MIT researchers in Kenya have increased the rate of success of TB treatment by 9%, their study concluded. This was achieved through an interactive mobile platform which reminded the patie...

Peter Dizikes · MIT News 10 Sep 2019

Healthcare Delivery

The life-saving power of sex education

179 governments pledged to provide information to help young people make “responsible” decisions about sex and sexuality. It is time to honour that pledge, by giving teens the information...

Jayathma Wickramanayake · Project Syndicate 06 Sep 2019

Global Health

These brothers are combining linguistics and AI to increase the quality of end-of-life care

Bob and David Gramling are combining palliative care expertise, linguistics and AI to encourage more effective conversations between doctors and people receiving end-of-life care.

Michael Erard · Mosaic Science 04 Sep 2019

Africa

The women of Turkana county, Kenya are ready to lead

Addressing the maternal mortality rate in and around Kakuma refugee camp could set the region's women free to drive it forward economically.

Neema Kaseje 04 Sep 2019

Fourth Industrial Revolution

AI could give eye charts a personalised overhaul

Artificial intelligence could improve the detection of illnesses during eye exams.

James Devitt · Futurity 02 Sep 2019

Mental Health

This woman is fighting to end stigma around mental health in Uganda

It took more than a decade for Liz Kakooza to be diagnosed with depression. Now the Ugandan mother and mental health advocate is on a mission to make life better for others in the same p...

Kate Whiting 29 Aug 2019

Future of Health and Healthcare

In the future, no one should be excluded from healthcare

Advances in AI-driven medicine and telehealth will allow the healthcare revolution to take root in developing countries.

Jasper Westerink 27 Aug 2019

Africa

How to start a digital healthcare revolution in Africa in 6 steps

Nowhere is better positioned to benefit from the digital revolution in healthcare than Africa - but there are some potential pitfalls to overcome first. Here are six solutions to some of ...

Patrice Matchaba 26 Aug 2019

Africa

Why the most important tool in healthcare is trust

As recent research by Wellcome Trust shows, Africans trust vaccines more than most of the rest of the world - but trust in healthcare institutions and practitioners generally is low acros...

Jeremy Farrar 26 Aug 2019

Future of Health and Healthcare

This is how we can prevent one of the biggest killers of children worldwide

Diarrheal diseases are the third leading cause of child mortality globally, with nearly 534,000 under fives dying from them in 2017. Promoting preventative measures and sharing knowledge ...

Our World in Data 22 Aug 2019

Global Health

Haitian women are dying due to lack of maternal care. Here’s how we can change that

Maternal care is not received by all new mothers in Haiti. But there are options available to fight this.

Jimena Llopis and Emilie Bernadette Perge · World Bank 22 Aug 2019

Global Health

What are children dying from and what can we do about it?

While the total number of child deaths has more than halved from 11.8 million in 1990 to 5.4 million in 2017, the major causes of child deaths have largely remained the same.

Our World in Data 20 Aug 2019

3D Printing

This new method can create vascular stents that are 40 times smaller than previously possible

Scientists in Zurich have developed new 'indirect 4D printing' technology which has allowed them to develop vascular stents 40 times smaller than previously possible. These stents could o...

ETH Zurich · Futurity 14 Aug 2019

Social Media

Pseudoscience is taking over social media – and putting us all at risk

Social media has become a platform for pseudoscience, creating attitudes such as anti-vaccine sentiments that could cause danger.

Santosh Vijaykumar 13 Aug 2019

Climate Change

This is what we can learn from the Romans about ignoring climate change

The paradoxes of social development, and the inherent unpredictability of nature, worked in concert to bring about Rome’s demise, writes classics professor Kyle Harper.

Kyle Harper · Quartz 09 Aug 2019

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