en-gh-hotdailynews: 2015-08-29 Ghana Health

RI Director of Public Health to Chair AIDS Walk RI Event
GoLocalProv
Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD, MPH, the State's Director of Public Health, will be an honorary chair of the annual AIDS Walk RI that is happening on Sunday, September 13. The walk starts and ends at the Rhode Island State House and begins a noon with ...

A Pocket Of Forlorn Villages In Fatehpur District Rues A City Disease   Outlook India
Over 60 pct of HIV people likely to quit treatment as donors cut funding   Thanh Nien Daily

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GhanaWeb

Roundup: Ebola scare hampers Africa's int'l tourism growth
GlobalPost
by Justice Lee Adoboe. ACCRA, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Tourism became one of the sectors where growth suffered in 2014 as a result of the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in parts of West Africa. Although the outbreak was largely restricted to ...
Ebola Mission donates equipment   GhanaWeb

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NBCNews.com

The UK Scientists Look into Blood-borne Cancer DNA Markers In Breast Cancer ...
Pioneer News
Scientists in the United Kingdom have recently shown that DNA from cancer cells can be released into the bloodstream and then monitored by doctors to determine how well a treatment is working in women who have breast cancer. This is a recent discovery ...

Blood test analyzes DNA markers to detect breast cancer relapse   NYC Today
Powerful blood test can predict breast cancer relapse   ModVive
Predicting a possibly dreadful future: blood tests detecting early stages of ...   Morning Ticker
Business Insider
State Column
Pulse Headlines
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Drug Discovery & Development

Training on Malaria Test Use Does Not Lead to Appropriate Treatment, Research ...
Infection Control Today
Health providers trained to perform malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) are still prescribing valuable malaria medicines to patients who do not have malaria, according to new research published in PLOS ONE. Almost 5,000 participants from 40 ...
Health Workers Wasting Expensive Malaria Drugs in Nigeria   Drug Discovery & Development
Health personnel given refresher training   GhanaWeb
Refresher training organised for health care providers   BusinessGhana

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Voice of America

Once-a-Week HIV Injections May Free Millions From Pills
Voice of America
An injectable HIV treatment is entering advanced clinical trials, potentially freeing millions of men and women living with the virus from pills. Developers say the once-a-week injections could help people living with HIV lead more normal lives. The ...
AIDS: HIV Not Culprit   News Every day
New Research Looks at HIV and AIDS in A New, Leading to More Potential ...   Pioneer News
HIV Particles Don't Directly Cause AIDS, Immune Cell Response Does   Science World Report
Business Standard
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Fox News

'Unicorn woman' appeals for help as rare condition causes horn-like growth
Fox News
An elderly villager has become known as the "unicorn woman" after an abnormal growth on her head appeared to take the shape of a single large horn. (CEN). A woman with an abnormal growth on her head that appears to be in the shape of a large horn has ...

Elderly Woman Didn't Think Anything of It At First—8 Years Later, This Is ...   IJ Review
Relieved: Woman with unicorn horns to get surgery   Pulse.com.gh
Meet the Unicorn Woman Who Has an Actual Horn   First to Know
Cosmopolitan UK
Carbonated.tv (blog)
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International flavour: Foreign athletes coming for Millennium Marathon
AllSports.com.gh
With a week to go for the first ever real International Marathon in Ghana, expectations are very high for a Ghanaian to win the first prize at stake however the strong presence of foreigners has made the Run unpredictable. Over ten thousand people have ...

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