US based Operation of Hope in collaboration with Beit CURE Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi Africa will provide free cleft lip and cleft palate re constructive surgeries. (split in lip and/or hole in mouth) WHEN: Screening day: Saturday 17, August, 2013. 8am All potential patients are encouraged to attend screening day...

The United Nations and its partners on May 15 announced that tetanus has been wiped out in more than 30 countries, including Vietnam, which previously had high rates of the illness. According to a report of the Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination Initiative, since 1999, more than 118 million women of child-bearing...

At the turn of the last century, the call to action to bring to bear tools such as insecticide-treated bed nets, malaria rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapies, was heard. Governments, foundations, non-profit groups, and the commercial sector mobilized to stem the tide against an ancient...

Africa’s rapidly aging population is developing disabilities that limit their ability to be productive, according to a study conducted by researchers in the U.S. and Malawi.  It also found that women and men 45 years of age had severe limitations comparable to 80 year olds in the US. Researchers at the University of...

They say research is formalized curiosity… to poke and pry with a purpose. When Dr. Trehan noticed something odd in two of his Malawian patients, he began to poke and pry for an explanation. His work has led to novel insights that our health and nutritional well being is truly more than what we eat. In 2007, Dr. Indi...

The Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS) has encouraged students to take part in the on-going blood donation day in order to help hospitals in meeting demand for the blood. Speaking with the media reporters this morning on the sidelines of the donation session, MBTS Senior Clinic Nurse Linda Namalomba said people should...

A pair of local researchers has won a prestigious award for global innovation that highlights some pretty incredible students at Rice University making a difference in the world. The scientists are Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden, two bioengineers at Rice. The award is the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for...

European Commission has issued the following press release: The European Commission has announced that it will support Malawi in its efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) related to water and sanitation. The new programme will be focussed on the most vulnerable population in 15 districts and 7 cities, who...

Queen Elizabeth Central Hopsital (QECH) has been recording 30,000 cases of typhoid fever every month since January this year the hospital confirmed. “The hospital has been receiving an increasing number of typhoid fever suspects mostly children since last year,” said Qech Hospital Director Dr Andrew Gonani in a...

According to new research published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and lower middle income Guatemala, are leading the charge against hunger and undernutrition, whilst economic powerhouses such as India and Nigeria are failing some of their most vulnerable...

Doreen Namasala has been a community health worker for over a decade in rural Malawi, a small landlocked country in southeast Africa. With a population of roughly 15 million, an estimated 60 percent of women report having serious problems accessing health care due to distance, according to the country’s ministry of...

SOMETIMES, the blindingly obvious is not actually correct. Malnutrition, for instance, is obviously caused by a lack of food. And yet, as a paper published in this week’s Science by Jeffrey Gordon and his colleagues at Washington University, in St Louis, points out, that is not always a complete explanation. Dr...

Over a hundred people attended this 3rd Malawi Mental Health conference. This 2 days annual conference took place in Mzuzu in the Northern part of Malawi, Africa. It was an outstanding opportunity for people working or doing research in mental health in Southern Africa to network, discuss, learn and get inspired by...

The Siamese twin babies that were born in Thyolo in December last year have died. The babies died on Sunday at Thyolo District where they were born on December 3, 2012. They succumbed to heart failure, according to district health officials. “We lost them yesterday (Monday) at around 5pm. it was heart failure. One of...

In Malawi, where the healthcare system frequently makes headlines for its shortages of drugs and medical workers, a fact that is often overlooked is that two out of four central hospitals do not have a specialist physician in attendance. “A lot of conditions are not appropriately diagnosed because they are seen by...

People who have a high heart rate (pulse) at rest have an increased risk of death even if they are physically fit and healthy, according to a new study in the journal Heart. A resting heart rate is the number of beats per minute when somebody has been sitting or lying down for ten minutes. Those with a resting heart rate...