the co-founder of SmartPrac says those things can be overcome and, at the end of the day, money's not the most important part of successful entrepreneurship.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Turn on your sensors, development is about to go ‘wearable’
They range from the simple to the astounding, the familiar to the science fictional. Sensors are all around us, capturing information and turning it into something else: an electrical signal, the basis for a decision, a diagnosis, a warning.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Fast paper test detects three diseases at once
A quick, paper-based blood test which can simultaneously detect the Ebola, dengue and yellow fever viruses has shown promising results in tests, say researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
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Government encouraging foreign investment in Vietnam healthcare
Vietnam’s healthcare market expenditure is expected to grow from $12.90 billion in 2014 to $27.48 billion in 2020 or a compound annual growth rate of 13.4 percent, according to research analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.
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Researchers from India and China empowered to provide CVD care through Smart Mobile App
In a first dual-country trail, researchers from India and China have together discovered cost-effective ways to improve the quality of primary care and clinical outcomes in resource-limited settings through smart mobile application which could have major benefits for the general population who suffer known cardiovascular diseases.
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- Education, Health Care
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No Cardiac Clinic? No Problem: Handheld electrocardiogram monitor designed to provide distant, affordable heart care
Makers of Cardiotrack, a handheld ECG monitor, say it's easy to use, provides clinical grade output and performs predictive diagnosis to start intervention immediately, thus reducing the need for invasive intervention. Best of all, they say, is that it saves cardiologists’ time.
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- Health Care, Technology
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