Chad hepatitis E outbreak: how the dangerous liver disease spreads and how it can be treated: The World Health Organization recently announced an outbreak of hepatitis E in the eastern Ouaddai province of Chad. Between January and April 2024, 2,093 suspected hepatitis E cases were reported from two health districts. The Conversation Africa asked Kolawole …
‘I couldn’t stand the pain’: the Turkish holiday resort that’s become an emergency dental centre for Britons who can’t get treated at home: This clinic in the Turkish resort of Antalya is the official 'dental sponsor' of the Miss England competition. Diana Ibanez-Tirado, Author provided It’s a hot summer day in the Turkish city of …
Everything Now: eating disorder recovery is treated with sensitivity and nuance in Netflix comedy drama: Netflix couldn’t have chosen a more resonant title than Everything Now for their new comedy drama series. When I came out of a residential clinic in 2009 for treatment of anorexia, I did a parachute jump, started volunteering and decided …
Crypto trading: politicians who say it should be treated like gambling are completely wrong: No ifs or bits. Ground Picture Cryptocurrency trading should be regulated in the same way as gambling, according to the UK parliamentary select committee in charge of scrutinising finance. The committee published a report arguing that this was necessary because digital …
Ukraine war: why Russians fleeing conscription should be treated as refugees: People fleeing across borders is a hallmark of armed conflict. We first saw millions of Ukrainians flee the country when the Russians invaded Ukraine in February this year. Now there are reports of hundreds of thousands of Russians fleeing their country in order to …
Media deference to the royals must have a limit – just look at how Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson were treated: King Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson on holiday in Yugoslavia Britain’s period of national mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth underlined the reverence with which many in the UK regard the royal family. …
Personalised medicine made in hospitals can revolutionise the way diseases are treated – the challenge now will be implementing it: Manufacturing a treatment this way would mean patients could get their treatment faster. Gorodenkoff/ Shutterstock Imagine a patient with a rare genetic disorder that makes their arms and legs have imprecise and slow movements. For …
Widows in Nigeria are sometimes treated badly: culture is no excuse to violate rights: Widows in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Photo by Aminu Abubakar/AFP/Getty Images Nigeria is home to about 15 million of the world’s 258 million widows. Widowhood in an ethnically and religiously diverse country like Nigeria, with three major ethnic groups …
Like COVID, TB is a pandemic and must be treated as an emergency: Operating in crisis mode for COVID-19, TB, or any other health catastrophe is difficult to sustain. Seyllou/AFP via Getty Images In 1993, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) a global public health emergency. It urged nations to coordinate efforts to …
South Africa in the news: Cop ransacks Sprout Lake camp • Lee Zeldin treated for leukemia • Sukkah in the city: An off-duty New York City police officer has been arrested after he allegedly broke into Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake on the second day of Rosh Hashanah and vandalized the Dutchess County property. ( …
South Africa in the news: Haiti ex-president Aristide being treated for Covid in Cuba: Haitian ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who is battling Covid-19 at the age of 68, has arrived in Cuba for medical treatment, Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise has announced.: “South Africa” – BingNews Covid-19: Germany bans most travellers from Portugal, Russia over Delta variant: …
South Africa in the news: Dawn raids victim says Pacific people in NZ were treated like ‘Jewish people in Nazi era’: A victim of the dawn raids has likened the treatment Pacific people in New Zealand faced in the 1970s as similar to what happened to “Jewish people in the Nazi era”. However, Pacific Panthers …
Treated like dirt: urban soil is often overlooked as a resource: In 2014, scientists studying the soil in Central Park were surprised at the vibrancy of the microbial life they discovered Roberto Nickson on Unsplash, FAL When you think about soil, you probably think of rolling fields of countryside. But what about urban soil? With city dwellers …
The role of bias in how women are treated during childbirth: a Kenyan case study: GettyImages Global maternal mortality is unacceptably high. Around 810 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. A number of factors drive maternal mortality. In developing countries it is often due to women not having access …
Whistle-blowers in South Africa are treated as pariahs in spite of their moral courage: Shutterstock Recent reports of the looting of relief funds meant for managing the COVID-19 pandemic have once again shone the spotlight on the abuse of power in South Africa. They beg the question as to how it can be prevented. Data …
Scotland and Wales are being treated as bystanders in a Brexit that doesn’t work for them: The UK officially left the EU in January 2020 but it currently remains within the framework of EU rules. This “transition period” finishes at the end of 2020. Although the UK has already left, the dilemma of deal or …
Understanding lupus, the disease treated by chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine: A chemist displays hydroxychloroquine tablets in Kolkata,India Photo by Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto via Getty Images Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine – until recently two fairly obscure drugs in the minds of the general public – have hit the headlines of late. This followed controversial statements by US president Donald …
Standards and open source: Why are patents treated differently?: Development of standards specifications and development of open source software have much in common: both are mechanisms by which competitors can collaborate; both can facilitate interoperability; both can be used to facilitate the adoption of new technologies; both can be used to crystallize or harmonize mature …