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An Innovative Community-Based Programme for Preparing Nurses
The health system of South Africa can only be as good as the people who work in it,“ says Professor Thembisile Khanyile, Director of University of the Western Cape School of Nursing. “The strategy is to increase the number of nurses to provide primary care…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Partners in Development of The National Hospital of Pediatrics
The National Hospital of Pediatrics (NHP) is the anchor of paediatric medicine in Viet Nam. It is the preeminent specialty hospital that helps children with serious health problems in the northern and central regions. The hospital in Ha Noi is also the main teaching and…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Source: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
Night and a Day in QueenstownPosted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South AfricaAs Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two reasons. First, we’d…
Resource type: News
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Feeney's 'remarkable' donation will advance the entire field of Australian biomedical research
Source: Philanthropy UK
By Ben Eyre The biggest private donation to a medical research facility in Australian history has been made by Atlantic Philanthropies, the charitable foundation of media-shy multi-billion-dollar philanthropist Chuck Feeney. The AU102.5m (£50.8m) donation to scientific research in Queensland, included a record-breaking $50m (£24.8m) grant…
Resource type: News
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Commonly used medications may produce cognitive impairment in older adults
Source: Indiana University (Release)
INDIANAPOLIS - Many drugs commonly prescribed to older adults for a variety of common medical conditions including allergies, hypertension, asthma, and cardiovascular disease appear to negatively affect the aging brain causing immediate but possibly reversible cognitive impairment, including delirium, in older adults according to a…
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$125 Million Is Pledged to Big Medical Center
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By STEPHANIE STROM Despite a worldwide economic decline, the nine-figure gift is not dead. Charles F. Feeney, the iconoclastic philanthropist known as “the billionaire who wasn’t,” is giving $125 million to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center to support development of a complex…
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Drummond: Finding solutions to help high school dropouts
Source: Oakland Tribune
By Tammerlin Drummond In Oakland and in other cities around the country, students have been dropping out of high school in droves. The numbers for African-Americans are especially dire: Those leaving school versus those graduating have been virtually neck and neck. That was before the…
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Report Sounds Alarm on Child Accidents
by DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Around the globe, accidents kill 830,000 children -- the equivalent of all the children in Chicago -- every year, according to a report issued Tuesday by the World Health Organization and Unicef. The report, the first to collect all known…
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2,000 disabled people to lose EUR6,500 a year
Source: Irish Examiner
by Mary Regan AT least 2,010 people with disabilities will lose EUR6,500 a year because of measures introduced in Budget 2009, according to Fine Gael who said this was more confirmation that the most vulnerable have been targeted. The Disability Allowance, which was previously paid…
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American Cancer Society Awarded Grant to Work with Vietnam Businesses on Tobacco Control
Source: Global Fight Against Cancer
Original Source The American Cancer Society has been awarded a two-year grant by Atlantic Philanthropies to fight the tobacco burden in Vietnam. The Society will team up with the Vietnam Committee on Smoking and Health (VINACOSH) to develop a national tobacco control media advocacy strategy…
Resource type: News