News tagged with grand challenges
Integrating mental health care: New series
The first article in a landmark series to help health care workers and providers, donors, and decision makers understand the importance of including mental health care in global health programs is being published in this ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 30, 2013 |
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HIV self-testing: The key to controlling the global epidemic
A new international study has confirmed that self-testing for HIV is effective and could be the answer to controlling the global epidemic. This major systematic review, led by the Research Institute of the McGill University ...
HIV & AIDS
Apr 02, 2013 |
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Cheap, simple bacteria test could spare newborns deadly infections
(Medical Xpress)—For babies, the trip from the womb to the outside world is a transition from a blank, sterile slate to host for what will eventually be trillions of microscopic organisms.
Medical research
Nov 02, 2012 |
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Canada tackles mental health woes in developing countries
Canada announced Wednesday it was disbursing Can$19.4 million in aid for 14 poorer countries to treat mental health disorders.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 10, 2012 |
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New technology represents next-generation tool for detecting substandard and counterfeit medicines
A new platform for detecting substandard and counterfeit medicines using microfluidics has been recognized with a grant from Saving Lives at Birth's "Grand Challenge through Development." Dubbed PharmaCheck, the technology ...
Medications
Jul 26, 2012 |
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Tattoo-like devices for wireless pregnancy monitoring
The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bioengineering ...
Medical research
May 09, 2012 |
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Saliva HIV test passes the grade
A saliva test used to diagnose the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is comparable in accuracy to the traditional blood test, according to a new study led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre ...
HIV & AIDS
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Gates, Canadian NGO offer $32 mn for research
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a Canadian NGO announced Friday $32 million to fund research for the discovery and development of affordable tools for rapidly diagnosing diseases in developing nations.
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Dec 16, 2011 |
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Grant funds feasibility study of microneedle patches for polio vaccination
The Georgia Institute of Technology will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ...
Medical research
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Preventing HIV/AIDS one SMS at a time
One million people in Uganda live with HIV/AIDS, where long distances and expensive travel costs significantly limit access to treatment. By employing an innovative mobile-technology strategy, Dr. Femida Gwadry-Sridhar, Director ...
HIV & AIDS
Nov 01, 2011 |
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'Innovating for every woman, every child' report published
A report published Online by The Lancet today -- "Innovating for Every Woman, Every Child" -- attempts to capture how changes in global developments and connectivity will interact in order to improve the health and wellbeing ...
Health
Sep 11, 2011 |
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Top global challenges in mental health identified
Mental health experts are calling for a greater world focus on improving access to care and treatment for mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders, as well as increasing discoveries in research that will enable ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 06, 2011 |
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