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Inside the tech hub movement: In-depth lessons from a global mobile entrepreneurship initiative
“The technology startup scene has grown from zero to hundred in the last three years”, aMobile Monday co-founder in Bangkok recently told us.
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GeneXpert’s benefits still not reaching patients
The Department of Health’s multi-million rand investment in an automated, rapid TB test is being short-changed by slow health systems, said researchers this week.
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GravityLight: Doing More With Less- Designing For The Bottom Of The Pyramid
Globally, 1.3 billion people do not have access to electricity. Millions more are ‘under-electrified’, with unreliable and sporadic supply. Instead they typically rely on kerosene for lighting. Hazardous, expensive and polluting, there is a real need to replace kerosene with a safer, sustainable and affordable light.
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Mounting concern as crippling virus reaches Caribbean,USA
Laurence, a 58-year-old Haitian woman who works in my building, woke up with sharp pain and fever and thought she was dying. She was unable to rise from her bed or hold a glass of water because of the pain in her joints. She could not believe this was a real disease, surmising it must be a voodoo spell that her neighbor put on her.
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Better child TB diagnosis on the horizon
Accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis among children is notoriously difficult because the bacteria causing the disease tend to be detectable in the sputum only of adults, and because the clinical symptoms used to diagnose TB in children are also present in other conditions.
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‘Millions denied end-of-life drugs’
Lack of access to pain relief for dying patients is a "public health emergency", say experts.
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GE Healthcare Is Focusing On Emerging Markets, R&D And Cost Cuts To Drive Growth
Driven by growth from the emerging markets and gains from cost cutbacks, profits from GE‘s healthcare segment have risen strongly in the last few years.
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U.S. Cites End to C.I.A. Ruses Using Vaccines
Three years after the Central Intelligence Agency set up a phony hepatitis vaccination program in Pakistan as part of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration told a group of American health educators last week that the agency no longer uses immunization programs as a cover for spying operations.
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