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How to Keep Clean-Burning Cookstoves From Gathering Dust: Devices that cut down on respiratory diseases too often aren’t being used
Smoky indoor cook fires and traditional stoves lead to 2 million deaths per year. In response, various programs have distributed cookstoves to 830 million people over the past 50 years. Unfortunately, many of these clean-burning cookstoves are unused. New monitoring technologies are being designed to find out why.
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Health-care innovations to drive down local costs
A diagnostic kit that can detect tuberculosis (TB) in 25 minutes, diagnosis of diabetes using a dipstick and a doctor consultation that can be capped at R50. These are just a few of the health-care innovations that South African medical researchers and companies have up their sleeves, and are planning to introduce to the health-care system in their bid to drive down costs.
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Building A Global Health Sensing Network From Star Trek-Inspired Devices
This futuristic tricorder gadget measures health and environmental data almost instantly. What would happen if everyone in the world had one?
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SRL Diagnostics to enter CIS, Africa
SRL Diagnostics, the healthcare arm of Fortis, is eyeing expansion into fast-growing markets of Africa and CIS countries. SRL, which has about 40 per cent share of the organised diagnostic market in India, plans to open labs and collection centres countries such as Congo, Kenya and Nigeria in Africa. It is also looking at tie-ups in CIS countries.
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Bill Gates supports affordable bio-toilets for Ghanaians
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has offered a grant of one million US Dollars to the Biofilcom, inventors and producers of biofil toilets to scale up to make the toilets available at cheaper cost.
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Will Health Benefit From India’s New CSR Rules?: Impact of the new law, which kicks in April 1, still being debated
“Social business projects” are encouraged under India’s new corporate social responsibility laws, and that bodes well for social entrepreneurs and anyone wanting to innovate in trying to reach people at the Bottom of the Pyramid.
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Designed to Arrive Early: How we can save the lives of millions of children
To save children’s lives in the world’s poorest communities, we need to break free from the current reactive model for healthcare delivery. We need to reach our patients earlier.
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- Education, Health Care
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New tele-medicine concept launched to tackle sickle cell
A novel concept of providing medical facility over phone to families of newborns suffering from Sickle Cell Disease has been launched by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) here in co-ordination with the Gujarat government.
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- Health Care
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