Dr S Thiagrajan, who began the research nearly two decades ago, says he was guided by Ayurvedic and other Indian medicine systems.
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Mr Gates's focus on poor-country diseases increases the chances of making the breakthroughs in medicine and delivery systems necessary to beating those illnesses.
The numbers may reflect that while most people have heard of the pill and condoms, they have never been taught how to use the pill or where to get it, or how to put on a condom, said Dr. Yolanda Wimberly, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at the Morehouse School of Medicine and an adolescent medicine specialist with Grady Health Systems in Atlanta, Georgia.
Wide swaths of medicine now depend on the lifesupport systems that I.
India has established dedicated satellite systems for education and tele-medicine delivery, which can reach even the most remote rural population.
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Researchers there conduct studies in astrophysics, biology, medicine, geology, glaciology and ocean and climate systems.
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In summary, Precision Medicine, defined as rules (algorithm) based medicine by Clayton Christensen seems on the horizon, where medicine and drug discovery will ultimately be supported by intelligent systems (compare Watson) that will enable completely new therapeutic concepts, not least with the advent of mobileICT-based companion (monitoring)diagnostics.
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Whether it is through an accountable care organization (ACO) or bundled payment to a patient-centered medical home, insurance companies and government health programs like Medicare are moving toward so-called value-based payment systems and away from fee-for-service medicine.
In medicine this workplace atmosphere, complicated by perverse economic incentives and weak systems of accountability, contributes to a hospital culture marked by a lack of a sense of communal ownership in the overall delivery of care.
Many health systems talk a big game about changing dysfunctional ways in which medicine is practiced, but far too few are doing much to make it happen.
For 15 years, as a hospital doctor in the rural town of Tugela Ferry, in the heart of South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, he had watched locals with extinguished immune systems die from infections like tuberculosis, unable to give them medicine that worked.
The idea of inhaled medicine goes back to German experiments with insulin in 1925 and continues with Inhale Therapeutic Systems, which went public in 1994 (recently renamed Nektar Therapeutics (nasdaq: NKTR - news - people )).
Diabetics who are infected with TB become ill with the disease at three times the ratio of the general population because their immune systems are compromised, said Dr. Seaworth, who is also a professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center-Tyler.
And features that encourage patients to take their medicine and ensure it is working well should make a pill more valuable to insurers and national health systems, and thus justify higher prices.
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