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Global Health
How digital technologies can address 5 sources of health inequity
From improving access to health information to aiding better representation in health systems and services, here's how digital can help close health gaps.
Future of Health and Healthcare
Tiny robots could deliver drugs directly to our central nervous system
New research has developed soft robots that can be controlled using magnetic fields. It's hoped the robots could be used for targeted drug delivery.
Healthcare Delivery
Why US doctors are prescribing time in the great outdoors
A growing sector of the U.S. medical community is prescribing time outdoors in the same way that they would prescribe normal medication.
Precision Medicine
Gene therapies could change millions of lives - so how will we pay for them?
Gene therapies can cost million of dollars. Kevin Doxzen explains why creative new payment systems are needed to help fund treatment.
COVID-19
India vs Virus: voices from the COVID front line
What's it like battling COVID and providing healthcare and other support in India? Radio Davos hears from the 'social entrepreneurs' rising to the challenge.
Global Health
The link between dementia and hearing loss explained
A new study has shown that hearing impairment is linked to a greater risk of dementia and that managing hearing problems early may help to reduce the risk.
Future of Health and Healthcare
How can we reduce the environmental impact of digital healthcare?
Initiatives such as green mining, green cloud computing and green IT will be essential in reducing global health burdens as the digital approach expands.
Mental Health
4 facts you didn't know about mental health in Africa
African governments are still not able to fund mental-health services adequately – so how do we help vulnerable populations get access to them?
Future of Health and Healthcare
This inflatable prosthetic hand gives amputees real-time control
Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand for upper-limb amputees.
COVID-19
Can the COVID-19 response lead to an immunization renaissance?
The vaccine effort has raised awareness and sparked greater understanding of healthcare inequities, which will be valuable tools to face new healthcare challenges.
Future of Health and Healthcare
How data can future-proof healthcare in Latin America
Some countries in Latin America are embracing a data-driven approach to healthcare – showing it's possible to build a more sustainable post-pandemic model.
Future of Health and Healthcare
How blockchain can help in Africa’s fight against COVID-19 and future disease outbreaks
Africa's youth is embracing blockchain - this could help the continent mitigate some of the effects of COVID-19.
Future of Health and Healthcare
For the first time, a new generation of artificial heart has been used in the United States
A team at Duke University hospital have become the first North American centre to implant a new-generation artificial heart, that could help with donor shortages.
Global Health
Study: Hepatitis C drugs are still effective against new African strains
A new study has found the direct-acting antivirals to treat hepatitis C were effective against almost all of the new strains of the virus found in Africa.
COVID-19
Send vaccines where people want them: developing nations
A study shows COVID-19 vaccine acceptance is significantly higher in low- and middle-income countries, which would benefit from greater vaccine distribution.