Rabies – first recorded centuries ago as a terrifying way to die – continues to be a daily disaster for many of the world’s poorest people. Human evolution has been inextricably linked with our interactions with animals. Whether for food,…
Rabies – first recorded centuries ago as a terrifying way to die – continues to be a daily disaster for many of the world’s poorest people. Human evolution has been inextricably linked with our interactions with animals. Whether for food,…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…