{"id":2939,"date":"2014-09-08T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2014-09-08T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:23:27","slug":"22-ideas-for-improving-health-in-the-developing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/22-ideas-for-improving-health-in-the-developing-world\/","title":{"rendered":"22 ideas for improving health in the developing world<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2919\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/13952915197_55da05515b_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2919\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2919\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/13952915197_55da05515b_k.jpg\" alt=\"This sterile cover converts an ordinary power drill into a tool that can be safely used in orthopaedic surgery in developing world clinics where other equipment is prohibitively expensive. (Photo credit: Grand Challenges Canada)\" width=\"350\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/13952915197_55da05515b_k.jpg 350w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/13952915197_55da05515b_k-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This sterile cover converts an ordinary power drill into a tool that can be safely used in orthopaedic surgery in developing world clinics where other equipment is prohibitively expensive. (Photo credit: Grand Challenges Canada)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Government of Canada, through Grand Challenges Canada, announces seed funding Sept. 8 for 22 projects submitted by innovators worldwide and designed to improve health in the developing world. Examples include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A device that converts sound into symbols for display on Google Glass, a tablet or laptop, captioning conversations in real-time for deaf people<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A sterile cover that enables the substitution of an everyday $100 power drill for a $30,000 orthopaedic surgery unit<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A low-cost, stem cell-based drug testing platform to identify illnesses produced by counterfeit drugs<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">News release in full, with links to photos and videos can be found <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1pEqQg7\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. A complete list of local project contacts is<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/sciencemedia.ca\/spreadsheets\/d\/1YU8G_4xGsmIQSxJ5bHR6rofwMLW9jg-EYVXR1UwWnhc\/edit#gid=762764425\" target=\"_blank\"> available here<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Canada, through Grand Challenges Canada, announces seed funding Sept. 8 for 22 projects submitted by innovators worldwide and designed to improve health in the developing world. Examples include: A device that converts sound into symbols for display on Google Glass, a tablet or laptop, captioning conversations in real-time for deaf people A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[869,51,53,476],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-canada-en","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/13952915197_55da05515b_k.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Lp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}