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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Potential for Medical Journalism in Kenya
Before landing in Kenya, my doctor had me get shots for typhoid, tetanus, cholera, yellow fever, and meningitis.…
Medical journalism: Another way to write about science
By Jo Whelan, Textpharm Ltd, Oxford, UK jo@textpharm.com Abstract True journalism differs from public relations and uncritically reproducing…