7th December 2015
When Gabrielle Jackson suggested writing a column about her experience with this debilitating disease, she discovered that many of her female colleagues at Guardian Australia were silently suffering from endometriosis, too. The next thing she knew, a global awareness campaign ...
1st December 2015
We’ve come a long way since the first cases of HIV/AIDS were reported over 30 years ago, causing widespread panic, a lot of questions and few answers. Back then, by the time patients were diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency ...
27th October 2015
What are the deadliest diseases in Africa? HIV/AIDS and malaria, right? Surprising as it might be, cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death for people over 30 in African countries. In Cameroon this problem is real. But another ...
1st October 2015
Hasan's daughters, Duaa and Shahd, were aged just one and four years old, respectively, when a rocket hit their house in Syria. Now doctors at a clinic in Jordan are working to rehabilitate them and hundreds of other victims of ...
28th September 2015
What do you do if your three-year-old gets tired after walking just one block and almost faints and turns purple when crying? Cynthia had these symptoms because she was letting out large amounts of blood through a small hole in ...
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 ...
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 ...