In two of our recent posts, we described to you our engagement with an international foundation that wanted to appropriately communicate new findings about the links between meeting the unmet need for family planning and climate change mitigation. (If you missed these posts, click here and here to read them.) Read on to know about […]
Archives for January 2013
Climate change & family planning: Communicating new concepts – II
Last week, we talked about the initial phase of our engagement with an international foundation that wanted to appropriately communicate new findings about the links between meeting the unmet need for family planning and climate change mitigation. (If you missed this blog post, click here to read it.) As we mentioned, one of the key […]
India – The Internet enables remote diagnosis of heart attacks and strokes
In an ICU department of a hospital in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, a doctor hundreds, even thousand miles away is able to diagnose whether a patient has suffered a heart attack or stroke using telemedicine in a matter of minutes. The patient is monitored using a ECG device that is connected to the Internet. A […]
Climate change & family planning: Communicating new concepts – I
A few years ago, an international foundation funded a sophisticated peace of research to examine the links between meeting the unmet need for family planning and climate change mitigation. This research, conducted by a leading research institute, involved both economics and climate science. The key findings included the following: Meeting the unmet need for family […]