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Stanford: Eyego
The standard equipment used to photograph the eye is expensive . . . costing up to tens of thousands of dollars, and . . . requires extensive training to use properly. Primary care physicians, emergency department staff, and . . . rural areas throughou...
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Solar: Life-Saving Oxygen
Solar-powered oxygen concentrator system. Solar panels on the roof, . . . power the oxygen concentrator during the day, . . . which pulls oxygen from the air. Then after the sun goes down, . . . batteries charged via the solar panel, . . . keep the co...
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Solar-Powered Sterile Box
"Sterile Box," bring's off-grid sterilization, to developing countries. Housed in a shipping container, the "Sterile Box" is made up of 2 rooms: . . . . . . Main room, where the 4-step sterilization takes place, and . . . . . . Sep...
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Solar Water Purifier
Solar Water Purifier: . . . . . . Cheap, . . . . . . Simple, . . . . . . Flexible, and . . . . . . Potable. Made from the same plastic as a water jug, . . . with a screw cap spout at the tip and . . . an inward circular collecting trough at the base...
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Smart Belt Watches Your Waist
"Welt," monitors the wearer's: . . . . . . Steps, . . . . . . Sitting time, and , . . . . . . Waist size. Syncing via Bluetooth 4.1 . . . to an iOS or Android device, . . . the Welt companion app, . . . will then present that information,...
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Single Dose Cure For Malaria
This “super pill” could potentially cure millions of people every year, and save the lives of over one million people from around the world each year. This “cure” will most likely save health care systems throughout the developing world billions of dol...
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Saving Lives: With Clean Cookstoves
4.3 million premature deaths each year, . . . are linked to exposure to smoke from open fires, and . . . traditional cookstoves. A range of diseases, including: . . . . . . pneumonia (in children), . . . . . . lung cancer, . . . . . . cardiovascular d...
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Running Out Of Drinking #water
All living things need water? Humans can live longer without food, . . . then they can without water? Cape Town, South African, . . . is the first major city to face the threat of . . . running out of drinking water. Despite covering about 70% of th...
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Rolling Healthy Food
Toronto has its share of food deserts, . . . those areas have the highest levels of poverty and . . . the poorest access to fresh food. That's where this mobile food market comes in; . . . it now brings fresh produce at good prices to the people mo...
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Reinventing A $10 Trillion Industry Using #ai
Dr. Ali Parsa, Founder and CEO of Babylon Health, . . . shows how AI for medical diagnosis, is reinventing a . . . $10 trillion industry. Global Health care, with . . . a Doctor, and Triage in your pocket, using cellphone's, with . . . Babylo...
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Purple Potatoes
Researchers at Colorado State University (CSU), . . . have developed new varieties of purple potato, . . . that are much richer in antioxidants than traditional white and yellow varieties. They're said to be on par with superfoods, such as: . . . ....
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Puremadi Filters Clean Water
The filter resembles a flower pot, and is used to both . . . mechanically remove particulate matter from the water, and to . . . kill microbes within it. The devices are made by the villagers, . . . starting with a mixture of locally-sourced . . . . ....
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Promising New Cancer Treatment
A clinical trial has proved to send some cancer patients' Leukemia into remission.
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Prefab Truck And Shipping Container
The 2014 Moved To Care competition, . . . sought design solutions for providing healthcare, . . . to rural and isolated areas in Asia. The winning designs are: . . . a medical clinic on wheels and . . . a shipping container clinic. Participants were a...
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Pollution: Old Gas Stations Leaking
Toxic gas leaks from gas stations contaminating water in Israel.
The contamination is toxic, “carcinogenic and potentially harmful to the
. . . . . . central nervous system,
. . . . . . immune system and
. . . . . . might reduce fertility.”
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Painless Skin #cancer Sampler Device
Skin cancer is the most common form of the disease, and . . . there's a new microbiopsy device, that's: . . . . . . far less invasive, . . . . . . basically painless, and . . . . . . won't leave a scar. It's tiny puncture mark, . . . h...
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Pain Killers In Your Kitchen
May 02 2012 12:00 AM | Shortpoet-GTD in Health
7 superfoods that fight arthritis, backaches, and more.
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Our Overuse Of Antibiotics.
Apr 07 2012 12:00 AM | Shortpoet-GTD in Health
"The U.S. is leading the world in the overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming. We use more antibiotics per kilogram of meat produced than any other nation in the world and we use 12 times as much as the country using the least, Norway. In do...
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Non-Invasive Surgery
Sonic "invisible scalpel" With a new technique that uses tightly-focused sound waves for micro-surgery, . . . University of Michigan engineering researchers . . . drilled a 150-micrometer hole in a confetti-sized artificial kidney stone. Sou...
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Nigeria Dr. Builds His Own Hospital Equipment
Dr. Awojobi runs a medical clinic in Eruwa, Nigeria, . . . which has an unreliable power grid, . . . so in order to maintain his high standards of care, . . . without access to a reliable source of electricity, . . . or the need to purchase expensive f...
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New York City Disaster Apartments For Homeless
If another Sandy hits, . . . some New Yorkers may be living inside, . . . stackable apartments that offer all the amenities of home, . . . FEMA shipping containers. Source: the-perfect-disaster-apartments
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New Diabetics Drug
Canagliflozin, is part of a new group of drugs, . . . that causes blood sugar to be excreted in the urine. The drug improved participants’ blood-sugar levels, . . . led to weight loss and . . . reductions in blood pressure. The drug would be taken onc...
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Natural Cancer Drug Available From Soaking Soyb...
The incidence of a number of common cancers . . . (breast, colorectal, prostate, bladder, lymphoma, and oral cancers) . . . is lower in Japan by a factor of 2 - 10 times than in . . . North America or Western Europe. Early studies showed that BBI...
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Nanocomposite Cavity Filler
Reverses Decay, Killing Bacteria and Regenerating Tooth Structure
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