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This is yet another example how mobile technology is helping improve people’s lives. FrontlineSMS:Medic aims to improve health care in poor, rural villages in the developing world. First the problem. There is a global shortage of some 4.4 million healthcare professionals, as estimated by the World Health Organization, and many rural health centers in poor regions depend largely on community health workers who travel among clinics and villages. And because these health workers can’t cover all

Thought Gadgets. Advertising, marketing and the media ... what works. Thursday, September 3, 2009. The sex appeal of health care, cavemen and Ronald Reagan. It's hard to remember now but what put Ronald Reagan on the political map was ...