Health Technology: Experts outline five keys to unlock Africa’s health equity

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A panel of experts has outlined five key health technology insights that will provide digital means to raise health equity across Africa.   How can new digital ways of working in the healthcare sector improve outcomes for patients to increase global health equity in the COVID-19 era and beyond?  This was one of the questions tackled […]

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Taiwo Obe, Journalism Clinic Founder, on story behind mytori.ng

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lecturers to be considered for internship at The Journalism Clinic, his mention of photography as his interest triggered an idea: a pictorial storytelling site.

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Statin use linked with increased survival from aggressive breast cancer

A study is offering the most detailed investigation to date into the relationship between breast cancer survival and statins – common cholesterol-lowering drugs. The study saw a 58 percent greater survival rate in breast cancer patients taking statins.

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Blood pressure “barometer” cells discovered in the kidney

Researchers have discovered a population of natural barometers that monitor and maintain our blood pressure. The cellular sensors have for decades been presumed to be located in a certain type of cell in the kidney, but have only now been detected.

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