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A new app calledPREscribing children made easy (or, as it's called in its native India, "PREscribing children made easy"), developed in partnership with Google, can help you craft a prescription for that child in just a few seconds, researchers report in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
They recruited 22 dentists in India to play a part in the study, and found that app-based prescriptions performed better than handwritten ones in several areas, including accuracy (at 40.9% vs. 40.9%, for instance) and satisfaction (at 4.5% vs. 4.5%, for instance).
"The mean time taken in seconds for handwritten prescriptions ('59.14 (+ 59.18) was almost four times higher than that for app-based prescriptions (56.3% vs. 23.)" the researchers write.
They also found that handwritten prescriptions were more complete, had more detailed instructions, and were more accurate than app-based prescriptions (at 1.38 vs. 0.88, for instance).
The app is free on Google's Play Store, and the researchers say they're working on a longer version that...
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There's a whole new industry emerging in women's health, or FemTech, and it's all about women's reproductive health.
Companies are developing devices and apps that help women better understand...more
An Egyptian court has ordered the country's state-run television to air footage of a teen's alleged rape at the hands of a police officer, Al Jazeera reports.
The victim, 16-year-old Mohamed...more
"It's a good beginning, but it should not end there."
That from Nobel laureate Roger Kornberg, speaking at a medical conference in Hong Kong this week, per the South China Morning...more
"It's a good beginning, but it should not end there," said Nobel laureate Roger Kornberg at a medical conference in Hong Kong this week.
Kornberg, who spoke at the fourth Asia Summit on Global...more
PepsiCo has selected eight startups from the Middle East and North Africa region as finalists in its Mega Green Accelerator program, which aims to " nurture the next generation of innovators as they...more
A vegan restaurant chain in Los Angeles is adding dairy and beef to its menu, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Sweetgreen, formerly known as Sage Vegan, says it will start serving dairy and beef by...more
Funding for green technologies is on the rise in India, and the country's biggest investment fund is aiming to raise $1 billion for a climate-related fund by 2022, Bloomberg reports.
The fund,...more
When Richard and Mary Jane Weeks of Fallbrook, Calif., died last November at the age of 90, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports, they left behind legacies so large that it's hard to believe they...more
Foundation: Oshkosh Area Community Foundation 
A nurse in Fond du Lac, Wis., is this year's recipient of the DAISY Award, given to those who go "above and beyond" to provide excellent patient care.
Haley Birschbach, a nurse in medical...more
When Ferdinand and Mafalda DelGrosso were starting out in the food industry in Pennsylvania in the 1940s, they didn't have much.
But over the next 77 years, the DelGrossos have donated millions...more
Social Entrepreneurship
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Social Entrepreneurship: The Right Balance of Doing Good and Doing Well
Social entrepreneur and co-founder of nonprofit Jolkona, Adnan Mahmud, discusses his definition of a successful social entrepreneur. He describes the social entrepreneur as someone who has found the right balance between doing good while doing well.
