The Invisible Enemy Awareness Times Just when I thought our good old Sierra Leone could not sink any lower than the demeaning decade-long civil war that stripped us of able-bodied compatriots, along comes Ebola to show that there are depths lower than that low. | | Right now, no thanks to the dreaded virus, our streets and mort...
Ebola hits health care access for other diseases Star Telegram The Associated Press | MONROVIA, Liberia — The Ebola outbreak has spawned a "silent killer," experts say: hidden cases of malaria, pneumonia, typhoid and the like that are going untreated because people in the countries hardest hit by the dreaded virus either cannot find an open clinic or are ...
Ebola hits health care access for other diseases The Malta Independent The Ebola outbreak has spawned a "silent killer," experts say: hidden cases of malaria, pneumonia, typhoid and the like that are going untreated because people in the countries hardest hit by the dreaded virus either cannot find an open clinic or are...
Ursula Owusu And Oko Vanderpuye Team Up To Educate Community Peace FM Online The Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA) has organized a public forum with residents of Glefe Community in Ablekuma West to discuss planned demolition of unauthorized structures, road construction and sanitation issues. | The forum was also to create a...
Ebola is More Than Medical Challenge, Experts Say Voa News Anita Powell | South Africa knows all too well how it feels to watch a disease rampage through once-healthy communities, to watch the illness divide society and trigger shame, fear and panic, and to be shunned by the rest of the world. | And so as th...
Spike recorded in water-borne diseases The Times Of India AHMEDABAD: The heath department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has released a health report for the first week of November and has registered 144 cases of diarrhoea and vomiting in city. Areas like Behrampura, Gomtipur, Saraspur, Rakhial, Kuberna...
Volta Region Making Giant Strides In MDGs Four & Five Peace FM Online Dr Joseph Teye Nuertey, Volta Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has disclosed that the region was making giant strides towards the accomplishment of the Millennium Development Goals Four and Five (MDGs 4&5) indicators using its ins...
Relatives of Ebola Patients Criticize Sierra Leone Hospitals Voa News Reuters | FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE— | Relatives of Ebola patients in Sierra Leone on Saturday criticized hospitals for rejecting sick people and not moving fast enough to tackle the outbreak. | Earlier this week, the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency ...
A dash of Flavier humor Sun Star THE trouble with interspersing humor with message is your listeners will remember the joke and tend to forget the message. | Dr. Juan Flavier, the beloved giant communicator of humor and message, wit and wisdom, never fell into the trap lesser mortal...
Ethical way to stop Ebola The Dallas Morning News Re: “Dallas assesses Ebola lessons — News-sponsored forum at UTD brings together officials, science writers,” Thursday Metro story.Related | Politicizing Ebola crisis | On the front lines of Ebola crisis | Ebola in Dallas | The crisis in Da...
As Ebola infections drop, Liberian capital reawakens Sun Sentinel On a dirt field between two tall plum trees, barefoot young women played a surprisingly ferocious game of kickball one evening this week. Sweating in the heat and humidity despite the approach of dusk, they battled with the pent-up energy of teens wh...
Sierra Leone News: The Invisible Enemy Awoko Just when I thought our good old Sierra Leone could not sink any lower than the demeaning decade-long civil war that stripped us of able-bodied compatriots had lowered us, along came Ebola to show that there are depths lower than that low. | Right no...
Epidigitalogy: Surveying For Digital Diseases Like An Epidemiologist Forbes By Efrain Ortiz, Director – Market and Technology Innovation, Symantec | It seems that every day brings news of a new devastating piece of malware or a data breach. Sadly, most of these reports state that the malware or breach had begun months, if ...
Many young weight-loss surgery patients 'super-obese' BBC News Nearly 40% of under-25s who have weight-loss surgery in the UK are classified as super-obese, according to new figures. | Surgeons say this is evidence of "a clear failure of strategies to prevent weight gain in young people". | Overall, more patients are having weight-loss surgery and, on average, they are getting more obese and more ill...
Gates Boosts Malaria Funding By 30% The Daily Beast Tiksa Negeri/Reuters | Bill Gates says his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will increase its anti-malaria program budget by 30 percent, to more than $200 million per year, in an effort to end malaria in his lifetime. The boost is on top of the foundation's other donations to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Gates says hi...
