The brown charred lines on restaurant food are created either by cooking the food on a chargrill or by placing very hot skewers on the cooked food in a trellis pattern. Charcoal-fuelled chargrills, similar to indoor barbecues, are available for

Dr Malick S Njie, secretary of state for Health and Social Welfare opened the conference with over 100 delegates and experts hailing from the sub-region with the objective to review the current concept of primary eye care in West Africa

Most of the 31 Tuberculosis (TB) patients who had run away from a hospital in Port Elizabeth to be with their families over Easter have returned.

AS part of her contribution in the drive to reduce infant mortality within Warri and its environ the Rotary Club of Warri (District 9140) yesterday presented two incubators worth millions of naira to the management of the Central Hospital, Warri,

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello has defended herself in the reported utilization of unspent 2007 funds of the Federal Ministry of Health saying the N10 million channeled to her Committee was in the public

The National Agency For The Control of AIDS (NACA) has revealed that an estimated sixty one percent of Nigerians that are newly infected with HIV/AIDS are women and young girls.

Many Namibians are either overweight or obese, a dietician has said.

Action Congress (AC), has said everyone involved in the N300 million unspent budget scandal in the Ministry of Health should be made to face the full wrath of the law.

Kenya's Professor Miriam Were was yesterday named Japan's outstanding achiever (laureate) for the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prizes.

Zamfara State government has ordered vaccines for cerebra-spinal-meningitis (CSM), worth N23 million, to curb the spread of the disease in the state and awarded N500million contract to combat Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF).

The Gamtel/Gamcel Staff Asociation yesterday presented three cheques amounting to D650,000 to President Alhaji Dr. Yahya Jammeh for the First Lady's Opertion Save a Baby initiative, the President's Women Empowerment Programme, the President's HIV/AIDs Treatment Programme and the Royal Victoria

Global Challenges

ZIMBABWE'S beleaguered hospitality industry has managed to maintain its staff levels, despite viability problems caused by hostile government policies and an accelerating staff exodus to South Africa, The Financial Gazette can report.

Jubilee's medical business grew by 34 per cent in 2007, cementing its position as a market leader.

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), an inter-governmental organisation working on migration, has called for the fight against the spread of Avian and Human Influenza (AHI) pandemic within the Federal Capital Territory.

The number of cholera cases reported in the Engela Health District has risen to 455, while the number of deaths remains at two, the Director of Health in the Oshana Region, Dr Naftali Hamata, says.

Federal Capital Territory health and human services secretariat has celebrated its world tuberculosis day with a promise to renew and accelerate its commitment to the fight against the dreaded disease.

A billboard put up in Dar es Salaam recently has stirred up a lot of controversy. It's the work of an NGO, Human Life International, and depicts a skeleton, seeming to imply that condoms are not effective protection against contracting

Image Solutions, Inc. (ISI), a leading provider of software and services to streamline the drug development and regulatory approval process, today announced that world-leading global pharmaceutical group Boehringer Ingelheim has deployed eCTDXPress - the company's flagship solution for managing and

Dr. Valentin Fuster, presents Dr. Daniel Levy of Framingham Heart Study and Dr. Kamwe Akosah of University of Virginia the SHAPE Lifetime Achievement Award during the event; "Approaches to SHAPE the future of Primary Prevention: The New Framingham Risk Score