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India Bats for Health Research Alliance Among NAM Nations
Batting for greater collaboration in health research among non-aligned group of countries, India today said the member nations should use their "collective bargaining" power for making new medicines and medical technologies available to all at affordable costs.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Forget The Fitbit: Can Wearables Be Designed For The Developing World?
UNICEF, the design firm Frog, and the global mobile processor company ARM are teaming up to find ways that sensor and wearable tech can benefit the world's poorest populations.
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- Health Care, Technology
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D-Rev CEO: We Build Medical Devices for People who Live on Less than $4 a Day
Most medical equipment companies don’t regularly top “most innovative” lists. But D-Rev isn’t your typical medical device maker. The San Francisco-based non-profit wants to help the world’s poorest individuals, who subsist on less than a few dollars per day. Its products include an $80 prosthetic knee and a phototherapy device to treat infants with jaundice.
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- Health Care
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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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