Free ambulance service halves pregnancy-related deaths in rural Ethiopia
An operational assessment of a national free ambulance services programme reveals a drastic reduction in…
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Ghanaian Scientists honoured for role in meningitis vaccine development
A group of Ghanaian scientists — Abraham Hodgson, Abudulai Adams Forgor (deceased), Fred Binka, Patrick…
Ebola survivors suffer long-term health effects
Preliminary studies of Ebola survivors in West Africa are showing that those who survived the…
Material enables more reliable and meaningful self-screening
Paper-based diagnostics enable rapid medical test results at minimal cost — and now they’re about…
Digital hub to help Africa track and control disease outbreaks to be based in Egypt
A new disease control hub is set to be launched in Egypt, which will use…
Detecting acute flaccid paralysis clusters provides early warning on polio outbreaks
An early-warning system based on statistical modelling that maps occurrences of the most common symptom…
London School of Tropical Medicine-led researchers publish findings from lung health study
A team of investigators led from the London School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has published…
Gap in malaria treatment for pregnant women
The proportion of pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa receiving preventive measures such as intermittent preventive…
Possible mechanism explains increased HIV risk caused by progestin-only contraceptives
Recent findings published in The Lancet showed that injectable progestin-only contraceptives and high endogenous progesterone…
New method can tell if infant was born prematurely
Scientists have developed a new method to estimate a newborn’s gestational age just using a…