MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'botswana'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:16 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3899638&cid=t_136481_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F8iE8rWOFbhk%2F Hello, everyone, how are you today? Unfortunately, it is another cloudy morning in New England, where we are visiting to speak at the American Chemical Society annual gathering (please look here). Nonetheless, our spirits are sunny and we are keeping as busy as ever. So please join us for a cup of stimulation as we scan the news of the world. Hope your day goes well and do stay in touch… Sanofi-Aventis CEO And His Challenges (The Financial Times) Roche Inks Deal With Aileron For Stapled Peptides (The New York Times) Another 115 Pfizer Workers To Lose Their Jobs (The Times Herald-Record) Novo Nordisk To Test Victoza To Fight Obesity (Dow Jones) UK’s NICE Rejects Avastin Again (PharmaTimes) Pfizer’s Sutent Fails To Meet Goal In Lung Study (Bloomberg News) Merck Foundation A... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3899638 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:37:31 +0100 3899638 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1289804&cid=t_136481_10_f&fid=35345&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gideononline.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F03%2F09%2Foutbreaks-of-hepatitis-e-in-sub-saharan-africa-are-rarely-reported%2F As reported in ProMED: Notwithstanding the recent episode in Uganda [see: ProMED-mail post Hepatitis E virus - Uganda 20080304.0894], outbreaks of hepatitis E in Sub-Saharan Africa are rarely reported. The following summary was abstracted from GIDEON. Botswana 1985 - An outbreak (245 cases) in Maun was ascribed to possible water contamination. Central African Republic 2002 - An outbreak (48 confirmed cases) in Bangui may have been caused by contaminated drinking water. 2004 - An outbreak (10 cases) in Bangui was caused by contaminated water sold by a street vendor. Chad 2004 - An outbreak (1442 cases, 46 fatal) was reported in Goz Amer and Goz Beida - Sudanese refugee camps. 2005 - An outbreak (50 or more fatal cases) was reported in the area of Goz Beida (eastern Chad). (more…) Sha... GIDEON blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1289804 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:20:19 +0100 1289804 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1081618&cid=t_136481_135_f&fid=35273&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogswana.org%2F2007%2F12%2F09%2Fblogswana-chipin-widget-for-fundraising%2F We have created a ChipIn account to raise money for a “field trip” to Botswana to conduct blogging seminars at the University of Botswana for interested students and faculty. This is a kind of “pilot project” for the larger Blogswana project. This site will not host a copy of the widget until we migrate it to our own servers, which we’re hoping to do soon. So, if you would like to donate, visit the Chipin widget on the Committee to Protect Bloggers site, visit the Blogswana ChipIn page, or click here. If you would like to help us distribute the fundraising, please make a copy of the Botswana project widget here, or by clicking on “Copy” on the widget, and post. If you are a Facebook user, you can either contribute or post the widget on your Faceboo... Blogswana blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1081618 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:51:13 +0100 1081618 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=915414&cid=t_136481_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F163271037%2F Finished the chores? Curling up with a cup of coffee? Trying to relax? Then the time has come to catch up on events. Here are a few items to enjoy before you head off to pick some apples or talk a walk in the park… Drugmakers often complain their good deeds go unnoticed, or worse. So Time magazine has run a piece about Merck’s efforts to provide HIV meds in Botswana. The drugmaker wins praise from its partner, the government and Gates Foundation, although the mag doesn’t bother to ask one of the NGOs, or non-governmental organizations, for a quick comment. Novartis ceo Dan Vasella, who has felt the sting of rejected drugs more than once lately, complains that the FDA has become politicized. “The FDA has become subject to politics. If they are assailed like they are ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=915414 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:02:19 +0100 915414 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=773363&cid=t_136481_135_f&fid=35263&url=http%3A%2F%2Fronhudson.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fyour-old-prescription-glasses-are.html I found this heartbreaking post on the Nata Village Blog of Botswana recently and contacted Melody Jenkins of the group that publishes the blog. She and I discussed the need for prescription glasses (including sunglasses) for the elderly in her village and I decided to send out an appeal to you to donate any old prescription glasses that you might have around your home for these beautiful people. If you have some old glasses that you can part with, please bundle them up carefully and mail them directly to the village at the following address:Nata Village Prescription Glassesc/o Melody JenkinsBox 144Nata Village, Botswana, AfricaPlease pass the link to this post around so that we can help as many people as possible. I sent off 6 pairs of prescription glasses last week that were sitting in a... 2sides2ron blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=773363 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:57:00 +0100 773363