Low-tech operation could dramatically reduce maternal deaths
...ve excellent obstetric outcomes, this operation is obsolete and Africa will soon "catch up"." Unlike the rich world, however, one of the most common causes of maternal death in low income countries is obstructed labor. The availability of relatively low-tech symphysiotomies, says the author, would help to a...CryoSat-2 on the road to recovery
...een fixed and other changes were needed to replace obsolete equipment and parts. Overall 85 separate improvements were specified of which 30-40% have been small software changes that make the satellite much easier to operate. Richard Francis, ESA CryoSat-2 Project Manager said, We hit the ground running wit...US child health system needs total overhaul, UCLA researchers say
...conomic one. "The outmoded operating system and obsolete logic employed by the U.S. child health system is analogous to a modern business ignoring the Internet, Windows and new Pentium processors and running their operations using MS-DOS on separate and unconnected 286 machines," Halfon said. "It worked in...The World Bank accused of deception and medical malpractice in malaria treatment
...he performance of its projects funded clinically obsolete treatments, against the World Health Organization's advice, for a potentially deadly form of malaria in India Attaran and colleagues recommend that since the Bank has downsized all its malaria staff and has little expertise left, it wind down its ma......rred. "We were thinking that we had just collected obsolete data," Morrow-Jones said. But then they applied for and received funding from the National Science Foundation to quickly repeat the survey, which they did in November 2001 to January 2002. This second survey, which included 803 homeowners, was virt...