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Breaking News Fri, 27 Jan 2012
After studying chimpanzees in the wilds of Tanzania's Mahale Mountains National Park for the past year as part of a National Science Foundation grant, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine researcher Taranjit Kaur and her team have produced powerful scientific evidence that chimpanzees are becoming sick from viral infectious diseases they have likely contracted from humans.
(photo: US NSF / Taranjit Kaur, Virginia Tech)
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...
The dirty diplomat: Niger consul 'threatened, grabbed and flashed colleague at private hospital'
The Daily Mail
| Allegations: Dr Chuma Igbowke, Niger's official consul to Britain, is said to have made indecent proposals to a woman at a private hospital | An African diplomat working as a doctor in Britain sexually harassed and exposed himself to a secretary, a...
The LWOT: Two NJ men arrested on the way to fight in Somalia; Report alleges doctors complicit in enhanced interrogations
Foreign Policy
| Two New Jersey men arrested on the way to fight in Somalia | Federal authorities at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday arrested two New Jersey men, Mohammed Alessa and Eduardo Almonte, alleging that they were on their way ...
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...
Africa News
Somali refugee children share a meal inside a tent in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia.  Fleeing drought and famine in their home country, thousands of Somalis have taken up residence across the border in Dollo Ado
(photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe)
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...
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Pills, Medicines, Drugs
(photo: Creative Commons / e-MagineArt.com)
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...



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