أغسطس 2021

  COVID-19 has raised public awareness about the role of national medicines regulatory authorities in enabling access to safe, effective and...

  A proposal to restructure primary health care in South Africa provides the perfect opportunity for complementary and alternative medicine ...

  Conflicts do not spare health systems. From Afghanistan to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the effects that wars and state fragility...

  As modern medicine has advanced, so too has our understanding of what affects health. Over recent decades this has generated a number of n...

  When sick people visit a doctor, nurse or pharmacist they expect to be prescribed with medication that will restore them to health. The ex...

  Kenya is grappling with the COVID-19 Delta variant, which recently resulted in the western part of the country being put into lockdown. It...

  Uganda is currently in a partial country-wide lockdown. The “second wave” of coronavirus infections has been especially unforgiving. There...

  With rising cases of the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Nigeria, there is heightened concern about how well the country is prepa...

  In public health, an important goal of vaccination and immunisation is to reach population or herd immunity. This is why the term comes up...

  Nigeria’s Tertiary Education Trust Fund has approved N8.5bn (US$16.83m) for medical research this year an increase of 13.33%. Of this amou...

  Brain aging is inevitable to some extent, but it is not uniform; it affects everyone, or every brain, differently. Slowing down brain agin...

 More than 50 million people live with dementia around the world. Scientists are interested in determining whether cognitive stimulation may...

  Scientists generally believe that cognitive functions, including attention, executive function, and reasoning skills, decline with age. A ...