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 […]
India and HP develop new system for better healthcare
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research [CSIR] and IT giant Hewlett Packard have announced the development of a system that would provide affordable health care to the rural poor and at the same time facilitate faster discovery of drugs for various diseases. The system is based on a truly innovative combination of the latest […]
On Climate Change, Part 2: The Hope on the Horizon
“We need to have more such research that takes climate change away from the discussion on drowning polar bears and talks about how it is going to impact us right here, right now” In the second part of this four-part series, Baird’s CMC consultant Aditya Bahadur discusses the hope on the horizon for tackling climate […]
On Climate Change, Part 1: The American Presidential Election
“Reconciling industrial growth with climate change has become a clear and much more stark choice for Obama through his last term” Hurricane Sandy brought climate change to the fore in a presidential race that had until then remained largely silent on the issue. But, according to Aditya Bahadur, a Baird’s CMC consultant who is also […]
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