Four years ago when I was at St Kizito Hospital in Mikumi, Morogoro Region, I coordinated outreach screening services for hypertension, diabetes, breast, and cervical cancer as part of creating and raising community awareness on Non-communicable Diseases in the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) Eleventh Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) has now come into effect, with the latest update going online today.
The ICD provides a common language that allows health professionals to share standardized information...
When the country is tense, say at the height of a disease outbreak or other health threats, Oscar Mwashiuya’s job entails being on the scene, tracking the source of trouble and averting it.
Mwashiuya is a field epidemiologist or often...
Your article on this website, titled: Tanzania: Why doctors quit practice for non-medical jobs, raises pertinent issues for our healthcare systems, not only for Tanzania but East Africa and may be Africa in general.
The migration of trained health personnel...
Past modelling shows 50% may not be practising medicine by 2025
Some doctors say there is more creativity in private sector such as NGOs, than public sector
Researchers call for innovative ways to retain medical doctors in practice
The...
Clinicians have been urged to consider recommending a COVID-19 test for patients who happen to be diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)—a potentially life-threatening illness that develops when a person’s immune system attacks their own nerves.
Guillain-Barré Syndrome is often triggered...
Major African research projects have been disrupted after international donors withdrew funding from the continent’s science academy due to a long-running governance crisis, a SciDev.Net investigation has found.
Science and research programmes have been moved from the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) to a...
You’ve visited the hospital with a nagging swelling on your skin. Your doctor suggests that a small part of the swelling will be sliced off so that a specialist can examine it and establish what you are actually suffering...
The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) is beginning to reclaim its lost glory. It was the first university in Tanzania to offer a medical degree, way back in 1968 but almost 40 years later, the varsity stopped producing...
Patient opts not to receive cancer treatment despite efforts to save his lifeResearcher leading the doctors explains why the case is rareElectrical signals controlling patient’s heartbeats were completely blocked
For over 30 years, a 67-year old man, retired agromechanic from...