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Zimbabwe Health Minister fired over US$42m tender scandal
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sacked Health Minister Obadiah Moyo for “conduct inappropriate for a government minister”. The dismissal was confirmed by presidential spokesperson...
UK hospitals were a major cause of COVID-19 infections
Up to 20% of patients and 90% of UK nurses and doctors who caught coronavirus, picked it up in hospitals, The Daily Telegraph reports...
UK hospital conducts first virtual ward rounds for students
Imperial College London has conducted what it said is the world’s first virtual ward round for medical students, which means an entire class of...
India's healthcare system on brink of collapse
Indian public hospitals were already severely short of 600,000 doctors and 2m nurses, compounded by over half of the 1.2m registered doctors being quacks...
COVID-19 risks blowing HIV progress 'way off course’ — UNAIDS
The UNAIDS 2020 Global Aids report on the global Aids epidemic shows that 2020 targets will not be met because of deeply unequal success;...
Anti-tobacco activists now thwart vaping 'health revolution'
Many of the activists who fought against the deceptions of Big Tobacco, are the same ones who have thwarted the nascent health revolution of...
Economic evaluation of FMT versus antibiotics for recurrent C-diff infection
Faecal microbial transplantation (FMT) as a treatment for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is more effective and more cost-efficient treatment than using antibiotics, a study by...
Declining eyesight improved by looking into deep red light
Staring at a deep red light for three minutes a day can significantly improve declining eyesight, finds a new University College London-led study, the...
Smell tests should be part of routine COVID-19 screenings — STAT News
Temperature checks could well join the long list of fumbled responses to the pandemic, from the testing debacle to federal officials’ about-face on masks,...
Vitamin D may help reduce colitis risk during immunotherapy
Taking vitamin D supplements might reduce the risk of colitis in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors to treat their cancer, found a US study.
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