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3D printers get Ugandan amputees back on their feet

An orthopedic technology specialist assembles a 3D-printed artificial limb at the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services Uganda (CORSU) in Wakiso. Doctors amputated Ugandan schoolboy Jesse Ayebazibwe’s right leg when he was hit by a truck while walking home from school three years

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UN health goals ageist and undermine ‘health as a right for all’, say experts

United Nations plan to reduce premature mortality would render the over-70s ‘second-class citizens’, academics tell the Lancet Professor Peter Lloyd-Sherlock said the target would ‘reinforce the ageist bias that pervades many aspects of health care decision-making’. Photograph: Portra Images/Getty Images

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Comment: Mother and child health must improve

Increasing access to health services will prevent many mothers and newborn babies from dying. As a young journalist in Johannesburg in the early 1990s, I wrote a story about South Africa’s looming HIV crisis, citing predictions from epidemiologists that, without

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The Use of Electronic Health Records

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WHO declares Liberia Ebola-free

A man walks past an Ebola campaign banner in Monrovia. (Pic: AFP) The UN health agency on Saturday declared Liberia Ebola-free, hailing the “monumental” achievement in the west African country where the virus has killed more than 4 700 people.

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Tense debate over ethics of trial on link between HIV, contraception

Health experts are at loggerheads over research that raises questions about the possible link between the contraceptive injection and HIV. International researchers are struggling to settle a 25-year-old debate about the risk of HIV infection in women who use the

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Google robots for the operating theatre

The robots will help minimize trauma and damage to the patient by aiding surgeons in minimally invasive operations, giving operators greater accuracy. Surgical robots using artificial intelligence technologies are being developed by Google as part of a deal between the

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The very first human trial of a new approach to cancer treatment has scientists excited

A human melanoma cell line. Two of the most promising recent approaches to cancer treatment are immunotherapy, which harnesses the body’s own immune system to fight cancer, and personalized medicine, which involves therapeutics that are targeted to the genome of

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Kampala is seizing TB by the horns

A private-public partnership is gaining ground in the fight against the disease in the city’s slums. Down a side street in Kawempe division, one of five districts that make up Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, two women chat behind a ramshackle wooden

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Office space – the primary health frontier of any enterprise

Without good lighting, plants and privacy, the open-plan office can become a threat to the well being of the people working there. Forget office politics: research shows that companies should focus on improving office design to support the health of

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