Future medicine: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds research on telemedicine market in Bihar Reaching out: for instant treatment! Durham, North Carolina, Patna: a recent report from the North Carolina, US press announced that Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have awarded a $3 million grant for the evaluation of an innovative health care program in the Indian state of Bihar. The Bihar Evaluation of Social Franchising and Telemedicine (BEST) study will be led by Manoj Mohanan, an assistant professor of public policy and global health at Duke University. Mohanan and his co-principal...