U.S-based Izzy Care’s co- founder Joswell Valdez says the firm has plans of revolutionizing healthcare provision across Africa as it set sights on operating on the continent.

Valdez says the company which has developed app based consultations will give enrollees an unlimited access to teams of high level doctors, psychologists and wellness coaches.

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(AETOS Wire) -- Octapharma announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved an extension of marketing authorisation for its human cell line-derived recombinant factor VIII (rFVIII) product, Nuwiq®. New single dose vial strengths of 2500, 3000 and 4000 International Units (IU) will be available in Europe, in addition to the current strengths of 250, 500, 1000 and 2000 IU.

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Brightree, the leading provider of cloud-based software helping post-acute care companies improve business performance and patient outcomes, announced the release of a new solution that allows home medical equipment (HME) providers to digitally receive orders from more than 62,000 providers using athenaClinicals within the athenahealth network, the same way doctors have long referred patients to other specialists. Before eReferral Management, physician and HME staff had to manually send, receive and process referrals and related documents via faxing and phone calls. Now, any office that uses athenahealth, a leading provider of network-enabled services for hospital and ambulatory clients nationwide, can refer patients to an HME provider the same way that they refer patients to other care settings, forwarding equipment orders directly from their electronic health records (EHR) system to the......

Large quantities of vaccines for children have reportedly been rendered useless after the Commissioner of Gala El Nahal locality in Sudan’s El Gedaref allegedly ordered a temperature-controlled UN vehicle to be used to transport passengers.

Voluntary workers of Gala El Nahal locality in El Gedaref hold the locality commissioner responsible for the destruction of “large quantities of immunization vaccines for children”.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday announced the launch of a project to provide health care to roughly 242,000 people in the war-torn Darfur state of western Sudan.

The UN agency explained that the project comes in order to bridge the health gap in nine villages in the East Jebel Mara locality at an estimated cost of $1.6 million.

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The spread of measles in West Darfur has prompted the state Ministry of Health to develop a plan to combat the disease. In Red Sea state, two people died of an unknown fever during the weekend.

On Saturday, the director of the Vaccination Department of the West Darfur Ministry of Health, Abdallah Omar told reporters in El Geneina that the number of confirmed measles cases amount to ten cases – out of 90-suspected cases.

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(AETOS Wire) -- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today the findings of an abstract presented at Euroanaesthesia 2018 in which researchers compared Masimo Patient State Index (PSi), a processed EEG parameter provided by SedLine® brain function monitoring (in this study, first generation SedLine), to Medtronic Bispectral Index (BIS™) in monitoring the depth of anesthesia of two groups of patients: healthy volunteers undergoing hepatotomy for liver donation and cirrhotic patients undergoing liver resection. The researchers found “excellent” agreement between the two methods as well as similar sevoflurane consumption, and found that PSi 1.0 was less affected by electrocautery.1 In the study, Dr. Yassen and colleagues at Menoufia University in Shibin El Kom, Egypt, sought to test agreement between two brain function monitoring indices, Masimo PSi and Medtronic BIS. They monitored......

The number of people in Kassala state suffering from malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS increased in 2017. The maternal mortality rate rose as well.

According to the Kassala state Ministry of Health, 126 out of 100,000 women died in childbirth in 2017.

In a report published last week, the Ministry announced that the spread of malaria intensified last year.

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South Sudan is on the verge of eradicating guinea worm since no transmission was reported in the country last year and the first quarter of 2018, a senior official said on Friday.

Makur Matur Kariom, the Undersecretary in the Ministry of Health, said South Sudan will soon achieve the goal of total guinea worm eradication thanks to targeted interventions like improved hygiene and public awareness.

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Authorities of the Yei town council have launched a campaign to keep Yei town clean and green. The campaign targets residential areas, markets, streets and public utilities.

The clerk of Yei town council, Alfathi Morgan told Radio Tamazuj the campaign also aims at keeping the environment clean to control the outbreak of diseases.

Alfathi said any person found without a"...