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Smartphone Camera Turned Microscope Could Revolutionize Healthcare in Africa
A device that can turn your smartphone camera into a microscope may change the health landscape of Africa where shortage of diagnostic infrastructure has jeopardized public health.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Drone Pilots, AI, Tweets and Texts Speed Up Relief Efforts in Nepal
They are known as digital humanitarians: the thousands of tech-savvy volunteers from around the world who are both physically and virtually converging on the crisis in Nepal and digging through mountains of data to help humanitarian agencies direct their aid.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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‘Leg Bank’ Hope for Changing Amputees’ Lives
A 'leg bank' - providing life-changing prostheses to low-income people who have lost limbs - is being developed by a team including University of Strathclyde researchers.
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- Health Care
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Redefining Innovation: Four things I learned at PATH
An associate professor at Stanford spent two years as the global program leader of PATH’s Technology Solutions Program, and says the experience helped redefine what innovation means to him.
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- Health Care
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Pocket-Sized Fingerprint Scanner Could Solve Healthcare Bottleneck
British postgraduate students have devised a pocket-sized fingerprint scanner designed to help patients in the developing world get improved access to healthcare.
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- Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Why You Should Root for a Robot to Take Your Doctor’s Job
You don’t have to look far to find concerns about how technology will steal our jobs. It’s been widely noticed that automation is making machines more powerful and shortening the list of current jobs that only a human can do.
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- Health Care, Technology
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NCDs Threatening Health Insurance: Innovations, partnerships offer ways to mitigate the impact
Non-communicable diseases have become the leading cause of death and disability worldwide?, carrying immense implications for insurance programs. However, ?there are opportunities? for public and private insurers to create and expand disease detection and management systems to mitigate the incidence and effect of NCDs.
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New App for Managing HIV Treatment Failure
A health informatics specialist in Rwanda has developed a computer-based application to help clinicians reduce medical errors in managing HIV treatment failure.
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- Health Care, Technology
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