Yearly Archives: 2016
Medicare Proposal Aims to Prevent Diabetes (NYT)
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans on Wednesday to propose expanding Medicare to cover programs to prevent diabetes among mill...
New dengue vaccine shows promise (CNN)
(CNN)A new type of dengue vaccine called TV003 seems to protect people against at least one type of the virus, according to a small stu...
New York to Discard Prescription Pads, and Doctors’ Handwriting, in Digital Shift (NYT)
One morning this month, Silvia Cota, a nurse supervisor in the emergency room at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, gathered her nurses ...
(National Interest) Senegal: The Linchpin of Security in West Africa
Seth J. Frantzman
March 14, 2016
Senegalese military personnel are voting in a national referendum on March 13. The rest of S...
(NYT) Carson Endorses the Demagogue
Charles M. Blow | MARCH 13, 2016
On Friday, I watched yet another bizarre scene from an already bizarre election cycle: The affable bu...
(Raw Story) How Hillary Clinton cornered the black vote
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
08 MAR 2016 AT 09:34 ET
Hillary Clinton is on a roll. If her candidacy ever looked in doubt to an insurgent Be...
Innotribe opens doors for East African fintech startups (IT News Africa)
Swift expects even greater innovation and a shift away from mobile technology at the 2016 Innotribe Startup Challenge for Africa. The C...
Farewell white-haired men, meet the new rich Africans: young, hip millennials willing to spend (IMG Africa)
THE profile of a rich African is shifting from older white-haired males to younger, hip millennials who have found new ways to make and...
New Procedure Allows Kidney Transplants From Any Donor (NYT)
In the anguishing wait for a new kidney, tens of thousands of patients on waiting lists may never find a match because their immune sys...
Has Cancer’s weak spot be found? (CNN)
(CNN)A new breakthrough in cancer research could lead to a novel form of cancer treatment -- one that is highly specialized for each pa...