Nigeria vows healthcare action after death of author’s child
Mansur Abubakar,AbujaandMakuochi Okafor,BBC Africa, LagosEPAPopular author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie alleges her toddler was denied oxygen and excessively sedated, leading to...
Month: January 2026
Patient-facing EHR tool improves lung cancer screening identification
A simple nudge delivered through the electronic health record may help close one of lung cancer screening’s most stubborn gaps:...
Death of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s son prompts calls for overhaul of Nigeria’s healthcare sector | Nigeria
Nigerians have called for urgent reforms to the healthcare sector after the death of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 21-month-old son prompted...
Vitamin B3 can reduce skin cancer development
Discovering an effective vitamin B3-based treatment for reducing skin cancer in Veterans A VA study has shed new light on...
Optimizing Outcomes of Lung Transplant (Podcast)
Demand for usable donor lungs for transplant in the United States still outstrips supply despite decades of efforts to close...
Global health: new approaches to healthcare
Professor Dr Till Bärnighausen is the Director of the at the Heidelberg University Hospital. The medical expert teaches at Harvard...
Skin in the game: How accountable care can fight fraud while helping patients
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) aim to improve patient care by managing their conditions and maintaining access to affordable care.To do...
Leumit becomes first in Israel to offer advanced lung tests in community clinics
Leumit Start, the innovation arm of Leumit Health Services, has signed a first-of-its-kind collaboration in Israel with Israeli company TechnoPulm,...
Engineered Skin “Living Sensor Display” Lights Up for Biological Monitoring
Credit: Alex Raths/Getty Images Wearable health devices, such as smartwatches, have become commonplace and enable continuous monitoring of physiological signals...
