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Japan’s Abe pledges $30 billion for Africa over next three years
By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) – Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told African leaders on Saturday that his country will commit $30 billion in public and private support for infrastructure development on the continent. Resource-poor Japan has long been interested in tapping Africa's vast natural resources, even more so since dependence on oil and natural…
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Tanzania’s army of community health workers face mistrust as they roll out services
By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – One of the biggest tests of Justine Michael’s job as a community health worker is not the distances he must travel along remote dirt roads to visit patients in Tanzania’s Mkuranga district, but rather the suspicion he often encounters. Michael is one of more than…
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Tanzania’s army of community health workers face mistrust as they roll out services
By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – One of the biggest tests of Justine Michael’s job as a community health worker is not the distances he must travel along remote dirt roads to visit patients in Tanzania’s Mkuranga district, but rather the suspicion he often encounters. Michael is one of more than…
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Judge rejects doctors’ lawsuit against Quackwatch website
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawsuit brought by two pioneers in the anti-aging movement who said an online article about them suggests they’re quacks has been tossed out by a judge.
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Judge rejects doctors’ lawsuit against Quackwatch website
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawsuit brought by two pioneers in the anti-aging movement who said an online article about them suggests they’re quacks has been tossed out by a judge.
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Hong Kong confirms first case of Zika virus
By Reuters Staff HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong has confirmed its first case of Zika, putting the Asian financial center on high alert for any spread of the mosquito-borne virus that has wreaked havoc in Latin America, the Caribbean and beyond. At a media conference late on Thursday, Controller of the Centre for Health…
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China over-reliant on hospitals, needs more family doctors: WHO
China’s healthcare system is overly reliant on large, over-burdened hospitals, which will struggle to cope with a spike in diseases linked to the fast-ageing population, the World Health Organization said on Saturday. “As China’s health challenges … continue to mount, with an aging population, so too will the demands on the country’s health system, along…
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Deadly fish parasite forces Yellowstone River closure in Montana
Montana wildlife officials have closed a lengthy stretch of the Yellowstone River to all recreational activities at the height of the summer tourist season following the deaths of thousands of fish this week from a rare but virulent microbial parasite. The closure, imposed by the state Fish, Wildlife and Parks agency, covers more than 150…
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Zika spreads to Miami Beach, U.S. expands travel warning
By Zachary Fagenson and Julie Steenhuysen MIAMI/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Federal health officials on Friday warned pregnant women not to travel to trendy Miami Beach after Florida confirmed that the mosquito-borne Zika virus was active in the popular tourist destination. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also suggested that pregnant women who are especially…
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GSK and Google parent forge $715 million bioelectronic medicines firm
GlaxoSmithKline and Google parent Alphabet's life sciences unit are creating a new company focused on fighting diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body, jump-starting a novel field of medicine called bioelectronics. Verily Life Sciences – known as Google's life sciences unit until last year – and Britain's biggest drugmaker will together contribute 540 million…