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Invest in healthcare, digital medical training, doctors urge FG, states
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (436+ words) The West African College of Physicians on Saturday urged the Federal Government and state governments to adopt sustainable healthcare financing, strengthen medical training infrastructure and embrace affordable digital technologies to address challenges affecting Nigeria’s health sector. The college made the…...
TWiV 1339: Ebola up close with Tom Ksiazek|This Week in Virology — BigGo Finance
8+ hour, 37+ min ago (502+ words) Infection‑control challenges — Many health workers are on strike over unpaid wages, supplies of chlorine disinfectant are unreliable, and the security situation prevents international staff from deploying. "Because of this security situation, you won't be seeing official Americans in the…...
Operational Mechanics of Scale in Ebola Clinical Trials — Weddings
10+ hour, 28+ min ago (274+ words) Evaluating therapeutics under outbreak conditions requires breaking down the trial operations into three interdependent vectors. Failure in any single vector invalidates the data or halts patient enrollment entirely. Classic fixed-sample clinical trials are unethical and impractical during an unpredictable epidemic....
WHO Issues Chilling Warning: Cancer Cases Are Exploding Globally
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (274+ words) The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a chilling warning that cancer cases are exploding around the world, with the disease expected to soon affect more than 90 percent of the global population. The WHO said cancer remains the world’s second-leading…...
We aim to further improve the General Health System, Spokesman says
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NSRI Gqeberha: A maritime medical emergency evacuation operation:
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (123+ words) the National Sea Rescue Institute NSRI Gqeberha: A maritime medical emergency evacuation operation: NSRI Gqeberha duty crew were activated following reports from TNPA Port of Port Elizabeth Port Control of an urgent request for a medical emergency response At 04h20, Sunday,…...
Last U.S. polio patient with an iron lung dies at 78 in Oklahoma
7+ hour, 17+ min ago (588+ words) East Meadow, N.Y.: Sara Sheard, R.N., a staff nurse at Meadowbrook Hospital in East Meadow, New York, examines one of the three iron lungs brought to the facility to deal with the polio epidemic on August 3, 1949. Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when…...
Keystone Health Shares Hantavirus Prevention and Safety Guidance
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (763+ words) People can become infected through contact with rodent urine, droppings or saliva. Infection through a rodent bite or scratch is possible but rare. The Andes virus is the only known hantavirus that can spread from person to person, usually through…...
Latin America and the Caribbean Face HIV’s Comeback Warning Lights | NIA
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (465+ words) New UNAIDS data show HIV infections are rising in Latin America. At the same time, the Caribbean improves, exposing a divided regional epidemic shaped by inequality, stigma, funding cuts, and fragile health systems that could turn manageable progress into another…...
One dengue patient dies, 350 hospitalised in 24hrs
9+ hour, 54+ min ago (153+ words) One person died of dengue in the country in the 24 hours between 8am yesterday and 8am today (12 July), while 350 new patients were admitted to hospitals during the same period, according to the latest dengue situation report. The information was disclosed in a…...