أكتوبر 2021

  Vegan diets are entirely plant-based, which means they include no meat, eggs, or dairy products. Many animal-based foods are high in fat a...

  Elementary school children in the United States will soon have one more layer of protection to keep them safe from COVID-19. On Oct. 29, 2...

  In recent decades, much progress has been made in diversifying the Supreme Court. While only white males served as justices for more than ...

  Since the pandemic started, people of all ages have gained weight. At the same time, the rate at which youth and young adults are seeking ...

  The World Health Organization recommended its first malaria vaccine for children on Oct. 6, 2021 – a breakthrough hailed by the U.N. agenc...

  In the US, some National Basketball Association (NBA) players have recently asserted their right to privacy over their COVID vaccination s...

  South Africa was put under strict social and economic lockdown on 26 March. By the end of April the government announced that it was easin...

  South Africa has launched the world’s largest national screening programme to detect cryptococcal meningitis – an AIDS-defining fungal opp...

  Health did not get significant attention in South African President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address. The main points he mentioned...

  The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened global inequities. The world’s poor have borne the brunt of national lockdowns and will struggle to rec...

  My husband, Andy, has Parkinson’s disease. A year ago, his neurologist recommended a new pill that he was to take at bedtime. We quickly l...

  The first case of fatal Marburg virus disease was identified in Guinea, West Africa on 9 August 2021. Marburg is a highly infectious zoono...

  Road traffic crashes claim an average of five lives every day in Ghana. The country reported a road traffic death rate of 24.9 per 100,000...

  Hundreds of minibus taxi operators in South Africa recently defied the government’s COVID-19 restrictions prohibiting them from carrying f...

  Nurses and midwives are the backbone of health systems globally. Of the world’s 43.5 million healthcare professionals, more than 20 millio...