Shweta is a wife and a mother of two little ones. She currently lives in Belgium.
4th September 2015
Measles are often thought to be a plague of the past, an ancient evil which only haunts some remote areas of the earth, caused by a virus so rare, vaccinations are superfluous. A trip to the past In ancient history, ...
27th August 2015
Now that the Ebola pandemic has come to a close, we count the costs, assign the responsibilities and define the lessons to be learnt. MedTech can go a long way, but without the right people, education and training, the battle ...
18th August 2015
Vaccines are a base to medicine, just as the way they are placed in our body: with a needle and a syringe. It has been so for the last 160 years. Biomedical engineering in Australia stomped and decided it’s time ...
5th August 2015
When the winter months drag on, it often occurs that chocolate becomes a good friend, exercise seems increasingly unappealing and big dinners are a regular occurrence. At this time, especially among us ladies, the weight creeps in. But usually, as ...
22nd July 2015
Jay Nickolaus was the jolly old age of 61 when he decided to undertake the climb to Kilimanjaro. If you’re like me, your first introduction to this monument of mountains was Disney’s The Lion King, where it appears as ...
10th July 2015
For mothers like Posha, Lexina, Luchrecia, Rita, Queen and Siphiwe the news that they were pregnant didn’t come with quite as much joy as it does for most expectant mothers. Each year, approximately 1.5 million women living with HIV give ...
22nd June 2015
It’s not breaking news but it simply BEGS a closer look. Find out how one man’s ingenious idea brought Indian women from ash and sand to the ‘next level’ of female hygiene. In the Western world we don’...
4th June 2015
When we use a radio, we switch it on, tune into the station we want to listen to and then adjust the volume by turning it up and down. Could we switch conditions like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s off ...
17th May 2015
Health experts have long advocated the need to look beyond pregnant women to reduce HIV transmission from mothers to their children. Ellon Mabaasa and her team think getting male partners involved will help, and they’ve got the numbers to ...
6th May 2015
Pink ribbons remind us to take cancer seriously and get ourselves checked out, but in places where “pink” has yet to catch on, organisations like PATH are stepping in. So at some point in spring, Europe becomes aglow with pink, ...
