Health Services and Supplies

Superbug infections could cost the lives of around 2.4 million people in Europe, North America and Australia over the next 30 years...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $23 million to an international health agency, which seeks to reduce the risk of...

In a NextBillion series on healthcare solutions for the BOP, Indian-American Nandu Madhava, discusses mDhil, an organization he established to create better...

A greater number of rural Indians are able to access low-cost, high-quality healthcare services through the growth of telemedicine services across India....

Healthpoint Services, a for-profit start-up company in India has leveraged the country’s expanding mobile and internet infrastructure to establish a network of...

Indian Housing Financing Corporation (DHFL) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have recently launched Aadhar Housing Finance (P) Ltd. to expand into...

Through her work at MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, economist Esther Duflo runs randomized, controlled trials to test poverty solutions....

A recent study showed that between 2004 and 2009, Indian villages with internet kiosks that provided information on prenatal and postnatal care...

A Forbes article discusses how Jaipur Foot, a non-profit social enterprise that provides artificial limbs to physically challenged people living below the...

Aravind Eye Care Systems in India has been sighted as an important example of “reverse innovation” in which products and service innovations...

Embrace is a new cost-effective infant warmer, which targets bottom-of-the-pyramid families that have premature babies or those with low birth weights. The...

Tier II Indian towns and cities are seeing expanding healthcare networks as hospital chains increasingly find the right balance between technology, cost...

handygo Technologies and Uninor have developed and recently launched “Wellness World,” a health tool for customers throughout India, providing health advice via...

Two Italian dentists recently leveraged Indian NGO Barefoot College in efforts to train low-income women on how to perform dental procedures such...

During Intellecap’s annual Sankalp conference, Healthpoint Services won the award for Emerging Ventures in the health, water, or sanitation. Healthpoint focuses on...

An Indian doctor trained in the UK is planning to open a 300-bed low-cost, high-quality heart hospital in South Indian state Karnataka...

SANA Care, a social enterprise that enables medical service providers to diagnose and treat cardiovascular conditions in patients in rural India through...

In another move to bring essential healthcare products to low-income communities in India, GE Healthcare will soon launch a low-cost ‘infant-warmer’ in...

Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis continues to promote Arogya Parivar, a rural Indian healthcare business, which launched in 2007. Having been rolled out...

In the first of a two-part blog on the growth of the Aravind Eye Care System, NextBillion discusses how the eye-care clinic...

The Medtronic Foundation is to invest $6 million of venture philanthropy to accelerate quality care and management of diabetes and heart disease...

India’s high rates of maternal death, malnourished children, and major problems in the healthcare sector, have attracted healthcare providers that are re-thinking...

Bloomburg Businessweek has recently reported on jugaad innovation – an approach that refers to overcoming significant constraints thought the development of affordable,...

A new medical service initiative focused on diabetes diagnosis and treatment in rural India has recently been profiled as part of an...

Rapidly expanding internet and mobile networks in India offer companies and governments an opportunity to connect low-income and remote parts of India...

Indian medical technology developer Forus Health Pvt. Ltd. has recently raised $5 million from two venture capital funds. The investments by Accel...

The Economic Times recently discussed Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), an insurance scheme, in which premiums are paid for by central and...