Drug-makers to suffer as patents run out
Source: Independent
Somé :: Burkina Faso | updated 2012-06-20 10:39:33 -0700 | technology-news
Ireland are expected to suffer from significant revenue declines by the end of 2013 as patents they hold on major products expire. Ratings agency Moody's yesterday warned that Eli Lilly, Bristol -Myers Squib and AstraZeneca will see the largest falls...
Charitable blue collar workers most frequent body donors
Source: Scoop
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2012-06-20 05:36:58 -0700 | technology-news
The survey of more than 200 people registered in body donor programmes took place during 2010 and involved universities in South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand. The results have just been published in the scientific journal Anatomical Sciences Education.
Libya PM: Gaddafi's son in good health
Source: Reuters
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-07-17 17:22:27 -0700 | technology-news
Topics Saif al-Islam is seen after his capture, in the custody of revolutionary fighters in Obari, Libya November 19, 2011. Libya's prime minister met war crimes prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday and reassured him that Muammar Gaddafi's detained son is...
'Fit' Mugabe belies health rumour
Source: BBC
Harare :: Zimbabwe | updated 2012-08-04 19:33:44 -0700 | political-news
Cheering crowds have greeted the Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, at the start of independence day celebrations in Harare. It is his first major engagement since he returned from a visit to Singapore. That trip prompted speculation that the 88-year-old leader...
OPEN LETTER FROM SOUTH SUDANESE CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS TO PRESIDENT SALVA KIIR MAYARDIT
Source: Sudan Tribune
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2012-06-07 06:29:36 -0700 | political-news
Regarding the government of South Sudan's invitation to President Omar al-Bashir to attend the April 2012 presidential summit in Juba 29 March 2012 Dear President Salva Kiir Mayardit, We, the undersigned South Sudanese civil society organizations, with the support of...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Health Speculation Goes Into Overdrive
Source: Africa Headlines
Harare :: Zimbabwe | updated 2012-07-09 17:56:09 -0700 | political-news
PF leader Robert Mugabe mounted today, after his party was forced to cancel its emergency politburo meeting on Wednesday. Mugabe flew to Singapore on Saturday, accompanied by his wife Grace. The state media described the visit as private, saying he...
Avion Monitoring Events of Military Coup Attempt in Mali
Source: International Business Times
Bamako :: Mali | updated 2012-05-22 23:49:33 -0700 | travel-news
Articles John Begeman, President & CEO commented "After speaking with our management team at Tabakoto, which is approximately 350 kilometers away from the capital city of Bamako, there appears to be reasonable calm and order to a certain extent in...
Food labelling laws could backfire
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2012-05-15 13:22:37 -0700 | political-news
New food labelling laws could mean consumers are given less information about products, it was reported on Thursday. The Daily Dispatch said labelling legislation was now so strict that it was cheaper for companies not to volunteer a breakdown of...
Oxfam warns of West Africa crisis
Source: BBC
Bamako :: Mali | updated 2012-05-09 07:20:46 -0700 | green-news
Oxfam warns of West Africa drought 'catastrophe' Drought has hit a huge swathe of the Sahel region Oxfam says urgent action is needed to stop drought in the Sahel region of West Africa turning into a humanitarian disaster affecting 13...
Kenya gov't fires 25k health workers on strike
Source: SF Gate
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2012-05-08 21:15:21 -0700 | political-news
Kenya's government spokesman says the government has fired 25,000 striking health workers from their public hospital jobs for defying an order to return to work. Alfred Mutua said Thursday that the health workers' names have been deleted from the payroll...
Tackling the last taboo
Source: The Guardian
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2012-05-01 15:12:54 -0700 | technology-news
Kallista Images/Getty Images/Kallista Images Diseases are not always as hard to defeat as tuberculosis and HIV, even when the damage they inflict is devastating...These babies die because their mothers have a sexually transmitted disease which often has no symptoms and...
Madagascar: Stunted Children Means Stunted Lives
Source: Africa Headlines
Antananarivo :: Madagascar | updated 2012-04-23 13:16:59 -0700 | political-news
Fed on rice and cassava since he was born, he is now receiving treatment for malnutrition at Maharodaza Nutrition Centre in Manjakandriana, about 30km from Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo. Part of this treatment involves training his mother, Juliette Raharimanana, on how...
Memorandum helps support veterans - NZDF (Fuseworks)
Source: Xtra News
Mou :: Burkina Faso | updated 2012-04-22 02:00:27 -0700 | technology-news
University of Otago will today enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to allow both organisations to work together to better support military veterans. The Memorandum of Understanding will be signed by Vice Chief of Defence Force Rear Admiral Jack...
Mokonyane: Health and social development to split
Source: Mail and Guardian
Johannesburg :: South Africa | updated 2012-04-20 13:40:05 -0700 | political-news
Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane has confirmed rumours that the province's beleaguered health and social development department will be split at the start of April. "As a further intervention to ensure the effective functioning of the provincial health department, we will,...
Health ministry declares South Sudan meningitis free
Source: Sudan Tribune
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated 2012-04-20 13:39:47 -0700 | travel-news
The health ministry on Friday declared South Sudan meningitis free and denied media reports that an outbreak of the disease had occurred in parts of the country, which reportedly lies in the meningitis belt. Lul Riek, the ministry's director general...
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