Africa Information - January 6, 2009

FDA Considering Race Specific Heart Drug

June 16, 2005 - Topics fda, africa, burden and disease

Danielle George - All Headline News Staff Reporter

If approved, NitroMed's BiDil would prevent heart failure in blacks. Even with an approval for blacks only, doctors could prescribe BiDil for anyone they thought it might help

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Fatal STD Resurfaces in Canada

June 3, 2005 - Topics chlamydia, infection, men, hiv and hepatitis
CBC News reports the surfacing of a potentially fatal sexually transmitted disease that rarely appears in industrialized countries in Canada.

According to the report, there are currently 22 cases of lymphogranuloma venereum reported to the country's public health agency. An analysis in the May 31 online edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal first announced the potential outbreak

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Study Says a Woman is Killed Every Six Hours in South Africa

May 24, 2005 - Topics africa, study, violence, female and women
A report based on 1999 data collected by the Medical Research Council, the University of Cape Town and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, says that a woman is killed every six hours by their partner in South Africa.

Furthermore, the study found that less than 40 percent of the homicides lead to a conviction

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Not Enough Doctors are Being Trained, Recruited For Third World Countnries

May 11, 2005 - Topics africa and policy

Danielle M. George-All Headline News Staff Reporter

London (AHN)- The British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nurses have signed an international treaty that discusses the lack of skilled medical workers around the world

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Wild Virus Polio Appears In Indonesia

May 3, 2005 - Topics polio, outbreak, child, infection and immunization

Central Administrator - News Room Administrators Administrator

A case of polio has been found in Indonesia, leading to fears that an outbreak that began in Africa has crossed to Southeast Asia

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