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Tanzania: How Speed-Dating Practice Can Boost Science Journalism

Dar es Salaam. Imagine being a scientist, toiling away in your lab, making revolutionary discoveries that could potentially improve people’s lives. But your research...
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Tanzanian AI Health Scientists Navigate A ‘Data Desert’ 

In their quest to digitise cancer screening in Tanzania using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Sang’udi Sang’udi and his team of scientists face a significant challenge:...
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First Cohort of Medical Journalism Program From MedicoPRESS Joins UDSM

The first cohort of the Medical Journalism Program under MedicoPRESS, who constitute scientists with a background in biology and medicine, have joined the School...
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Silent But Grave Heart Disease Preying  On Young Hearts

Imagine a seemingly ordinary sore throat, the kind that you may have experienced during cold seasons. You’ve perhaps relieved the itchiness with a pill...
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Tanzanian health journalist wins award for reporting on infertility

Boniface Mashaka, the chairman of the Association of Tanzania Health Journalists (ATHJ), is among 13 winners of the “MeRCK More Than a Mother” Media...
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Medical journalism: Another way to write about science

Can you be both a medical writer and a medical journalist? Yes, but it involves a change in mindset. For example, the information required...
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East Africa: When ‘heart-broken’ scientists stop talking to journalists; who will intervene?

Recently, as countries commemorated World Malaria Day, there was an emerging controversy in East Africa on the safety of bed nets used in the...
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Why medical doctors can’t escape the media, testimony from BMJ

Managing the Media : Media handling is not part of medical training, but talkig to the press can often come with the job.Cath Janes...
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