| | | Injection for medicine |  Welcome to the new medical community on bizcommunity.com. This vertical community is intended to offer a space for those in the medical industry to communicate with healthcare providers across Africa. And, more importantly, to offer those same healthcare providers a source of easily accessible, up-to-date information that is pertinent to their needs. While there may be a wealth of medical information aimed at professionals on the Internet, very little of it is specific to the needs of the developing world and none of it takes into account potential problems with bandwidth and Internet access.
We are now bridging that gap.Visit https://www.bizcommunity.com daily to see that we have done the surfing for you and pulled out the most interesting and relevent new articles from the major medical journals across the world, as well as keeping a constant eye on general medical developments.
We welcome articles about industry issues, views, news or research and product developments - please mail
medicalnews@bizcommunity.com.
Dr Bridget Farham, editor: www.bizcommunity.com.
| | Headlines | New bird flu outbreak confirmed in Togo
Sierra Leone:The lure of fake pharmaceuticals
Trial for new microbicide starts in South Africa
Food aid needs reform
Women taking oral oestrogen can reduce their risk of heart disease
Helpline allows children to report abuse
Echinacea can prevent the common cold
WHO donates medical supplies, equipment to Zimbabwe
Industry news: Launch of two new antiretroviral drugs
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Medical | | AFRICA Sierra Leone:The lure of fake pharmaceuticals
[Mariama Kandeh] When Mariama Sesay accompanied her pregnant friend to the hospital in Freetown recently the last thing on her mind was the fee. By the country's law, Sesay's friend needed not pay for treatment.
AFRICA WHO donates medical supplies, equipment to Zimbabwe
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has donated drugs, medical supplies and equipment for the control of AIDS, cholera, malaria and other diseases in Zimbabwe.
SOUTH AFRICA Unnatural deaths in SA fewer than natural deaths
[Nozipho Dlamini] The number of unnatural deaths in South Africa decreased between 2004 and 2005 compared to the number of natural deaths, said Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) last week.
AFRICA Lymphoma awareness: The realities of lymphoma - Azola Lujiza, FCB Redline
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma can be mistaken for flu in its early stages.
SOUTH AFRICA Industry news: Thebe Pharmaceuticals focuses on the supply of cost effective treatment - Owlhurst Communications
Thebe Pharmaceuticals is offering a wide range of branded ethical, generic and niche complimentary medicines and wants its probiotic product to be on top of the list.
SOUTH AFRICA Industry news: Launch of two new antiretroviral drugs - Stephanie Moss Solutions
 Mount Nelson Lounge |
Stephanie Moss solutions rose to the challenge of Aspen Pharmacare's tightly scheduled launch of new antiretroviral drugs.
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HIV/AIDS | | SOUTH AFRICA Trial for new microbicide starts in South Africa
[Gerald Businge] Just a week after Commonwealth Women Affairs ministers called for more research efforts in microbicides as a women-friendly HIV prevention method, researchers in South Africa have announced the start of trials for a new microbicide type to help women to protect themselves from HIV infection.
SOUTH AFRICA Food aid needs reform
There are many fundamental problems with the way that the world community deals with the world's hungry.
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Obstetrics and Gynaecology | | SOUTH AFRICA Women taking oral oestrogen can reduce their risk of heart disease - Grace Communications
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE:WYE), provides comment on the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Coronary Artery Calcium Study published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Paediatrics | | AFRICA Helpline allows children to report abuse
Children in Lesotho will soon be able to report abuse simply by picking up the phone, thanks to a new helpline being piloted by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Lesotho Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
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| | Events to diarise | West African Health 2007 West African Health - Lagos, Nigeria, 5 September
West African Health 2007 conference will provide an in-depth discussion, debate session and CEO round tables by top healthcare executives, hospital representatives, pharmaceuticals firms, HMOs, corporate healthcare providers, healthcare associations and healthcare regulators to objectively cover the most pressing issues affecting healthcare delivery in the sub region and Africa as whole. | | | The Pan African Health Congress 2007 Pan African Health - Johannesburg, South Africa, 18 September
The premier platform for B2B and networking solutions for the healthcare industry in Africa. | | | | |
| | Noticeboards | | AFRICA Sponsorship to open feeding centre for the blind
[Sponsorship] The Zimbabwe Pastors Forum through it's Hope Centre is appealing for help from well wishers, sponsors and donors to raise funds to open a feeding centre for the blind community. | | More... Submit a Noticeboard | | |
| | Quotes | | | "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." - Voltaire | | More... Submit a Quote | | |
| | News for medical professionals | | Effectiveness of ivermectin against Onchocerca volvulus infection
| Maternal nevirapine-based antiretroviral therapy is more effective if delayed for more than 6 months
| Treatment of malaria in Senegal
| How far to go? Travel and HIV treatment in South Africa
| Uptake of community-based health insurance in rural India
| Injectable paromomycin effective for visceral leishmaniasis in India
| XDR TB - a continuing problem
| Vaccination against cervical cancer effective
| Violence and rape may not fuel HIV infection in Africa
| Good news for the menopause
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