Chimpanzees may be learning medical know how from watching elders Newstrack India | London, Jan 7 (ANI): Chimpanzees may be using a watch and learn approach when it comes to recognizing medicinal plants like their elders, according to new findings by scientists. | Shelly Masi of France's National Museum of Natural History in Paris and colleagues observed 44 wild chimpanzee...
Byumba Hospital Medics Cleared of Malpractice All Africa New Times (Kigali)-An investigative team appointed by the Minister of Health, Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, has cleared doctors at Byumba Hospital of any suspicion of medical malpractice after doctors found three gloves, a syringe and cotton wool inside a wom...
NDC Group Warns Gov't: Haul Kufuor, Akufo Addo...Before EOCO Or Else... Peace FM Online A pro-government group calling itself Concerned Members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has given the government up to Friday to arrest and compel officials of the Kufuor administration to appear before the Economic and Organised Crime Offi...
R1m bid over loss of hearing Independent online A Gugulethu man has instituted a R920 000 damages action in the Western Cape High Court, claiming that he went deaf following TB treatment at a city clinic. | Ntobeko Reginald Makeleni, 41, alleges in papers filed at the high court that both ears hav...
Health insurance clients compelled to pay for drugs Ghana Business News | Clients of the Ho Municipal Mutual Health Insurance scheme have to pay for drugs under the scheme through suspected manipulation by some service providers and below-the-market-price quotations by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). | Th...
One million children in Sahel at risk, UNICEF warns The Star | GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 1 million children in the Sahel are at risk of severe malnutrition and urgent action is needed to avert starvation akin to that in Somalia, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday. | The agency appealed for $67 million for 8 countries in the region where it said instability fuelled by increasing a...
Fake malaria drugs could 'put millions at risk' Joy Online Fake and poor quality anti-malarial drugs are threatening efforts to control the disease in Africa and could put millions of lives at risk, scientists say. | The counterfeit medicines could harm patients and promote drug resistance among malaria parasites, warns the study, funded by the Wellcome Trust. | Malaria is believed to kill about 800,000 pe...
