Folakemi Odedina: “How I turned brain drain to brain gain”
Folakemi Odedina, the founder and principal investigator at the Prostate Cancer Transatlantic Consortium, tells how she is turning brain drain into “brain gain” for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Climate change to alter Africa’s malaria map by 2100
An hydrological model reveals new zones where malaria may develop due to climate change.
Keep focus on emerging infections
Research funding for emerging infectious diseases rarely reaches the countries where such diseases do the most harm.
Fake Vaccines, Medicines and other Medical Products can kill you
The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) recommends a set of actions and urges politicians and all stakeholders to join forces and solve the urgent issue of falsified and substandard medical products.
Malaria: Artemisinin resistance emerges in Africa
Locally emerging resistance to treatment is major health threat in sub-saharan Africa.
Ebola Survivors Present Severe Immune System Abnormalities Two Years After Recovery
Do people who got Ebola in Guinea in 2013 – 2016 and survived have long term health conditions? Yes, answers a new study, that show that research must be made even when ther is no urgency any more.
Award for technical and scientific research goes to mathematicians
The inventors of two mathematical theories that have transformed signal processing have been honored.
A Report on Climate Change and Public Health in Turkey
The Turkish Academy of Sciences just published a report about climate change and its impact on health.
HIV testing ‘powered by football’ increase to 30 per cent
In Malawi, a project that used football to attract the youth and educate them on HIV/AIDS increased testing for HIV by about 30 per cent within this population.
New strain fears as fresh Ebola outbreak emerges
Scientists fear a new Ebola strain might emerge in the Democratic Republic of Congo if two versions of the disease mix together to form a new, potentially deadlier version.
