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Super cool – on the spot disease detection – with a cell phone!

Posted by Tattletech on Dec 20, 2008 in Bio tech, Cool stuff, Emerging tech, Good things, Health Economics, Innovation
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Wow! What a story today in Wired Magazine — using a cell phone to do on the spot disease detection! Scientists at UCLA who must love their job in a McGyver like project – used only an LED, plastic light filter and some wires have modded a cellphone into a portable blood tester capable of detecting HIV, malaria and other illnesses.

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When healthcare is all about economics

Posted by Tattletech on Oct 9, 2008 in Good things, Health Economics
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This topic is is dear to our hearts as we have had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Warren Stevens and independent consultant who studies the role of health systems in reducing health inequalities and the role of the private sector in health care in developing countries, specifically in understanding consumption and choice in public health and treatment. Now, this is not a boring topic – because diseases like malaria still kill people in sub-sahara Africa and people like Dr. Stevens.

ActWatch provides evidence-based recommendations for policy makers on how to increase availability of therapies for malaria in developing nations.

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