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70 children lost at Cape Town beaches still waiting for parents to claim them

On New Year’s Day, 200,000 people hit the beaches of Cape Town, South Africa, including 500 children who were lost by their parents. By the end of the day, about 70 still hadn’t been picked up. The children, mostly between

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The Pandora’s Box of Ebola

18.12.2014 by Al-Ahram: Gamal Nkrumah Nigeria and Senegal have shown that Ebola is not an invincible adversary, using policies that should be extended to other West African countries. In our Orwellian world, there is no place for the politics of

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Painkillers can be a big headache

Migraine sufferers may not realize that drug overuse can be a large part of the problem. After Chantelle Binneman* gave birth to her only child in early 2012, her migraines, which she had had since the age of three, “exploded”.

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Council seeks cure for codeine fix

Pharmaceutical experts differ over how to limit dependency on a common painkiller. It may soon be much harder to get one’s hands on the common over-the-counter pain drug codeine if the Medicines Control Council has its way. The council wants

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How Digital and Health Will Converge for a Better You

by  Denise Morrison (President & CEO Campbell Soup Company)  15.12.2014 When I was growing up, my father helped kindle my passion for innovation and technology. He was a high-ranking executive at AT&T and used our family dinner table as a

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Good health without the fear of ruin

by M&G: Mia Malan and Ina Skosana Twenty years after the genocide, Rwanda’s health system is showing drastic improvements. When I served as a paediatrician in Rwanda’s public hospitals, I devoted myself to building a future where children could reach

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Why Universal Health Care Is No Cure-All

Bloomberg Businessweek, Global Economics by Charles Kenny 08.12.2014 There’s good news to report on health care in America. Obamacare has increased coverage by 10 million people, spending growth has dramatically declined, and preventable hospital errors such as drug mistakes fell

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Keep patient data in the cloud

The Boston Globe 09.12.2014 Laptops, smartphones, and tablets are revolutionizing health care, helping doctors better connect with their patients and giving health workers almost instantaneous access to medical information. But new technologies bring new risks, a lesson that Beth Israel

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Ebola thrives on the scraps of war and blight

by M&G Ina Skosana 05.12.2014 Personal accounts from Liberia and Sierra Leone bring home the devastation wrought by the virus. Jens Pedersen was making his final rounds for the evening when he encountered the lifeless body of an elderly man,

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Zambia: Teens turn to text messages for Aids advice

by M&G 03.12.2014 A Zambian HIV counsellor looks at text messages coming up on the U-report platform for HIV and Aids awareness at a call centre in Lusaka. (Pic: AFP)   The questions teenagers ask about HIV are brutally honest,

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