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Dec
21, 2011. MiMW was started to redirect highly trained science and
health professionals (MS, MD, PharmD, MBBS, MBBCh, RN, RD, RPharm) to
careers in the pharmaceutical industry, and to help professionals write
documents including resumes, business letters, grant proposals, business
plans, manuscripts, posters, PowerPoint presentations). Listen to a
30-minute MJoTA audio on what MiMW requires from students, and what it
will do for you, click here.
Dec 19, 2011. So
glad that someone reported dead is alive, which is what happened today
with a rock star named Jon Bon Jovi. That also happened in the late
19th century, when Alfred Nobel read his own obituary and decided it
wasn't memorable enough. So he left his fortune, about $4.5million, to
give prizes to the best in 5 categories,
which were first awarded in 1901. The Nobel Prize is the world's richest prize. You can listen to an audio recording
of me talking about Nobel Prizes awarded for diabetes on
drsusanna.org/mjotatalks.html. Listen to a 30-minute MJoTA audio on Nobel Prizes awarded for diabetes research, click here.
Dec 13, 2011. In
Nigeria dried orange peels are burned to repel mosquitoes, and in
Kenya, pyrethrum bushes are planted around houses for the same purpose. Click here
for 3 stories about plants that repel malaria mosquitoes. The practical
article is the 3rd, the other 2 articles are extensive reviews of
literature.
Dec 7, 2011. Three
stories about HIV in Zimbabwe (a story of an old women whose adult
children mostly died from HIV/AIDS), South Africa (an article about
respiratory disease that accompanies AIDS symptoms) and the countries of
southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi,
Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda,
Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Nyanza Province in Kenya) (male circumcision prevents some HIV infections). Read them on Daily Updates, click here.
Dec 5, 2011. News
from Africa of health professionals and patients striking and demanding
from their governments a decent living wage. From Kenya, a physician's
strike, they are demanding a 300% increase in pay: fuel costs have gone
up 14 times in the past year, click here.
From Nigeria, a 2-year-old report of nurses demanding equal pay with
physicians of the same seniority, and the current aims and objectives of
the professional nurses association, click here. From Sierra Leone, a demand from disabled persons for care and support from the government, click here.
The civil war, which ended 10 years ago, which killed many family
members of MJoTA supporters left many civilians and soldiers without
limbs and with severe disabilities. For stories about Sierra Leone,
click here. For today's 3 stories, go to Daily Updates, click here.
Nov 29, 2011. Manhattan.
District Attorney's office held a press conference for African media.
Most African media did not bother to show. The DA did a terrific job
bringing all kinds of experts on domestic violence and most the seats
were empty. Bottom line, if you are or know a victim of domestic
violence without papers, report it and no-one will try to deport anyone,
in fact, they will help you get papers and housing. And if the perp is a
first-time offender, he won't have to be criminally charged, maybe as a
misdemeanor. Unless he stabs you or shoots you or shoves your head down
the toilet or throws you out a window or something: then he's a
criminal and you may not be around to tell anyone. Three articles to
tell you what to do, and the high cost of domestic violence, click on
Daily Updates for all 3, click here; or for each article separately, click here, here and here.
Nov 28, 2011. MJoTA
Publisher listened again to the Gilead HIV/AIDS educator talk about the
need to prevent HIV infection in Camden at a Mosque. MJoTA was struck,
yet again, at the lack of warning against oral sex; the trend that has
been reported to the Publisher is that African men with multiple sexual
partners in the United States either do not use condoms, or only use
condoms after oral sex. The data are sparse, but MJoTA believes they are
there: condom use will not over-ride infections transmitted through
oral sex. Click here for 3 small articles on HIV/AIDS.
Nov 25, 2011. Insomnia
shortens lives, and can be fatal. Read an article on insomnia leading
to early death, and 2 articles on drugs that help people sleep, click here.
Nov 18, 2011. November is Diabetes Month and MJoTA has long had a focus on diabetes.
Read 3 stories about diabetes in Daily Updates (click here) and search
for articles about diabetes above. Or you can listen to audio about
diabetes, and read the first 2 issues of American Journal of Diabetes,
of which MJoTA Publisher was founding editor-in-chief and graphic
designer. Click here.
Nov 12, 2011. At first, these tips from New Jersey's Dale Carnegie Training may seem
quaint, entirely irrelevant to African communities, and only relevant anywhere
when the economy is booming and employees have a choice about where they can
work. However, they are exceedingly relevant, because national governments in Nigeria, Kenya,
Sierra Leone
are not following the basic principles of keeping their health employees happy, click here for article.
Nov 11, 2011. Brain
disorders affecting children and adults arise because their heads have
been hit, shot at (and today we honor the veterans of wars, click here for
story), because they have been seriously ill, and because they were
born with the disorders. Frequently the disorders take years to surface,
Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease are examples. Three
articles on autism from the US NIH and Carnegie Mellon University, click
to them on Daily Updates, click here.
Nov 9, 2011. Essay
about innovation from manager at DELL. He talks about how maps were
made in Africa, and quotes Henry Ford, the innovative manufacturer of
the first mass-produced motor car: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." Click here.
Nov 8, 2011. Liberia has a run-off election and will vote to decide whether Africa's first woman president, Nobel Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, will remain in office. Who is President Sirleaf? Story, click here.
Nov 6, 2011. Caribbean Radio Show talks about
health, click
here.
Nov 4, 2011. Two audio podcasts, Cancer in the
Caribbean, and also HIV in Zambia click here.
Nov 3, 2011. Discussing health in African
communities in Africa and abroad, click here.
Oct 25, 2011. Clinical trials, click here
for a page in which you can read about the history of clinical trials, what
they are, and their significance in countries on the African continent.
Oct 23, 2011. India
has for well over a century had a strong presence in East Africa and South Africa.
Indian manufacturers supplies most of the prescription medicines to East Africa. MJoTA has published several articles
highlighting Indian contribution to the health industry in sub-Saharan
countries of Africa. Click here.
Oct 19, 2011. Malaria vaccines. Press releases
on progress developing a vaccine that prevents children from getting malaria,
see Daily Updates, click here. Articles published about malaria in MJoTA, click here.
Oct 14, 2011. Breast cancer kills women: it
killed Elizabeth Edwards JD, estranged wife of vice-presidential candidate John
Edwards JD. Why did it kill her? How did it kill her? Who is at risk for this
disease and why? Information on Daily Updates, click here. MJoTA
cancer resources, including audio podcasts, click here.
Oct 8, 2011. The
first African woman
Peace Nobel Laureate, Professor Dr Wangari Maathi, was laid to rest in
Nairobi after 10 days of mourning her death on September 25, 2011. Read
about her click here.
Oct 7, 2011. In
the early years of the 21st
century, Liberian women reached across the church and mosque aisles and
ended
the bloody war and elected a woman president, and how that woman is
kicking
butt today. They were recognized in a film (Walt Disney's niece was one
of
those making it) and they are turning Liberia around, President Ellen is
making everyone behave. Two African women from Liberia won Nobel Prizes
for their efforts, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee
along with a
Middle East Arab woman from Yemen,
Tawakkul Karman. Read the story of the
restoration of peace in Liberia,
a film review of "Cry the Devil Back to Hell" by Diane Ferraiolo MA, click here. More on Leymah Gbowee, click here.
More on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, click
here. Read about other African
Nobel laureates click here.
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