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From: Focus on Africa - New Ebola treatment cures symptoms in just an hour
After researching the Ebola virus for over fifty years, Dr Jean Jacque Muyembe and his team have announced a new cure that has proved effective in ...
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Ebola: How a disease is prevented from spreading
For health workers on the frontlines of the battle against Ebola, time means everything. Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO)...
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Janssen Announces U.S. FDA Accelerated Approval for SIRTURO® (bedaquiline) as Part of Combination Therapy to Treat Adolescents with ...
Multidrug-resistant TB and extensively drug-resistant TB are difficult to treat due to resistance to available therapies. According to the World He...
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FDA approves new drug for treatment-resistant forms of tuberculosis that affects the lungs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Pretomanid Tablets in combination with bedaquiline and linezolid for the treatment of a specif...
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On Alzheimer’s, scientists head back to the drawing board — and once-shunned ideas get an audience
LOS ANGELES — At this year’s largest conference on Alzheimer’s disease, there was no big reveal. There were no major companies presenting late-stag...
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‘It’s Time Africa Had Its Own Harvard.’ Inside a University Training African Leaders to Solve African Problems
With its modernist buildings, spacious grounds and airy cafeteria packed with young adults slinging backpacks while scrolling through their Instagr...
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Improving Breast Cancer Outcomes Through Wellness Interventions
Barriers to implementing wellness approaches among patients with breast cancer, concentrating predominantly on the role of weight management and ph...
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Medicaid Expansion Under ACA Reduced Racial Disparity in Timing of Cancer Care
“Racial disparities in cancer-related care access and outcomes exist across the trajectory of cancer care,” Amy Davidoff, PhD, MS, of the Yale Sch...
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Africa’s Cancer healthcare workforce is overworked and under-supported - On Health Blog Network
Research published today in Infectious Agents and Cancer reports alarming disparities in the workload of oncologists in Africa compared to other pa...
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Alzheimer’s Disease: More Progress Needed in Innovation of AD Therapeutics:
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) released a new report, The State of Innovation in Highly Prevalent Chronic Diseases Volume IV: Alzh...
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