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Gates to keynote NIH Foundation's mobile health event in November
Remember the noise I made back in June about the potential for elitism in mobile healthcare because the media were excluded from a first-ever World Economic Forum meeting on m-health? I'm here to say
Cough into a phone, get a diagnosis
Now this is cool: Cough into your mobile phone and get a diagnosis of the common cold, flu, pneumonia or some other respiratory ailment. No extra hardware needed. How? Because the sound of a cough
RFID tracks infant pneumonia in Pakistan
We've written frequently about the increasing use of mobile technology to provide basic health services in developing countries, but often we're talking about nothing more advanced than text
Keep it simple
PC World reported last Friday that mobile phones have helped to ease shortages of critical drugs--known as stock-outs--at numerous health clinics and pharmacies in several African countries. A
