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Rwandan health network secures funding for African expansion
Rwanda based Africa Healthcare Network (“AHN”), which runs the largest chain of kidney care & dialysis centers across East Africa, has announced ...March 21, 2019Digital health technology could improve quality, patient safety in Africa
Digital health technology could improve quality, patient safety in Africa, despite the challenges facing Africans to have access to modern health facilities. ...February 18, 2019A Physician Encounter With Sickle Cell Disorder
As a carrier of the sickle cell trait (AS), I found out about the implication of Sickle Cell Disease in my early ...January 29, 2019Job Vacancies at FHI 360
FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our ...January 11, 2019Innovative data spurs healthcare delivery in Africa
Application of innovativedata is helping four countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to improve primary healthcare delivery, a new report has revealed. According to the WHO, primary healthcare ...January 7, 2019South African e-health startup BusyMed received support from LionPride
South African e-health startup BusyMed has raised an undisclosed amount of growth funding from local venture capital firm LionPride to help it commercialise ...May 27, 2018TSRI scientists describe severe immune overreaction caused by flu infections
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have mapped key elements of a severe immune overreaction—a “cytokine storm”—that can both sicken and kill ...February 28, 2014New procedure offers benefits for patients with severe asthma
Like millions of people, Jeannine Childs suffers from asthma. But unlike most, her asthma was debilitating. For years she struggled with wheezing, ...February 28, 2014Researchers develop new method for anthrax detection in few hours
Shortly following the 9/11 terror attack in 2001, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to news outlets and government buildings killing five ...February 28, 2014Silver nanoparticles in dietary supplements, cosmetics and food packaging can cause damage to cells
Endocrine disrupters are not the only worrying chemicals that ordinary consumers are exposed to in everyday life. Also nanoparticles of silver, found ...February 28, 2014
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