Top journal editor to resign in fallout over racism podcast
The embattled chief editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association is resigning amid a probe of his handling
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Dementia patients are at greater risk for COVID-19, particularly African Americans and people with vascular dementia
New research is shedding light on how dementia can increase people’s risk for developing COVID-19, particularly among two groups: African
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South African scientists who discovered new COVID-19 variant share what they know
Late last year the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA) led by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing
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Geographic access to critical maternal health services in an African megacity
Despite a 30% drop in global maternal deaths from 1990 to 2015, 280,000 women still die annually due to complications
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African nations certified free of wild polio virus, a first in history
The World Health Organization is set to declare several African nations free of wild polio, making the continent free of
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Valtrex for herpes
A pinch in the leg, a squeal and a trickle of tears. One baby after another in Malawi is getting
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