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‘We Aim to Bring Affordable and Convenient Healthcare for Every Individual in India’
After the successful launch of a free pick and drop service to all hospitals, diagnostics and pathology labs in Delhi, UBER and OXXY expanded it to Mumbai on World Health Day, with the additional benefit of online. While Uber provides the free ride, OXXY allows customers to compare prices of tests/ surgeries/ treatment as well as avail of discounts at medical centres. Pankaj Gupta, Founder, OXXY reveals company’s plans to Usha Sharma.
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What’s Tripping Healthcare in India and How Startups Are Tackling It
Today, in India, banks send alerts on financial risks instantaneously, ecommerce companies use tech tools to coax users to buy, and social networking sites are creating personality profiles of its users. However, hospitals still do not have the technology to predict and alert us about critical health risks. Most of them don’t even have digital systems to capture medical data to create a health history.
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Scientists Developing Latex Replacement That Self-Lubricates, Delivers Viagra and Feels Better Than Nothing At All
A group of scientists in Australia is developing a series of condoms which it claims could feel even better than wearing nothing at all.
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Vaccination Reminder Band Tipped to Boost Global Child Inoculation Rates
Ankle band that changes colour to remind parents when vaccines are due comes through trials in Pakistan.
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These Printable Tests for HIV And E.Coli Will Bring Diagnosis Anywhere in the World
Cheap, simple diagnostic kits have the potential to revolutionize health care in the developing world. If we can put non-technical tests in the hands of normal people, we can test for diseases more efficiently without building out formal clinic networks. That should help get treatments to people in a more timely way.
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Budget Cuts and Vaccine Fears Threaten Health Progress
Cuts to global health research budgets and people’s wariness of vaccines could hamper efforts to improve health around the world, two separate reports have warned in the run-up to World Health Day, which is marked today.
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Ali Health Pens Tie-Up for Online Health Testing Platform
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's healthcare subsidiary will tie-up with Zhejiang DiAn Diagnostics Co Ltd to help develop an online hospital platform, the diagnostics firm said in a filing late on Monday.
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East Africa: Rwanda to Champion E-Health in EAC
Rwanda was yesterday selected to be East Africa's centre of excellence in e-health and biomedical engineering as well as health vaccines and immunisation logistics.
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