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Guiding Ebola patients to suitable health facilities: an SMS-based approach [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/51l]
Mohamad-Ali Trad, Raja Jurdak, Rajib Rana

“We propose building a recommendation system based on simple SMS text messaging to help Ebola patients readily find the closest health service with available and appropriate resources. The system will map people’s reported symptoms to likely Ebola case definitions and suitable health service locations. In addition to providing a valuable individual service to people with curable diseases, the proposed system will also predict population-level disease spread risk for infectious diseases using crowd-sourced symptoms from the population.”

 

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The role of globalization in drug development and access to orphan drugs: orphan drug legislation in the US/EU and in Latin America [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/3ix]
Renée J.G. Arnold, Lida Bighash, Alejandro Bryón Nieto, Gabriela Tannus Branco de Araújo, Juan Gabriel Gay-Molina, Federico Augustovski

Every scientist is a memory researcher: Suggestions for making research more memorable [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/500]
Christopher R. Madan

PRN: a preprint service for catalyzing R-fMRI and neuroscience related studies [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4ws]
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