India to get mobile phone based health monitoring system
UK-based Loughborough University’s engineers have entered upon a partnership with experts of India to develop a unique mobile phone health monitoring system.
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[This article was published in the February 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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