Ethiopia constructing over 110 million Birr worth health facilities
30 Aug 2009: Work on the construction of 442 health facilities launched in Somali State at a cost of over 110 million Birr is well in progress, the State's Health Bureau said. Bureau Deputy Head, Yusuf Mohammed told ENA on Saturday that the health facilities areDiscovery of epilepsy gene paves way for more effective treatments
04 Aug 2009: A genetic defect that could be responsible for up to half of all cases of epilepsy has been identified by scientists. In about 50 per cent of cases, the onset of epilepsy is linked with an obvious cause, such as a head injury, brain tumour or anotherAlert over China plague outbreak
03 Aug 2009: Authorities in China have imposed a quarantine on a remote town in the country's northwest amid an outbreak of pneumonic plague that has killed two people and triggered a health alert. About a dozen other people living in the town Ziketan in QinghaiSwine Flu Plc: Cashing in on the pandemic
26 Jul 2009: Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer for England, hit the swine flu panic button last week, warning the outbreak is confronting the NHS with its "biggest challenge in a generation". But that didn't mean everyone caught up in the hysteria that hasDoctors demand Yoram Blachar resign as ethics chief over Israeli torture
22 Jun 2009: More than 700 doctors from 43 countries have written a letter of protest to their governing ethical body, the World Medical Association, alleging that its recently appointed Israeli president has turned a blind eye to the involvement of medical staff inChristian fundamentalist shot dead abortion doctor inside US church
31 May 2009: A doctor who was one of the few in the US to continue carrying out late-term abortions was shot dead in a church today. George Tiller, 67, who had been picketed, bombed and shot in the arms in previous incidents, was killed at his church in Kansas,Papers prove Trafigura ship dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast
14 May 2009: Documents have emerged which detail for the first time the potentially lethal nature of toxic waste dumped by British-based oil traders in one of west Africa's poorest countries. More than 30,000 people from Ivory Coast claim they were affected by theSwine flu pandemic: The pigs' revenge
02 May 2009: In modern disaster management theory, when any large system experiences a major shock or failure, you assess the risk, activate an ordered emergency response, and manage the after-effects. In the world of real people hit directly by the real shock, youDial 777 for an ambulance
15 Apr 2009: Rufai Mohamed Salad risks life and limb to provide daily ambulance services in war-torn Mogadishu, a city where even the largest hospital does not have an ambulance. Salad and a friend, Mahamud Abdirahman Ali, came up with the idea of providing anMohamed Yusuf is director-general of Madina Hospital
08 Apr 2009: Mohamed Yusuf is director-general of Madina Hospital, the largest in Mogadishu. He is also one of the most senior surgeons left in the capital. He returned to Somalia in 2002 after working overseas for several years. Like some of his colleagues, he hasEmergency surgery saves Somali twin
30 Mar 2009: RIYADH: A team of doctors headed by Health Minister Abdullah Al-Rabeeah saved the life of one Somali conjoined twin born on Thursday. In response to an appeal made by Fartoon Sheikh, mother of the Somali twins, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King'Backward' Palestinian Healthcare
06 Mar 2009: CAIRO — Health standards in the occupied Palestinian territories have badly deteriorated, exacerbated by Israel's military occupation and stifling restrictions, a medical study found on Thursday, March 5. "Since 2000, the occupied Palestinian territoryHeart warning on African herb use
29 May 2006: Doctors have issued a warning about severe heart problems associated with chewing Khat leaves. The dangers of the drug have been highlighted by the case of a young man who suffered a major heart attack. Long-term use could also increase risk of liverAlarm over Turkey bird flu
11 Jan 2006: Turkey has stepped up efforts to halt an outbreak of deadly bird flu as a UN body warned that the virus risked becoming firmly established there and posed a serious threat to neighbouring countries. The virus has been found in birds in a third of TurkishThird bird flu death as 25 ill
06 Jan 2006: A third child from the same family is reported to have died after being treated for bird flu and a further 25 people are in hospital in eastern Turkey showing possible syptoms of the disease. The Anatolian state news agency named the dead child asCommission To Coordinate Anti-HIV/AIDS Efforts
21 Oct 2005: HARGEYSA, 18 October (IRIN) - Authorities in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, northeastern Somalia, launched on Saturday a commission to coordinate efforts to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS. The Puntland AIDS Commission (PAC) wasslashnews
CIA accused of ordering kidnap of former Pakistani spy
The wife of Khalid Khawaja claims that her husband, who was once a confidante of Osama bin Laden, was taken at the request of the American intelligence service as he travelled through Pakistan's lawless tribal belt. On Monday a group calling itself the
Yemen court upholds Israel spy's death sentence
A death sentence for a Yemeni man, Bassam Abdullah al-Haidari, convicted of spying for Israel has been upheld by an appeals court. In March 2009, a state security court sentenced the 27-year-old to death after convicting him of establishing contacts with
Mosque building brings Islamophobia fears to Poland
In a sight familiar in some west European countries but new to Poland, dozens of protesters demonstrated in a Warsaw suburb last weekend against the construction of a mosque. Plans by Poland's tiny Muslim community to build a place of worship and an
Puntland president meets with Ethiopian FM
The president of Somalia's Puntland State government Dr. Abdirahman Mohammed Farole has held meeting with Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Seyoum Mesfin in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The meeting which was held in Hotel Sharaton, where Puntland