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Sterilization Trumps Disposable: Pre-packaged instruments place ‘huge burden’ on remote facilities
Considering the fact that the basic principles behind sterilization were understood in the 19th century, we are long overdue for a technological revolution that will make it available everywhere, starting with portable, power-free sterilization. Safe basic surgery is not a luxury, it is care that virtually every human being will need at some point in their lives.
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Mobile Device Uses the Net to Tackle Deafness
About 3-million people in SA suffer from hearing loss. Every year, about 4,000 people become deaf due to antiretroviral and tuberculosis treatment. Early detection through screening tests could halve this number.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Philips launches innovative ultrasound to boost healthcare access for South African mothers
Royal Philips has launched a new ultra-mobile ultrasound system VISIQ to the South African market. The size of a tablet, the VISIQ is the first ultra-mobile system from Philips.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This High-Tech Vision Test Could Make the World See 20/20
While providing charity eye care in Haiti, Joel Kassalow noticed that a complex eye-testing machine was essential, unwieldy and too costly to buy in multiples — and it became a bottleneck in giving people necessary care. So he offered an innovation he’d created at his company, Smart Vision Labs: a version of the same machine at one-fiftieth the weight and one-hundredth the cost.
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How to Turn Big Health Data Into Big Health Action
Mobile technology has revolutionized data-collection tools for health workers, but unless that data creates meaningful change, the “data revolution” will struggle to revolutionize global health systems for patients and providers.
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How CAMTech India Is Addressing Pressing Healthcare Issues Through Innovation By Integrating Technology and Healthcare
According to the World Health Organisation’s 2014 report, nearly 800 women die every day due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth.
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5 African e-health startups to watch
Africa’s basic infrastructural challenges – such as poor transport links, and the limited number of medical professionals and clinics – have long hindered the health sector. However, across the continent, Africa’s innovators are looking to leverage technology to ensure quality medical care is universally accessible.
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NexThought Monday – ‘The Neglected Stepchild of Global Health’: About 5 billion people have no access to basic surgical care
Considering the fact that approximately 5 billion people have no access to basic surgical care, now is the time to make surgery a global health priority, say Dr. James Bernstein and Huma Malik of Eniware. They describe ways this care can be delivered, even in low-resource settings that lack the fundamental infrastructure that surgery usually requires.
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- Education, Health Care
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