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Project Premonition: bringing researchers together to detect diseases before they become an outbreak
Mosquitoes. They can ruin your backyard barbeque and leave you covered with itchy welts. Or, their bites may also transmit dangerous pathogens. The World Health Organization estimates that mosquito-borne diseases kill more than 1 million…
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Project Premonition: Seeking to prevent disease outbreaks (extended)
Microsoft Research, working with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, University of Pittsburgh and St. George’s University, conducted a feasibility study in Grenada to determine the viability of Project Premonition. The research uses autonomous methods…
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99DOTS: low-cost monitoring and improving medication adherence
99DOTS is a new model of delivering tuberculosis medications that utilizes basic mobile phones and augmented blister packaging to provide real-time adherence monitoring without the burden of direct observation. By far three pilots have been…
