Tag Archives: Medicine
Amira Agarib An Ethiopian maid who was allegedly tortured and burnt by a Morrocan woman has undergone cosmetic surgery at Al Qasimi Hospital. The 23-year-old had many burns on her body when she was brought to the hospital, where she … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Cosmetic and Plastic, Ethiopian, Health, Medicine, plastic surgery, Surgeons and Clinics, surgery, United States
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By Ameh Comrade Godwin , dailypost Residents of Malumfashi local government area of Kastina state were on Tuesday thrown into confusion following the mysterious birth of a baby with two heads by a 19-year-old housewife, Zainab Dahiru. It was … read more »
Posted in Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Togo, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Ahmadu Bello University, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, baby with two heads, General Hospital, Health, Medicine, Nigeria, Tuesday, Umar
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Conjoined twin girls who were abandoned by their parents because they could not afford their care have been given new hope of surgery and returning home to their family. Veena and Vani, eight, were born joined at the head, but … read more »
Posted in Miscellaneous, Odd News
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Tagged Chile, Conjoined twins, Health, Hospital, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Medicine, Niloufer Hospital, Santiago, Vani
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September 6, 2011 by benim
An anguished father has told how his maimed son is lying in agony in a desperately overcrowded Tripoli hospital after being terribly injured by a grenade. Rashid Ahmed says the hospital is so busy that it is difficult to find … read more »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Facilities, Health, Hospital, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Libya, Medicine, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, Tripoli, Tunisia, West Africa
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September 4, 2011 by benim
Suddenly a vehicle screeched to a halt in front of Tripoli’s central hospital and we heard a woman’s screams as a young boy was rushed past us in the arms of a group of men and carried into the emergency … read more »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Bani Walid District, Health, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Libya, Medicine, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Regime, Southern Africa, surgery, Tripoli, West Africa
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February 11, 2011 by benim
‘Unlicensed medical practitioner’ sought for administering silicone injection which killed Claudia Aderotimi Transgender woman suspect ‘well known’ in Philadelphia and believed to have had similar procedure during sex change Tip off came after police raided home of ‘fixer’ in New … read more »
Posted in Europe, Global Issues, World Crime
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Tagged Africa maps, Africa news, African news, African tribes, breaking news, buttock enhancement, Claudia Seye Aderotimi, Embassies and Consulates, Health, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, London, Medicine, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Student, surgery, United States
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January 20, 2011 by benim
Overcrowding and lack of resources were contributing factors to the death of six babies at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg last year, according to a report released on Thursday. “This tragedy has occurred against a background of a neonatal … read more »
Posted in News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa maps, Africa news, African news, breaking news, Embassies and Consulates, Gauteng, Health, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Infant, Johannesburg, Medicine, News local news, newspapers, Sepsis, South Africa, World news
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January 13, 2011 by benim
New data shows that as the death toll in Nigeria is falling, the percentage of deaths that happen in the first month of life is increasing. Newborn deaths now make up 28% of all deaths under five years compared to … read more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Health, News, Nigeria, West Africa, Women
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Tagged Africa news, African news, breaking news, Childbirth, childhood, deaths toll, Demography, Embassies and Consulates, Goodluck Jonathan, health-news, human development, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Infancy, Infant, infant mortality, Lagos, Maternal health, Medicine, Mickey Chopra, newborns deaths, News local news, newspapers, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian, Obstetrics, Population, Public Health, Susan Grant, World news
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January 10, 2011 by benim
The Telegraph reported two women who became pregnant despite having contraceptives implanted in their bodies. Kimberly Heales and Jane Wilkinson, both 22 and from the UK, had life-turning events after having known that they conceived despite having received contraceptive implants … read more »
Posted in Health, Parenting, Women
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Afrika, Anthony Gold Solicitors, Birth control, breaking news, Contraceptive failure, contraceptive implant, emergency contraception, health-news, Hormonal contraception, Implanon, implant failure, Implants, IndepthAfrica, Jane Wilkinson, Kimberly Heales, London, Medicine, News local news, newspapers, Obstetrics, Pregnancy, Stephanie Prior, Teen Pregnancy, Unintended pregnancy, United Kingdom, World news
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December 29, 2010 by benim
An impatient patient crashed his truck through the emergency entrance of Kelowna General Hospital after waiting 45 minutes to see a doctor, according to B.C. Mounties. The 41-year-old man visited the hospital emergency room Tuesday evening, but left after waiting … read more »
Posted in Canada
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Tagged Africa news, African news, breaking news, Chevrolet Blazer, emergency department, Health, Hospital, IndepthAfrica, Kelowna General Hospital, Medicine, News local news, newspapers, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Truck, World news
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December 28, 2010 by benim
airo, Egypt- Since October 8, the H1N1 swine flu virus killed at least 56 people and 1,172 infected in Egypt, the top source reports. Since it was first reported there in June 2009, there are some 16,373 have been infected … read more »
Posted in Egypt, Health, News
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Tagged Africa news, African news, breaking news, Cairo, Disaster Accident, disasters-news, Egypt, Epidemics, flu pandemic, flu pandemic by country, flu pandemic in Europe, Health in the United States, IndepthAfrica, influenza, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Medicine, microbiology, News local news, newspapers, pandemics, swine flu, swine influenza, World news
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December 22, 2010 by benim
TORONTO – A comparison of cancer survival rates in six developed countries puts Canada in the top three alongside Australia and Sweden, and ahead of Norway, Denmark and the U.K. The study, initiated in the United Kingdom and published online … read more »
Posted in Canada, Health
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Australia, benchmark, breaking news, Canada, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Care Ontario, colorectal cancer, Health, Health Medical Pharma, IndepthAfrica, Lancet, Medicine, News local news, Occupational safety and health, pathology, Sweden, toronto, World news
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December 20, 2010 by benim
This was revealed by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi in a written response to a parliamentary question on Friday. “At least 4366 children under the age of a year died at national level. When the newborns are added, a total 8001 … read more »
Posted in AIDS/HIV, Children & Youth, Health, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Aaron Motsoaledi, Africa news, African news, AIDS, babies died, biology, breaking news, Cape Town, EThekwini, health-news, HIV, hiv/aids, Human Interest, Immunodeficiency, IndepthAfrica, infectious diseases, Jacob Zuma, Medicine, microbiology, News local news, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Pneumonia, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, South Africa, South Africa news, western cape, World news, Year of birth missing
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December 14, 2010 by benim
On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a stunning medical breakthrough: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure. Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the “Berlin … read more »
Posted in AIDS/HIV, Health, News
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Tagged AIDS, aids cure, aids epidemic, Berlin Patient, biology, breaking news, Canada, Cure For Aids, Cure For Hiv, Gero Hütter, Health Medical Pharma, health-news, Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, HIV, HIV Cure, Hiv Cure 2010, Hiv Cured, HIV Man Cured, Hiv Positive Man Cured, Hiv Stem Cell, hiv/aids, Human Interest, Immunodeficiency, IndepthAfrica, local news, Man Cured Of Aids, Man Curred HIV, Medicine, microbiology, positive man, Ray Brown, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Social Issues, Timothy Ray Brown, toronto, Transplantation medicine, virology
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December 1, 2010 by benim
Both HIV prevalence rates and the numbers of people dying from AIDS vary greatly between African countries. In Somalia and Senegal the HIV prevalence is under 1% of the adult population, whereas in Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe around 10-15% of … read more »
Posted in AIDS / Humanitarian, AIDS/HIV, Analysis, Article, Health, Indepth Africa Magazine, News
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Tagged Africa news, African, AIDS, AIDS pandemic, biology, Circumcision and HIV, Health, Health Medical Pharma, HIV, hiv prevalence, hiv/aids, HIV/AIDS in Africa, HIV/AIDS in Botswana, Human Interest, Immunodeficiency, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Medicine, microbiology, Namibia, pandemics, Prevalence, prevalence rate, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Social Issues, Somalia, South Africa, Southern Africa, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, West Africa, Windhoek
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November 23, 2010 by benim
Women as well as men can use condoms to protect themselves against diseases such as Aids, the Vatican has confirmed at the launch of a new book about the Pope. Pope Benedict XVI had said in a new book that … read more »
Posted in AIDS/HIV, Europe, Global Issues, Health, Women
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Tagged and negotiation, Boston, Catholic Church, causes-news, Condom, Condoms, hiv/aids, IndepthAfrica, kick starts, medical technology, Medicine, Needles, Penis, Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, pope condoms, Religion, Religion Belief, Roman Catholic Church and AIDS, sexual health
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November 22, 2010 by benim
The obesity epidemic has spread to poorer nations, where it almost entirely affects wealthy citizens, while the poor in the same nations still remain underweight, a study said. By contrast, obesity tends to have a greater impact on the poor … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fitness, Health, News, North Africa
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Tagged Africa news, Albany, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Bariatrics, body shape, Developing country, Ethiopia, Harvard School of Public Health, Health, Health Medical Pharma, Hospitality Recreation, IndepthAfrica, medical education, Medicine, Metabolic disorders, Nutrition, Obesity, overweight, S.V. Subramanian, Social Issues, Underweight, United States
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November 18, 2010 by benim
The family of an elderly Quebec woman who died in hospital after waiting six hours in the emergency room to see a doctor has filed a complaint with the facility. Last Tuesday, Therese de Repentigny’s daughter took her to the … read more »
Posted in Canada
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Tagged Alberta, Canada, Deaths in ERs, emergency department, emergency medicine, emergency rooms, ER, Fernande Blais, health budgets, Health care, health care debate, Health economics, Health Medical Pharma, Healthcare in Canada, healthcare reform, IndepthAfrica, Medicine, Montreal, montreal woman, Montreal Woman Dies, political-news, Therese de Repentigny, Triage, Waiting times., Winnipeg, woman died
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November 17, 2010 by benim
Neighbouring Dominican Republic confirms first case of cholera Naked and destitute, she lies curled on one side, arms pulled protectively to her chest. But despite appearing the manifestation of human misery, no-one stops to even give her a second glance … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues, Health
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Tagged Artibonite River, biology, Caribbean, Cholera, death toll, Disaster Accident, Environment, geography, Haiti, health-news, Hinche, IndepthAfrica, Medicine, microbiology, Military operations other than war, peace, Peacekeeping, Port-au-Prince, U.N., United Nations, United Nations peacekeeping, War Conflict
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November 16, 2010 by benim
A male scientist says he’s discovered what makes women happy. It’s a hormone called oxytocin, says Paul Zak, a researcher at Claremont Graduate University. Zak presented evidence to back his case today at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San … read more »
Posted in Health, Women
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Tagged biology, breastfeeding, Claremont Graduate University, Contraction, Education, Empathy, health-news, Labor, Lactation, Medicine, Mental Health, Neuropeptides, neuroscience, Neurotransmitters, Obstetrics, oxytocin, Paul J. Zak, Paul Zak, People, reproductive system, San Diego, Society for Neuroscience, What Do Women Really Want, women health
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November 15, 2010 by benim
Protesters in Haiti who blamed United Nations peacekeepers for the epidemic of cholera there rioted in two cities on Monday, hurling rocks and setting fire to a police station, police and eyewitnesses said. In the country’s second city of Cap-Haitien … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Artibonite River, biology, Caribbean, Cholera, death toll, Disaster Accident, Environment, geography, Haiti, health-news, Hinche, IndepthAfrica, Medicine, microbiology, Military operations other than war, peace, Peacekeeping, Port-au-Prince, U.N., United Nations, United Nations peacekeeping, War Conflict
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November 15, 2010 by benim
The death toll from Haiti’s cholera outbreak has soared to 917 as officials struggle to contain the growing epidemic threatening the quake-ravaged country. As concerns rise over massive health challenges in the aftermath of the country’s cataclysmic earthquake almost a … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues, Health
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Tagged Artibonite River, biology, Caribbean, Cholera, death toll, Disaster Accident, Environment, Haiti, health-news, IndepthAfrica, Medicine, microbiology, Port-au-Prince, United Nations
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November 10, 2010 by benim
Health officials in Haiti are reporting a growing number of deaths and hospitalizations from cholera, as health workers fear an explosion of the disease in the crowded capital Port-au-Prince. The Ministry of Health says 643 people have died from the … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged biology, Caribbean, Cholera, cite soleil, Environment, Haiti, health-news, IndepthAfrica, Medicine, microbiology, Pan American Health Organization, Port-au-Prince, Waterborne diseases, Weather, World Health Organization, Zimbabwean cholera outbreak
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November 9, 2010 by benim
For a disease as complex as breast cancer, pinpointing its risk factors, genetic or otherwise, is challenging enough. But an intriguing new study suggests that the task may be even harder when ethnicity is thrown into the mix. The research, … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues, Health
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Tagged alum creek, Breast Cancer, Cancer, ella trial, ethnicity, Health Medical Pharma, health-news, Hispanic, Hospitality Recreation, Medicine, Mexican American, Obesity, race, Social Issues
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November 5, 2010 by benim
CHICAGO — Slight differences in five amino acids in a protein called HLA-B may explain why certain people resist the human immunodeficiency virus, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a study that lends new clues about how to make a … read more »
Posted in AIDS/HIV, Health
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Tagged AIDS, biology, Chicago, DNA, Feline immunodeficiency virus, Harvard University, Health Medical Pharma, health-news, HIV, hiv vaccine, hiv/aids, HLA-B, Human Interest, immune system, Immunodeficiency, IndepthAfrica, Massachusetts General Hospital, Medicine, microbiology, Retroviruses, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Social Issues, Vaccine
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November 2, 2010 by benim
Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, a study by British researchers has found. The research, by the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD), examined the harm caused by substances including alcohol, tobacco, heroin, crack … read more »
Posted in Health, News
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Tagged addictive-drugs, alcohol, Australia, Chemistry, Coca, Cocaine, Drug addiction, drug-use, ecstasy, England, Health Medical Pharma, health-news, Heroin, London, medical-research, Medicine, Opioids, pharmacology, Steve Hambleton, Stimulants, United Kingdom
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November 1, 2010 by benim
Should marajuana be considered to be a drug, or another random plant? In 1619, Jamestown colony settlers were required to grow marijuana. Did you know that this was George Washington’s primary crop at Mount Vernon? Another fact Henry Fords first … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues, Health
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Tagged Addiction, alcohol, alcoholism, Cannabis, Clinical psychology, drug, Drug addiction, George Washington, health-news, Indepth Africa, Jamestown Virginia, La Guardia Committee, Medicinal plants, Medicine, Methadone, Mount Vernon, Physical dependence, Psychoactive drug, psychology, Social Issues, Substance-related disorders, Walla Walla
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October 28, 2010 by benim
Targeting: Hillary Clinton (U.S. Secretary of State) Sponsored by: CARE An estimated 100 to 140 million girls and women worldwide are currently living with the consequences of female genital cutting, also called female circumcision. Female genital cutting includes several different … read more »
October 28, 2010 by benim
South Korean police have detained the woman, from the southern port of Busan. She tested HIV-positive in February and has since had sex with 20 men she met online, Yonhap news agency said. It quoted investigators as saying her father … read more »
Posted in AIDS/HIV, Asia, Global Issues, Health
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Tagged AIDS, Aki Hakkarainen, arrest warrant, biology, Busan, health-news, HIV, hiv/aids, HIV/AIDS in the Peoples Republic of China, Human Interest, Indepth Africa, Law Crime, Medicine, Men who have sex with men, microbiology, Police, Seoul, Sexually transmitted disease, Social Issues, South Korea
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October 27, 2010 by benim
Davey Becks was on “The Ellen DeGeneres” show Wednesday doing a hidden camera bit where he visits an unsuspecting masseuse and Ellen tells him ridiculous things to say to her. And it’s actually really funny! Watch as Beckham reveals his surprising comedic … read more »
Posted in Multimedia, News Video, Soccer, Sports, Video
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Tagged David Beckham, DeGeneres, Ellen DeGeneres, England, Football in England, Football in the United Kingdom, hidden camera, IndepthAfrica, Leicester City F.C., Loan (association football), Massage, Medicine, Renton, sports-news, Sven-Goran Eriksson
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