A Johns Hopkins team designed an Ebola suit so good, it’s going on the market
The 2015 Innovation By Design Awards Winners: Social Good
Startup Shift Labs wants to change how medical devices are made
Modula S and CuVerro Team Up to Offer Best-in-Class Military Medical Unit – Ideally Suited for Rapidly Deployable Infection Isolation
The new Modula S Infection Isolation Unit incorporates healthy, easy-to-clean CuVerro® bactericidal copper alloy and excess power for communications – and the Unit is rated for a twenty-five year life. Modula S was recently named an awardee of the USAID Ebola Grand Challenge for its innovative rapidly deployable treatment units.
Amidst Ebola Crisis, Coordination and Long-Term Thinking Pay Off
Will This Be Our Decade of Data Use?
If anything positive has come out of the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa, it’s that we can finally put to rest a longstanding debate—namely, whether it’s more effective in global health to focus on specific issues (such as HIV and maternal health), or to take a systems-based approach, looking at the whole of a country’s capacity to provide health care to its people.
This medical device startup just raised cash and is heading to Rwanda
West African celebrities launch a Song Contest in Guinea that aims to put an end to Ebola
Fashioning a better Ebola suit with sewing machines and chocolate syrup
The most recent West African Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone sickened nearly 25,000 people and killed 10,000. Medical professionals are particularly vulnerable, as they work closely with infected and highly infectious patients. But changes in the equipment they use to see the infected may make it easier to protect workers from the disease.