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Promising Practices: CHMI highlights 71 pro-poor innovations improving health care around the world
The Center for Health Market Innovations has released its annual report, "Highlights: Findings From 2014," which identifies health care programs and policies, documents and analyzes promising practices, and spotlights programs with potential for scale up and adaptation within and across borders.
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4 Innovations On mHealth and POC Devices
There has been much talk about innovations in mobile health technologies among the international aid community in recent years. But now there’s a new kid on the block.
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India Needs Cutting-Edge Technology to Become Global Healthcare Destination
Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, Founder, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group, speaks about NCDs, healthcare challenges and solutions in a conversation with Shivani Arora.
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Three Questions with David Aylward, Senior Advisor on Global Health and Technology at Ashoka
Food Tank, in partnership with The George Washington University, is hosting the 1st Annual Food Tank Summit in Washington D.C. on January 21-22, 2015.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Spending on Medical Research Falls in U.S. While Growing Globally
Spending on medical research is waning in the United States, and this trend could have dire consequences for patients, physicians and the health care industry as a whole, a new analysis reveals.
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- Education, Health Care
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Health Minister JP Nadda for Innovation of Cheaper New Drugs
Union Health Minister JP Nadda today underlined the need for innovation of new drugs at low cost which are affordable to the poorest, even as he sought to strike a balance between the commercial and medical spendings.
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Weavers Turn Silk Into Diabetes Test Strips
It's a new way to do silk screening, that's for sure. Bangalore-based Achira Labs has figured out a way to hand weave diabetes test strips from silk. That sounds pretty luxurious compared to the standard materials of plastic or paper. But silk turns out to have several advantages in a country like India, where weavers who can work a handloom are abundant and the material is readily available and inexpensive.
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The Cloud-Based Tool Improving Healthcare Across the Developing World
Part of a series profiling the finalists in Unilever’s Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards, Daniel Yu explains how his social enterprise, Reliefwatch helps track and deliver essential supplies.
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- Health Care, Technology
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