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Can we use ZUMBANI A traditional medicine for treatment of COVID19?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultu...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | 965 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Wonder COVID-19 drug' Ivermectin works through inhibiting viral replication: Dr Stone
THE issue of Covid-19 treatment drugs has lately hogged the limelight after some medical practitioners raised the red flag over treatment claims by their colleague, Jackie Stone, describing her assert...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:06hrs | 1104 | by Staff reporter
Doctor under fire for prescribing unapproved COVID-19 remedies
MEDICAL doctor Jackie Stone has come under fire from colleagues in the medical fraternity for allegedly prescribing unapproved COVID-19 remedies for her patients.Specialist physician Rashida F...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:02hrs | 2460 | by Staff reporter
'We are ready for COVID-19'
DOCTORS in private practice say they are ready to support government in its fight against COVID-19, but have urged the State to move with speed to utilise all dormant council clinics in order to incre...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:01hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe economy to grow by 2.9%'
ZiMBABWE'S economy is expected to register a modest 2,9% growth this year from a negative dip recorded last year, according to the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects report released this week....Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:45hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Covid-19 patients resort to home remedies
Clara Tandi felt feverish. Worried she was sick with the coronavirus, she grabbed handfuls of lemon, guava and mint leaves from her garden and boiled them into a liquid.Then Tandi (59) strippe...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:14hrs | 930 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga targets sex workers
ZIMBABWE new HIV annual infections have fallen from 47 000 recorded in 2016 to current statistics of 40 000 while AIDS related deaths have declined to 20 000 in 2019 from 54 000 in 2010.This, ...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:24hrs | 4212 | by Staff reporter
$421.6bn inclusive 2021 budget unveiled
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube yesterday announced a $421.6 billion National Budget for 2021 in which he handed down tax relief measures to cushion workers and corpo...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Africa lacks strategy to combat Covid-19
The International Coalition Against Coronavirus for Africa (ICAC) has lamented lack of Africa based initiatives to fight Covid-19 saying the continent only depends on the World Health Organisation (WH...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 09:49hrs | 256 | by Stephen Jakes
5 Common eating disorders in women everyone should know about
Eating disorders are a group of psychological conditions that are associated with an unhealthy relationship with food. Most of these eating disorders are associated with poor self-esteem and distorted...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 11:45hrs | 1506 | by Staff Writer
Government-led lockdown not enough for Zimbabwe’s fight against Coronavirus
It took a while for the Zimbabwean government to meaningfully respond to the Covid19 pandemic, better late than never.Now that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decreed that there shall be a 21...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 10:36hrs | 974 | by Edzai Zvobwo
Oxygen suppliers to prioritise patients
Boc Gases Zimbabwe has said it will prioritise medical oxygen supply for the treatment of Covid-19 patients and patients on existing, medically-prescribed oxygen therapies, in line with medical prescr...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:33hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
African Religion and Governance in a changing world. Where thou goest native Africa!
It is my humble intention to speak to this paper in response to my learned brother Kenyan Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba's presentation to The All-Africa Religious Liberty 3rd Congress in...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 15:00hrs | 949 | by Reginald Nyathi
Mpilo gets a shot in the arm
KIDZCAN Zimbabwe, in conjunction with the United Refineries Company, has officially handed over a cancer ward at Mpilo Hospital in a bid to lessen the burden of children suffering from cancer....Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sangoma 'cures' cancer
A renowned traditional medical practitioner has called for more education on the healing and management of cancer through traditional means.Traditional medical practitioner Newton Mudzingwa - ...Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 13:51hrs | 1643 | by Staff reporter
The first lady Grace Mugabe to admit she has a behaviour problem
Rage does not and should not necessitate physical violence. Violence is not power. Violence is symptomatic to an emotional deficit and a larger personality disorder linked to a sense of loss of contro...Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 13:58hrs | 3724 | by Themba Mthethwa
Landmark research on HIV & AIDS, cancer cure
In what could best be described as a domestic medical revolution in Zimbabwe, a group of medical practitioners have pooled their minds together in search of an alternative way to combat two of the...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:08hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Gains made in fight against malaria
Africa is finally making headway in its decades-long fight against malaria The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in December 2015 that the glob...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 22:12hrs | 256 | by Amelia Tan
New cancer hospital invites Morgan Tsvangirai
A CANCER treatment centre, which opened its doors to the public in Harare this week, has invited Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader Morgan Tsvangirai to come and receive chemotherapy tr...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:47hrs | 2819 | by Staff reporter
Blood Ebola survivors tested as short-term treatment option
ANTWERP, Belgium - An international research consortium led by the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (ITM) will assess whether treatment with antibodies in the blood of Ebola survivors could h...Published: 23 Oct 2014 at 15:39hrs | 2183 | by APO
Meaning of Ebola - Eradicate Billions Of Lazy Africans - Video
A video alleging conspiracy on Ebola transmission has surfaced on youtube. We do hereby give you facts from UN regarding the Ebola virus. But before you go through the facts, watch the video b...Published: 20 Oct 2014 at 14:31hrs | 2904 | by ebola
Ebola meeting set for Zimbabwe
Sadc Health Ministers are meeting here to deliberate on how best to respond to the deadly Ebola outbreak following confirmed cases of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Chairperson...Published: 05 Sep 2014 at 13:04hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Scientists 'delete' HIV from human cells
Once HIV conquers a human cell, it stays there forever but scientists have for the first time ever "deleted" HIV from human cells, marking a major breakthrough in fight against AIDS.The virus ...Published: 24 Jul 2014 at 09:54hrs | 8053 | by Staff reporter
WMA condemns portrayal of homosexuality as a disease
The persistent portrayal of homosexuality as a disease has been condemned by the World Medical Association (WMA) along with attempts to treat it using so-called √¢‚Ǩ≈ìconversion" or √...Published: 21 Oct 2013 at 07:20hrs | 1587 | by WMA
Scientists Identify Gene Critical for Cell Responses to Oxygen Deprivation
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have identified a protein that kick-starts the response to low levels of oxygen, suggesting new lines of research relevant to a variety of potentially fatal diso...Published: 04 Nov 2011 at 07:22hrs | | by ScienceDaily
With science, aging is dead
Imagine what the world would be if Robert Mugabe, Josh uMdalawethu Nkomo, Adolf Hitler, Iddi Amin, Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein and Mahatma Gandhi hanged around for more than two centuri...Published: 06 Mar 2011 at 22:26hrs | 888 | by Byo24News
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