Shift Labs Wins 2017 Global Health Innovator Award at The MedTech Conference
Shift Labs is the winner of the 2017 Global Health Innovator Award. The award was presented at The MedTech Conference which took place last month in Santa Clara, CA. This is the award’s inaugural year and was a result of the conference’s new Innovations in Global Health Program, which puts a focus on medical innovation in the developing world. In addition to the recognition of their technology’s sustainability and impact in resource-constrained areas, Shift Labs also receives $50,000 with the award provided by both TEAMFund and MedTech Innovator with support from industry leaders including BD, Medtronic, ...
Source: Medgadget - October 31, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Zimbabwe's Hyperinflation: The Correct Number is 89 Sextillion Percent
Most press reports about Zimbabwe’s fantastic hyperinflation are off the mark – way off the mark. Even our most trusted news sources fail to get the facts right. This confirms the “95 Percent Rule”: 95 percent of what you read in the financial press is either wrong or irrelevant.
When it comes to the reportage about hyperinflation, there are no excuses. All 56 of the world’s hyperinflations have been carefully documented in “World Hyperinflations”. This record is available in the Routledge Handbook of Major Economic Events in Economic History (2013) and has been available online since 2012 at the Cato Inst...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 3, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Steve H. Hanke Source Type: blogs
Zimbabwe Needs SLPs in Public Hospitals
Zimbabwe desperately needs speech-language pathologists, according to the Africa Health Network in an article on Voice of America. State-owned hospitals and other public health organizations—especially those in the capital city of Harare—can’t keep SLPs employed. Government officials say this occurred primarily because of low salaries.
“Right now there is not a single speech therapist working in public service in Zimbabwe,” says Michele Angeletti, country representative of Christian Blind Mission.
This was confirmed by the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Dr. Gerald Gwinji, who says t...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 9, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: News Autism Spectrum Disorder Speech Disorders speech-language pathology Swallowing Disorders Traumatic Brain Injury Source Type: blogs
Zimbabwe Elections Underway as Mugabe Seeks to Remain in Power
Marian L. Tupy
Zimbabweans went to the polls today. Standing against each other in the contest for the presidency were, for the third time, President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Their respective political parties, the ZANU-PF and Movement for Democratic Change, battled for the control of the country’s Parliament.
None can be sure about the outcome, but smart money must be on the 89-year-old dictator, who seems determined to extend his 33-year hold on power. Mugabe has managed to hang on to the presidency in more difficult circumstances, murdering his way to electoral “victory” in the midst of...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 31, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Marian L. Tupy Source Type: blogs
The African Cochrane Indaba: a Zimbabwean woman's experience
Sarah Manyame is an obstetrician and gynaecologist and lectures at the University of Zimbabwe. She is an author with the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group. Here, in the second in a series of Cochrane Blog posts from participants at the recent African Cochrane Indaba, Sarah describes her impressions. read more (Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog)
Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - June 7, 2013 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Authors Cochrane contributors Cochrane Reviews Conferences & Meetings Evidence-based health care Low and middle income countries Source Type: blogs
