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Ketamine ushers in fraught new frontier
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/03/2023
» For Greg Rice, ketamine was transformative. The drug, approved decades ago to sedate patients during surgery, was increasingly being used to treat mental health conditions such as his depression.
Dentist puts teeth into ambulance care
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/06/2022
» On the way to and from his dental clinic every day, Dr Abdulkadir Abdirahman Adan was appalled by an all-too-common sight: severely injured and dead Somalis being transported to hospitals in wooden hand carts or wheelbarrows.
Worst drought in decades devastates Ethiopia's nomads
AFP, Published on 04/05/2022
» GODE, Ethiopia: There has hardly been a drop of rain in Hargududo in 18 months. Dried-up carcasses of goats, cows and donkeys litter the ground near the modest thatched huts in this small village in the Somali region of southeastern Ethiopia.
Covid booster efficacy wanes significantly by fourth month: US study
AFP, Published on 12/02/2022
» WASHINGTON: The efficacy of third doses of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines wanes substantially by the fourth month after administration, a new study by the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday.
Covid could add to 2 million per year stillbirth toll: UN
AFP, Published on 08/10/2020
» PARIS: Almost 2 million babies are stillborn every year -- one every 16 seconds -- the United Nations said Thursday, warning that the Covid-19 pandemic could add another 200,000 deaths to the "devastating" toll.
Health troubles persist for Ebola survivers: study
AFP, Published on 23/12/2015
» PARIS - The lucky ones who survive Ebola may suffer potentially blinding vision problems, hearing loss and joint pain for months afterwards, medical experts reported on Wednesday.
Europe court backs decision to take quadriplegic off life support
AFP, Published on 05/06/2015
» STRASBOURG (FRANCE) - Europe's rights court upheld Friday the decision of a French court to allow a man in a vegetative state to be taken off life support, in a ruling that could become a benchmark on the continent.
Western militaries scramble to aid Ebola-hit west Africa
AFP, Published on 20/09/2014
» FREETOWN - Western militaries readied aid missions Friday to help Africa's Ebola-hit nations battle an epidemic which has sparked killings in panicked southern Guinea and forced a nationwide shutdown in Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone launches controversial Ebola shutdown
AFP, Published on 20/09/2014
» FREETOWN - Sierra Leone launched a nationwide three-day shutdown on Friday to contain the deadly spread of an Ebola epidemic described by the UN Security Council as a threat to world peace.
China ups its medics in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone to 174
AFP, Published on 16/09/2014
» GENEVA - China will send more medics to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone to help boost laboratory testing for the virus, raising the total number of Chinese medical experts there to 174, the UN said Tuesday.