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Telehealth in developing countries may require change in Western med schools

About 80 percent of the population of Nepal live outside Kathmandu, but 90 percent of the country's doctors are in the capital city. Electricity is spotty, the government is somewhat unstable and

Text messaging promises cheap, effective delivery of health information--in Africa

If you want to see the true potential of mobile healthcare, look east. Not as far as high-tech countries like Japan or South Korea, and further south than post-industrial Europe. Yes, once again, I'm

Sensors in mobile phones offer new public-health opportunities

California-based not-for-profit InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters) is testing open-source software to share, aggregate and analyze data sent via text message from