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Weekly Roundup – 4/19/2014: There’s never been a better time for quantum leaps in global health
The cell phone business skipped several evolutionary steps in the developing world. Who’s to say global health care can’t follow suit?
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- Education, Health Care, Technology, Telecommunications
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DesignMedix Awarded $3 Million to Develop Low-Cost, Safe Malaria Drug
DesignMedix, Inc., a biotech startup with ties to Portland State University, received a grant for almost $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue development and manufacture of a new anti-malarial drug.
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- Health Care
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‘Lean So Far Into It That You’re At Risk’: … and 20 other quotable quotes from the Global Health & Innovation Conference
The Global Health & Innovation Conference, held over two days on the Yale University campus, provides an opportunity for some of the most innovative thinkers in health care around the world to exchange ideas.
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- Environment, Health Care
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African Health-Technology Deals on the Rise
Africa's rising middle class may see a rise in Private Equity and Venture Capital investments in the continent's healthcare industry
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Musa, Swiss Partner to Help African SMEs in Healthcare
Private equity company Musa Capital is the partner in an investment fund that plans to develop small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) providing health services to the poor in various African countries.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Innovative’ Sughavazhvu healthcare gaining popularity in rural India
A healthcare system for rural India, dubbed Sughavazhvu, which stands for 'happy life' in Tamil, is gaining popularity thanks to it's use of innovative techniques for providing accessible and appropriate primary healthcare.
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- Health Care
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Santa Fe company delivers vaccines to ‘last mile’
A couple of years ago, the head of a management company specializing in high-performance processes and materials met the founder of a nonprofit organization that supports spiritual and medical programs among the Mayan communities of Chiapas in southern Mexico. Ohki S. Forest of Canadian Mohawk descent, who visits Santa Fe periodically, was giving a talk at a conference hosted by the Bioneers, a Santa Fe nonprofit that often serves as a catalyst among social, technological and visionary entrepreneurs.
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- Health Care
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Health technology will make our medicine cooler than Star Trek’s soon
Health technology is advancing so rapidly that within a decade the small handheld medical reader used by Dr. Leonard McCoy in Star Trek — the tricorder — will look primitive.
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- Health Care
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