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Eating Soup with a Fork: Reshaping Global Health Care Delivery to Meet the Challenges of NCDs

In the lead up to the UN High-Level Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), there is been much discourse – and the rightfully so – on the need for greater public awareness of the threat NCDs, the framing of NCDs as … Continue reading

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Diagnosing Diabetes Easier

About 24 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, have diabetes. Although people with diabetes are at risk for serious medical complications, with close monitoring and treatment they need not suffer from them. The problem is 1 in … Continue reading

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