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Safe toilets help flush out disease in Cambodia’s floating communities
Open defecation in villages on Tonlé Sap lake contributes to sickness, pollution and drownings. Now, a pathogen-filtering toilet looks set to change lives.
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- South Asia
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How Philips is using AI to transform healthcare
Data scientists have begun betting on the use of machine learning, deep learning, Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help in the early detection of diseases and advance healthcare. Leading the way on the road to healthcare analytics are the world’s five largest medical device companies—Johnson & Johnson, GE Healthcare, Siemens, Medtronic and Philips Healthcare.
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- South Asia
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New Malaria Vaccine 100% Effective, But May Be Difficult to Scale
Today, a human trial for a malaria vaccine reported up to 100% protection for ten weeks following the last dose, a potential breakthrough for a vexing disease. While this vaccine has been trialed before, it has never been this effective. The key appears to be how the vaccine was delivered—directly into the bloodstream as opposed to into a muscle, as most vaccines are.
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Are You in the Market for Condoms?
Valentine’s Day is not the only reason to celebrate February 14th this year – it is also International Condom Day! Since its inception in 2009, International Condom Day is celebrated in conjunction with Valentine’s Day as an ideal opportunity to promote healthy relationships and to remind people to protect themselves and their partners.
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Nikhil Pereira-Kamath Pioneers Healthcare Network in Africa
Nikhil Pereira-Kamath is on to something big, something really big in Africa. His passion for health care for those who need the most made his job easy to take a break from the Harvard Business School, and head to Africa to start Africa Healthcare Network.
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- North America
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Think scale! Engaging Private Pharmacies to Improve Public Health
Lisinopril 20 mg by mouth at 8am? Check. After verifying the patient’s identification, I scanned the medication barcodes into the computer one by one, performing the third and final, confirmation of the “five rights” of medication administration – right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, and right time. As a new nursing student these principles had formed a foundation of my fledgling practice.
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Tanzania: Helpage Devises Health Monitoring Tools for Elderly
Helpage International has come up with Health Outcome Tools (HOT) in data collection for health and care indicators, especially in assessing the impact of interventions for older persons' health and wellbeing. HelpAge International Country Director, Amleset Tewodros, said HOT is a monitoring and evaluation tool developed for understanding projects or programmes that aim to benefit older men and women in low middle income countries.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, public health
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Getting the balance right in African healthcare
Although many African countries' increased focus on strengthening their healthcare systems has led to significant gains in terms of improving health outcomes, the continent continues to struggle with huge challenges such as underfunding, dire shortages of healthcare professionals and a growing double disease burden that encompasses both communicable diseases (CDs) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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