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Google Won the Internet. Now It Wants to Cure Diseases

WHEN GOOGLE CO-FOUNDER Larry Page dropped his now-famous blog post revealing that Google was reorganizing itself as Alphabet, one of the most striking things was what he ch...

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Zen And The Art Of Dying Well

What is the ??ight??way to die? We??e experiencing a zeitgeist moment about that. ??eing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,??by Atul Gawande, is a best-selling b...

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Medicine?? Search For Meaning

Every day, we are reminded that the health care system is in crisis. We are going bankrupt. There are too many lawsuits. We practice defensive medicine. We restrict access....

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Sustainable Development

Physicists Set a New Speed Record For Light-Emitting Quantum Dots

Researchers at Duke University have developed a light-emitting device that can be switched on and off up to 90 billion times per second. This 90 GHz is roughly twice the sp...

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Sustainable Development

Paging Dr. Watson: IBM Supercomputer Gains Access To 30 Billion Medical Images

IBM’s Watson supercomputer (and “Jeopardy!” winner) will be processing a lot of broken limbs and tumors in its ultimate quest for sentience. The company a...

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India Plans To Enforce WHO-GMP Standards For All Pharmaceutical Products

The World Health Organization (WHO) has drawn up a good manufacturing practice (GMP), to ensure healthcare products are 'consistently produced and controlled' according to ...

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A New Report Identifies 30 Technologies That Will Save Lives In The Next 15 Years

President Obama wasn’t the only head of state visiting Ethiopia this summer. In early July, the United Nations brought global leaders to Addis Ababa, for the third an...

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Mothers Helping Mothers To Live With H.I.V.

When Teresa Njeri got pregnant in 2001 in Kiambu, a suburb of Nairobi, it was the end of the world.   She was joyous about the pregnancy — but an AIDS test showe...

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On AIDS: Three Lessons From Africa.

An AIDS fable: Once upon a time, in the years after AIDS went from being a death sentence to a manageable disease, at least for people rich enough to take antiretroviral th...

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Sustainable Development

Smart, Self-Destructing Syringes Could Save Millions Of Lives

In December 2014, Yem Chrin, an unlicensed Cambodian doctor, was charged with murder. By reusing the same syringe, he had infected over 270 people in a remote community in ...

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