insights from industryRizwana MiaSenior Program ManagerSouth African Medical Research Council In this interview, Rizwana Mia, the Senior Program Manager at South African Medical Research Council, ...
In Divining Without Seeds, Iruka Okeke provides a clear overview on the evolution, current status and future role of laboratory medicine in African clinical practice. She shares her own life ...
Cyril Naidoo stands at the front of a crowded conference room, talking about a concept in family medicine called the iceberg theory. “When a patient comes to us with a headache, our job is to try and ...
COLUMBIA, Mo. ¬— Described as a hotspot of botanical diversity, there are more than 20,000 indigenous plant species in South Africa. Several thousand of them are used by traditional healers every day ...
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A South African entrepreneur who designed a smart locker system that improves access to healthcare has won a major award for African engineering. Neo Hutiri is the creator of Pelebox, a system of ...
Registrar of Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board, Babatunde Adele, yesterday urged stakeholders in traditional medicine to improve research, and properly document their work. He said this is ...
Geneticist Dr. Esteban Burchard was studying asthma at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston years ago when, he recalled, “a black teenager died of an asthma attack right outside the hospital ...
African-Americans have historically received less-than-optimal medical care, in part because they don’t trust physicians or the health care system. They come by this distrust honestly: think of the ...