Malawi: Selenium Deficiency 'Endemic' in Malawi
Source: Africa Headlines
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2013-04-15 23:13:23 -0700 | health-news
Lilongwe, Malawi Low availability of selenium, an essential human micronutrient, in Malawian soils is responsible for its deficiency among the country's population, a study has found. Researchers from Malawi, New Zealand and the United Kingdom sought to establish both whether...
Africa: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation Urges Continued U.S. Leadership on HIV and Aids ...
Source: All Africa
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2013-04-12 05:37:14 -0700 | health-news
Obama's leadership, the United States has inspired the world with a call for a generation free of HIV and set out achievable goals to accomplish that mission. President and CEO Charles Lyons. "I just returned from visiting Malawi and Kenya....
Health experts call for better life styles in Malawi
Posted by: TAPITAYA
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2013-03-15 04:45:53 -0700 | health-news
Living a well-managed health-care life style, routine medical screening and eating recommended foods can promote a healthy living; experts have assured the Malawi nation. Programme Manager for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health in the country’s Ministry of Health, Dr...
Doctors in Malawi operate siamens twins
Posted by: TAPITAYA
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2013-02-09 10:15:23 -0800 | health-news
Doctors in Malawi have successfully operated siamens twins, initially they said could be referred to foreign country due to the complex nature and the challenges the health sector faces in the country. The operation was conducted at the Kamuzu Central...
Conjoined twins in Malawi calls for outside attention
Posted by: TAPITAYA
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2013-02-05 00:36:51 -0800 | health-news
Medical doctors in Malawi are considering recommending that the conjoined twins born to an 18-year old woman in Lilongwe last week be sent to another country where they could get further medical attention. The doctors have indicated that the twins...
US assists in HIV/Aids capacity building
Posted by: TAPITAYA
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2012-06-16 02:49:10 -0700 | health-news
The Malawi Defense Force (MDF) has declared that it will take far-reaching steps to combat the HIV/Aids pandemic that has been a menace to many institutions worldwide. MDF Director of Personnel Major General John Msonthi Jr. made the avowal at...
US warns Malawi on effects of increasing population
Posted by: RAYRUBY
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2012-05-11 02:25:39 -0700 | health-news
The United States Government has warned Malawi’s increasing population is more challenging to the Southern nation and may affect its growth and development strategies and goals. The warning was made in the country’s capital, Lilongwe, on Tuesday at the start...
Musilim gear regulated for Malawi medics
Posted by: TAPITAYA
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2012-04-30 20:27:12 -0700 | health-news
Female Muslims practicing in the medical field in Malawi have every reason to smile as the country has legalized the wearing of their head gear and related dressing as part of uniform. “The dressing code for Muslim nurses and midwives...
Good will messages for Malawi president
Posted by: TAPITAYA
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2012-11-02 13:50:44 -0700 | health-news
Malawi vice president Joyce Banda has called upon fellow countrymen to pray for a speedy recovery for Professor Bingu wa Mutharika, the country’s leader, who Thursday evening fell ill and was flown out to a South African clinic for further...
HIV/AIDS: Malawi health authorities blame Chinese for fueling the increase in spread
Posted by: RAYRUBY
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2012-04-14 08:55:30 -0700 | health-news
Since Malawi switched ties from Taiwan to Mainland China in early 2008, hundreds of Chinese nationals have been flocking into the country in the name of investments. Today these foreigners are almost in every corner of the country’s main cities...
MALAWI: The rush to rationalize
Source: IRIN
Johannesburg :: South Africa | updated 2012-02-01 12:55:02 -0800 | political-news
As international HIV funding declines, nations are bracing for a future with less money and tougher choices...Malawi seems to have read the writing on the wall and is in the early phases of costing its HIV programming to see what...
Malawi: New Studies Show Progress, Value in Vaccinaton Against Deadly Pneumoia
Source: Africa Headlines
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2012-01-11 10:46:53 -0800 | entertainment-news
New Studies Show Progress, Value in Vaccinaton Against Deadly Pneumoia 10 November 2011 press release Geneva Advances lauded as Malawi becomes next developing country to introduce pneumococcal vaccine on Saturday, World Pneumonia Day Vaccines against the primary cause of deaths...
Racism Aside, Why are so Many Africans HIV Positive?
Posted by: Simon Collery
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2012-07-26 21:55:30 -0700 | health-news
I commented elsewhere on an intriguing article last February and I'm not going to write another commentary now. But for some reason, UNAIDS have only just managed to include the article in their very carefully selected weekly collection of very...
Kangaroo Mother Care: Holding Babies Close to Heal
Source: myGLOSS
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2010-11-03 13:50:01 -0700 | odd-news
She and her husband David received the news that no parent ever wants to hear. While their daughter, Emily, was doing well, their son, Jamie, didn't survive delivery. Given the chance to say goodbye, Ogg instinctively unwrapped her gown and...
Sidra medical team visits Malawi
Source: Qatar English Daily
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2013-05-17 17:20:21 -0700 | health-news
The group included paediatric physicians, nurses, a pharmacist, emergency medical technician and research professionals. Malawi has one of the highest rates of death in children under the age of five in the world. Malawi's Ministry of Health, the World Federation...
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