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Recent Developments, <br /> Key Innovations, and <br /> Insightful Reports

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Insightful Reports

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How to revolutionize low-tech health innovation

According to Anurag Mairal of Seattle based PATH Health Technologies is of the opinion that a revolution in healthcare is in order, as companies cannot keep “adding bells and whistles to the same product to garner sales”, and instead, new and innovative low cost options are needed to cross borders […]

September 23, 2013

“Eye-phone” to revolutionize African optical care

A new mobile phone app which acts as a mobile visual clinic is being tested in Africa. A traditional clinic set up to test eyes for problems would cost US$100,000, but a team of doctors from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are testing this innovative smartphone solution […]

September 23, 2013

Brazil “imports” Cuban doctors in the face of its healthcare crisis

In the face of public protests against the decrepit public healthcare system in Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff’s government has signed a deal to contract 4000 Cuban doctors to be deployed to places including the country’s most forlorn outposts. Cubans have always deployed its doctors in abundance to the world’s most […]

September 23, 2013

Morality rate in LAC (Latin American Countries) decreases

According to World Bank and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)’s new report, most people in LACs are living longer as compared to 40 years ago. A drop of more than 80% has been noted for children 4 years old or younger, and that of more than 50% […]

September 23, 2013

Doctor retaining mechanisms for developing world

U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) together with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding a unique concept in a number of countries in Africa, wherein 12 African countries have collaborated to look at ways to decrease doctor emigration rates. Read more here.

September 23, 2013

Counterfeit medicines target Africa’s poor

Counterfeit drugs have found ready customers in Africa’s poor and vulnerable, where vendors sell their wares in the open, on streets or even in some grocery stores. Counterfeit medicines are sometimes mixed with the real medicines legally acquired or sometimes stolen from hospital supplies, and sold. While, mostly these medicines […]

September 23, 2013

How a shortage of doctors in the UK or US can affect healthcare in the developing world

For doctors trained in developing countries, being employed in London or New York is easily a ten-fold increase in salary, as compared to staying in Kampala, or Tanzania, for example. It is therefore time to measure what impact emigrating doctors will have on the healthcare scenario of the developing country […]

September 23, 2013

Treating “sepsis”, a new approach to an old problem

This article by the co-founder of Paediatric Universal Life Saving Effort (PULSE) talks about how training physicians, nurses and healthcare workers in developing countries to use tools that could help decrease paediatric mortality, is a new approach to solving the old problem of infant and child deaths in the developing […]

September 23, 2013

“Jeevanti” Hospitals in Mumbai suburbs take low cost healthcare up one notch“Jeevanti” Hospitals in Mumbai suburbs take low cost healthcare up one notch

Jeevanthi hospitals are a start-up range of hospitals that aspire to bring low cost world class healthcare to the low-to-average income population in cities and smaller towns in Maharashtra and Gujarat in India. Started by former Apollo franchisee owners, this hospital seems to have a number of issues figured out, […]