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South Sudan: Minister for Health Meets Lainya Delegation
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[GoSS]
Juba -
The national minister for Health Hon Dr Michael Milli Hussein last week at the Ministry headquarters met a delegation of Lainya led by the paramount chief Enosa Lucky Yona. The delegation was also accompanied by Hon Dousman, a member of National Legislative Assembly. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Egypt: Interior Ministry Promises to Send Mubarak to TorahEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Aswat Masriya]
Minister of Interior, Mohamed Ibrahim, has promised to transfer former President Hosni Mubarak to Torah prison hospital, which is currently being medically prepped, as soon as a court order is issued. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Egypt: Parliament Speaker - Proposal to Transfer Mubarak AcceptedEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Aswat Masriya]
The Ministry of Interior has accepted the proposal to transfer former President, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, to Torah prison hospital, said Mohamed Saad Al-Katatni, speaker of the newly-elected People's Assembly. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Kenya: NHIF Now Targets Informal SectorEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Capital FM]
Nairobi, Kenya -
The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) will by the end of this month roll out yet another comprehensive health scheme, this time targeting the informal sector. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda: Malnutrition Hits Nakapiripirit, Napak DistrictsEmail this article to a colleague.
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[New Vision]
Malnutrition, affecting both childrena and adults, has hit two districts in Karamoja sub region, stateminister for disaster preparedness and relief, Musa Ecweru has revealed. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Tanzania: Government Allays Fears On Malaria Deaths ReportEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Citizen]
Dar es Salaam -
The government said yesterday that the country is on the right path to drastically reduce malaria deaths despite a new global report showing that the disease kills twice as many people as earlier thought. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: How to Win Battle Against Killer Polio - ExpertsEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Vanguard]
Paediatricians say Nigeria can achieve a polio-free generation. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Kenya: Meru Fights Aids StigmaEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Nairobi Star]
Men living with HIV/Aids have beenurged to help in the fight against stigma. The men have been urged to join People Living with HIV/AIDS support groups in their areas. Methodist Church, Kaaga Synod HIV/AIDSProgram Manager Florence Murugu said men abhor coming out and joining supportgroups due to fear of losing their status in the society once they go public. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Kenya: State Must Invest in Healthcare Facilities - ReportEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Capital FM]
Nairobi, Kenya -
A taskforce set up to look into the issue of strengthening health services following the December strike by doctors wants the government to finance a three year health stimulus package to improve the poor state of public health facilities. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Tanzania: Bunge Team to Probe Doctors' StrikeEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily News]
Dodoma -
The Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Mr Job Ndugai (Kongwa-CCM), has urged striking doctors to resume work. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Govt to 'Export' Jobless Nurses - MinisterEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Zimbabwe Standard]
GOVERNMENT is working on modalities to "export" unemployed nurses to work in other countries, mostly in the Sadc region. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Namibia: Mother Distances Herself From Financial AppealEmail this article to a colleague.
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[New Era]
Windhoek -
The mother of 13-year-old Jade Sinead Abrahams who has a cancerous brain tumour, has distanced herself from a newspaper report in which the teenager's father requested the public for financial assistance for an operation. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: HIV Treatment Vaccine Expected in Five Years - InstituteEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily Trust]
The Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria (IHVN), says vaccine for treatment of Human Immuno-deficiency Virus that causes AIDS, may be available in the next five years. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Light At the End of Tunnel for Eliminating NTDsEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Vanguard]
Though much of the world has never heard of diseases like lymphatic filariasis or schistosomiasis, these and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a daily reality for many living in Africa and across the world. These terrible diseases affect more than one billion people worldwide, disabling, disfiguring and blinding their victims, and making it difficult for the world's poorest communities to lift themselves out of poverty. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Father of Girl Born Without Hands and Legs Says She Is a Gift From GodEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Vanguard]
The birth of a new child is usually an occasion for celebrations but for the family of Ahmadu Didda, a peasant farmer from Dunomari village in Zaki Local Government Area of Bauchi State, the arrival of a very strange baby girl on January 13, 2012, was greeted with sorrow. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Angola: Education Ministry to Analyse HIV/Aids Fight StrategyEmail this article to a colleague.
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[ANGOP]
Luanda -
The Ministry of Education (MED) will run a workshop from February 6-8 in Luanda to review and draft a Strategic Plan to fight Hiv/Aids and the great endemic diseases in the sector, Angop learned Friday here. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Swept From Africa to the Amazon (preview)Email this article to a colleague.
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The Bodele depression at the southern edge of the Sahara is a fearsome, forsaken place. Winds howl through the nearby Tebesti Mountains and Ennedi Plateau, picking up speed as they funnel into a parched wasteland nearly the size of California. Once there was a massive freshwater lake here. Now the lake is a shrunken puddle of its former self. Across most of the landscape, there is nothing. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - February 6, 2012 Category: Science Tags: Energy & Sustainability,Environment,Physics,Climate,More Science,Science Education,Archaeology Paleontology,Everyday Science Source Type: research
Spectacular Plumes of Dust Reach Across the WorldEmail this article to a colleague.
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We don't hear too much about natural dust, the kind that the winds loft from deserts and dry lakebeds into the air and carries for hundreds of kilometers, crossing oceans and continents, but we should. Plumes of dust connect the atmosphere, the oceans and the forests, and affect the most fundamental processes of life on our planet. Scientists believe that dust has profound and somewhat mysterious influences on atmospheric chemistry, solar heat exchange and nutrient supply to the oceans and rain forests. What those influences are, exactly, is the subject of much study and is still somewhat mysterious--the story of dust ...
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - February 6, 2012 Category: Science Tags: Energy & Sustainability,Society Policy,More Science,Environment,Everyday Science Source Type: research
Tunisia: Radio Zitouna Accused of Airing Politicized ContentEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Tunisia Live]
Tunisia's Islamic radio station, Zitouna FM, has been recently accused of infusing its normally purely religious content with social and even political subject matter since the revolution. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Kenya: Each Constituency Needs Ambulance - TaskforceEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Capital FM]
Nairobi -
The government has been asked to set up the Kenya National Ambulance Services within each county and a central coordinating office at the national level within the next two years. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Typhoid Exposes City CouncilEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Financial Gazette]
The recent outbreak of typhoid within the capital city, Harare, has brought with it immeasurable stress to both communities and the still-unwholesome public health delivery system, which is likely to be overwhelmed by a likely degeneration of the current crisis due to lack of urgency by government and local authorities in dealing with the scourge. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Global Fund Cancellation Jeopardises Health SectorEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Financial Gazette]
THE termination of funding by the Global Fund could jeopardise Zimbabwe's under-funded health sector in the next two years, stakeholders cautioned this week, amid fears of a reversal in the gains achieved against the HIV and Aids scourge, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, especially in the rural areas. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
More Communities in Senegal Disavow Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting - 31 January 2012Email this article to a colleague.
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PATA, Senegal -- As Senegal edges closer to becoming the first African country to fully abandon the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting, younger women are supporting campaigns to change social norms surrounding the practice. In Pata, a village in the Kolda region of southeastern Senegal near the Gambian border, a celebration in November drew a huge crowd to formally announce the decision of 69 communities in Kolda to stop cutting. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - February 6, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Nigeria: 17-Year-Old Mother Sells Two-Week-Old Baby for N20,000Email this article to a colleague.
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[Leadership]
The absurdity of child trading came to fore on Friday as a two-week old baby was sold by the mother, Blessing John, an SSS II student for a paltry N20,000 to one Mrs. Chikodili Jude of Mechanic Bye pass, Minna, Niger state. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Kenya: Firm Opposes Planned Chemical BanEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Nation]
A company has refuted claims that a chemical it relies on to manufacture pesticides causes cancer. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Kenya: New Strategy On HIV Funds Needs SupportEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Nation]
Last week, the Global Fund, the world's biggest donor in the fight against HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis celebrated its 10th birthday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Tanzania: Go Back to Work, Sheikh Urges DocsEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Citizen]
Dar -
The Muslim Council of Tanzania (Bakwata) in Dar es Salaam Region has urged striking medical doctors to resume work in order to save lives of innocent people. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Tanzania: Campaign Against Fistula Gets BoostEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Daily News]
VODACOM Tanzania in collaboration with CCBRT yesterday launched a nationwide campaign to raise more than 1bn/- from the public in support of maternal healthcare for women suffering from obstetric fistula. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda: Health Experts' Assessment of Male CircumcisionEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Monitor]
More than 600,000 Ugandan male have been circumcised since the Safe Male circumcision policy was introduced in Uganda in 2009 to consolidate the fight against HIV/Aids. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Paying for HealthEmail this article to a colleague.
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[AfricaFocus]
"Simply put, if we allow the fund to fail, many people will die, and we will forfeit the chance at the "AIDS-free generation" that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for in November. This is no time to step back." - Paul Farmer (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Identification Of Potential New Treatment For LeishmaniasisEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers at the University of Dundee have identified fexinidazole as a possible, much-needed, new treatment for the parasitic disease visceral leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is named after William Leishman, a Glasgwegian doctor serving with the British Army in India, who first identified the parasite in the early 1900s. The disease is the second biggest killer in Africa, Asia and Latin America after malaria, and affects 500,000 people, killing about 50-60,000 patients per year... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 6, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news
Sudan: Malaria, Malnutrition On the Rise After Violent ClashesEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Sudan Tribune]
Juba -
16-year old Nyayan Giet lies helpless on a metallic bed in a maternity ward at Walgak Primary Health Care Center (PHCC) as she quietly stares at at roof with no ceiling. Her husband and a relative closely monitor her condition. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Risk of Epidemic in Mozambique After the Recent FloodsEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Oxfam]
Tropical storm Dando and cyclone Funso affected more than 117,000 people and left 40 dead in Mozambique last week (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: 'More Typhoid Outbreaks Imminent'Email this article to a colleague.
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[The Herald]
Chinhoyi -
GOVERNMENT says the typhoid outbreak is under control, but is worried that some of the cases could have evolved to carrier state, making prospects of further outbreaks imminent. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Researchers examine consequences of non-intervention for infectious disease in African great apesEmail this article to a colleague.
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(University of California - Santa Barbara) Infectious disease has joined poaching and habitat loss as a major threat to the survival of African great apes as they have become restricted to ever-smaller populations. Despite the work of dedicated conservationists, efforts to save our closest living relatives from ecological extinction are largely failing, and new scientific approaches are necessary to analyze major threats and find innovative solutions. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 6, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Environmental M. ulcerans linked to incidence of Buruli ulcer in BeninEmail this article to a colleague.
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Research carried out in Benin in West Africa shows that environmental Mycobacterium ulcerans predicts prevalence of Buruli ulcer, a necrotizing skin disease common in subtropical countries. (Source: MedWire News - Dermatology)
Source: MedWire News - Dermatology - February 5, 2012 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
Today's mystery bird for you to identify | @GrrlScientistEmail this article to a colleague.
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This handsome Ethiopian mystery bird is placed into several taxonomic families, depending upon which authority you refer toMystery Bird photographed at Lalibela, northern Ethiopia (Africa). [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]Image: Dan Logen, 9 February 2011 (with permission) [velociraptorize].Nikon D300s, 200-400 mm lens at 400, f/5.6, 1/800 sec, ISO 800 Question: This handsome African mystery bird is endemic to Ethiopia and Eritrea. It also is placed into several taxonomic families, depending upon which authority you are referring to. Can you identify this mystery bird's taxonomic family(ies) and species?The ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 5, 2012 Category: Science Authors: GrrlScientist Tags: Science guardian.co.uk Blogposts Source Type: news
Complete deficiency of the sixth complement component (C6Q0), susceptibility to Neisseria meningitidis infections and analysis of the frequencies of C6Q0 gene defects in South Africans.Email this article to a colleague.
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Abstract
Complete complement component 6 deficiency (C6Q0) is a co-dominant genetic disease presenting as increased susceptibility to invasive Neisseria meningitidis infections. Affected individuals have two affected alleles which can be homozygous or compound heterozygous for the particular gene defects they carry. This disorder has been diagnosed relatively frequently in Western Cape South Africans. Affected patients are prescribed penicillin prophylaxis. In 2004 we commenced a clinical follow-up study of 46 patients. Of these, 43 had family age-matched C6 sufficient controls. Participants were classified as eith...
Source: Clinical and Developmental Immunology - February 5, 2012 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Orren A, Owen EP, Henderson HE, van der Merwe L, Leisegang F, Stassen C, Potter PC Tags: Clin Exp Immunol Source Type: research
ANC upholds Malema suspensionEmail this article to a colleague.
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An African National Congress appeals committee upholds a five-year suspension against youth league leader Julius Malema (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - February 5, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Piltdown Man: British archaeology's greatest hoax | Robin McKieEmail this article to a colleague.
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Discussion of the Piltdown Skull, by John Cooke, presents its discoverers in an almost holy atmosphere. Keith is seated while Smith Woodward stands behind him in front of a table with pieces of skull on it. Also standing, with a picture of Charles Darwin behind him, is the benign figure of Charles Dawson. "The way the painting is structured suggests Darwin is passing on his mantle to Dawson," says Russell. "The former had the theory, the latter had provided it, it is being suggested."Certainly, the Wizard of Sussex had come far. He was now feted as one of the world's greatest archaeologists and would have been knighte...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 4, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Robin McKie Tags: Archaeology Evolution Science Arthur Conan Doyle Books Culture UK news The Observer Features Source Type: news
Peter Seeberger: we can treat malaria for lessEmail this article to a colleague.
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Artemisinin is the most effective malaria treatment yet discovered. Peter Seeberger has found a way to to make it from the waste products of its current manufactureArtemisinin, a drug extracted from the sweet wormwood plant, is the most effective treatment for malaria ever discovered. Every year, millions of doses of artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) are donated to Africa and Asia, greatly reducing the worldwide burden of the parasitical disease. But extracting artemisinin is expensive and because it takes time to cultivate the plant there are often bottlenecks in supply.But Peter H Seeberger, the director of the Ma...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 4, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Mark Honigsbaum Tags: Malaria Medical research Chemistry Infectious diseases Microbiology Science The Observer Features Interviews Technology Source Type: news
Test–retest reliability of the Xhosa version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusion The results of this study suggest that the test–retest reliability of the Xhosa version of the DISC‐IV is similar to the reliability reported in other translated versions of the instrument. The satisfactory reliability and straightforward application make this instrument suitable for use in South Africa. (Source: Child: Care, Health and Development)
Source: Child: Care, Health and Development - February 4, 2012 Category: Child Development Authors: A. J. FlisherK. R. SorsdahlC. Lund Source Type: research
Mystery bird: blue pitta, Hydrornis cyanea | @GrrlScientistEmail this article to a colleague.
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This southeast Asian mystery bird is atypical amongst those species with similar habits (includes gorgeous video!) Blue pitta, Hydrornis cyanea, (protonym, Pitta cyanea) Blyth, 1843, also known as the lesser blue pitta, photographed at the Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Chaiyaphum, Thailand. Image: Alex Vargas, 10 January 2012 (with permission) [velociraptorize].Nikon D5000, Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR 1/10s f/5.6 at 420.0mm iso500, With a Kenko 1.4X Teleconverter on. Question: This southeast Asian mystery bird is atypical amongst those species with similar habits. Can you tell me in what way it is atypical? Can you i...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 4, 2012 Category: Science Authors: GrrlScientist Tags: Science guardian.co.uk Blogposts Source Type: news
[Articles] Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysisEmail this article to a colleague.
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Our findings show that the malaria mortality burden is larger than previously estimated, especially in adults. There has been a rapid decrease in malaria mortality in Africa because of the scaling up of control activities supported by international donors. Donor support, however, needs to be increased if malaria elimination and eradication and broader health and development goals are to be met. (Source: LANCET)
Source: LANCET - February 4, 2012 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Christopher JL Murray, Lisa C Rosenfeld, Stephen S Lim, Kathryn G Andrews, Kyle J Foreman, Diana Haring, Nancy Fullman, Mohsen Naghavi, Rafael Lozano, Alan D Lopez Tags: Articles Source Type: research
West Africa: Yellow Fever Outbreaks Hit Cameroon and GhanaEmail this article to a colleague.
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[UN News]
The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least seven people. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 3, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Highest-ever levels of multi-drug-resistant TB revealed | Sarah BoseleyEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study ought to give further impetus to the drive to find them.TB is an area that I know the IHME will be addressing before long, as part of its project, which has taken five years of work so far, to get the best possible handle on global mortality rates from all causes. They have tackled maternal mortality – their study showed it was lower than thought at a third of a million rather than half a million a year – and given us the first global data on breast and cervical cancer. Since their director Christopher Murray has been studying TB for 30 years, expect some interesting data from that quarter at some point.The ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 3, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Tags: Tuberculosis Malaria Drug resistance Infectious diseases guardian.co.uk Blogposts Society Source Type: news
Africa: Study - Malaria Death Toll Nearly Twice the Official Count, Kills Many AdultsEmail this article to a colleague.
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[KPLU]
A new global estimate of malaria deaths by researchers in Seattle has revealed the death toll is much greater than most experts had thought -- and is not, as had been universally assumed, mostly a killer of children. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 3, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Malaria Kills Twice As Many People As Previously Thought, Research FindsEmail this article to a colleague.
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[Guardian Network]
Dateline -
Malaria kills twice as many people every year as formerly believed, taking 1.2 million lives and causing the deaths not only of babies but also older children and adults, according to research that overturns decades of assumptions about one of the world's most lethal diseases. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 3, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Big Biotech and Big Pharma: no place to hide?Email this article to a colleague.
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The importance of continued pressure amid European corporate pullouts (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - February 3, 2012 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Adam Tags: biotech brazil brics china drugs EU europe GM GMO gmos india international pharma pharmaceuticals russia south africa Source Type: news
Zoos tighten security as threat of animal poaching growsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Despite its size, many feel the illegal trade in wildlife is not getting the attention or resources it deservesOpening the door to the animal house, passing a rhino on the way and patting the giraffe inside, Sarah Forsyth points out small white boxes that dot the walls. "Everywhere you look there's a detector or a motion sensor," she says, chuckling in front of one that presented the security firm with a peculiarly zoo-specific problem. "These are the ones the giraffe were licking."She can laugh about it now, but two months ago, when Colchester zoo decided to put in place its new £300,000 alarm system, Forsyth's overridin...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 3, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Lizzy Davies Tags: Illegal wildlife trade Environment Animal welfare Animals World news Zoology Science Crime UK news The Guardian Source Type: news
