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Erin Will Morton: Global Health Innovation — A Shared Responsibility
Innovation can help tackle some of our greatest global health challenges. But to attract the necessary investment and achieve our goals, we must work together as a global community. New health...
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How Wearable Toys Are Helping Solve the Healthcare Crisis
Despite the promise of a revolution in health, consumer wearables thus far have delivered little more than a flood of meaningless data. Finally, that’s starting to change. A new approach that combines...
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Is Health Care Too Big To Fail? Or Is Failure Exactly What We Need?
The U.S. ranks first in per capita health spending but last in health system performance of 11 major developed countries. And the way we use our money for health care — 38 percent of which goes to...
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How Robots Could Help Chronically Ill Kids Attend School
Students with chronic illness often get only a few hours of education a week. Telepresence robots could let them participate fully in classroom and school activities, write Veronica Ahumada Newhart and...
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The End Of The Waiting Room?
How telemedicine is set to change the healthcare industry. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that growing rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and...
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Hollywood producer Brian Grazer says that a curious mind is the secret to a bigger life. It’s also the secret to a thriving business, as GE can attest. Grazer and Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (A...
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The rise and rise of the sensor
You’ll find the Ngaanyatjarra Lands nestled up by Western Australia’s border, where travelling a few more kilometres east will carry you into the Northern Territory or South Australia. About a dozen...
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Concussion is based on a true story. What’s happening to protect footballers?
Concussion billed itself to US audiences as “the movie the NFL doesn’t want you to see”. That’s heavy on the Hollywood hype considering that the National Football League has partnered with GE in the...
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Rohani Daeng Tene: Indonesia’s Global Award Winning Midwife’s Assistant
Serving her local community has been a priority focus for Rohani Daeng Tene for more than 20 years. As a long-term volunteer for Posyandu (Pos Pelayanan Terpadu, or the Integrated Health Service Point)...
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Investing In Global Health Abroad Actually Boosts US Economy, New Research Shows
A vaccine to combat diarrheal deaths in India. A bed net to protect against malaria in Malawi. If this is what comes to mind when you think about the impact of U.S. government funding for global health...
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