Health Reading List | November 20, 2015 |
Startup Highlight: Diagnostics for All
Diagnostics for All won the 100k Competition at MIT a number of years back. A pretty great mission of bringing low cost diagnostic equipment to developing countries. In light of the scandals around Theranos, I thought it would be interesting to highlight a company that is far less known but still trying to tackle the same issue of diagnostic costs.
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