This smartphone-sized device can diagnose cancer in 20 minutes The Guardian A startup has invented a DNA analyzer that could potentially revolutionize healthcare in the developing world | This content is supported by sponsors. | Advances in disease diagnostics now offer clinicians a staggering degree of accuracy. But access ...
MEC Magome Masike Leads Door to Door Health Awareness Programme in Cyferskuil All Africa [SA Govt] North West Health MEC, Dr. Magome Masike will lead teams of health promoters and community health workers in a door to door on Friday, 22 April 2016 in the village of Cyferskuil, Moretele Municipality to raise awareness on sexually transmit...
Potential high-risk area designated for bovine tuberculosis The Oklahoman ROGERS CITY, Mich. (AP) — Officials say a potential high-risk area for bovine tuberculosis has been designated in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula. | The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development says Wednesday that the update com...
Partnerships Prove Crucial in Times of Emergency All Africa [WFP] Phillip Pemba -To combat escalating malnutrition rates, the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID), is funding WFP and UNICEF to ensure comprehensive nutrition treatment services are available for children and pregnant...
Lifestyle ailments Mumbai's biggest killer The Times Of India Mumbai: With demanding work schedules and volatile environmental changes, it's hardly shocking that lifestyle ailments continue to be Mumbai's most lethal killer. For the 15th year in a row, coronary heart diseases have topped this list, with almost ...
Where are the Rohingya boat survivors now? irinnews When Malaysia allowed hundreds of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants abandoned by their smugglers and left adrift on the Andaman Sea to come ashore last May, it marked the end of a regional diplomatic stalemate that had left thousands of lives in the ...
Giant Rats Sniff Out TB in Mozambique, Tanzania All Africa [SciDev.Net] A technology that relies on trained African giant pouched rats - named HeroRATS - to sniff out tuberculosis (TB) and diagnose the disease faster than conventional diagnostic methods is helping save lives in Mozambique and Tanzania. ... ...
TB case at Santaluces: One student treated, health officials say Palm Beach Post A Santaluces High School student has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, and Palm Beach County’s health authorities said Wednesday they are working with school officials to make sure anyone who came in close with the student is tested for the disease...
