{"id":10134,"date":"2018-04-14T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10134"},"modified":"2018-04-13T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:06:16","slug":"applying-silicon-valley-smarts-to-age-old-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10134","title":{"rendered":"Applying Silicon Valley Smarts To Age-Old Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Brian Rinker for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>YAOUND\u00c9, Cameroon\u00a0\u2014\u00a0On the second floor of an infectious-disease research facility in this African capital, Dr. Joseph Kamgno, the country\u2019s leading expert on parasitic roundworms, stood at his desk staring down at the black hard-shelled case that had just arrived from a bioengineering lab at the University of California-Berkeley. <a href=\"https:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/applying-silicon-valley-smarts-to-age-old-diseases\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=62078251&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_CPWLovycTFj2ffz7HeBhzXnoSrM3sfIpKKTxD--Xn6O4IwrxfctL8T4cetvugjOlatSjd7jyz5SJWqDRCHvBASzRMKw&amp;_hsmi=62078251\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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