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Zimbabwean Professor breaks new ground in music
Zimbabwean medical doctor and haematology expert Professor Zivanai Cuthbert Chapanduka is making waves in South Africa's music scene, gaining recognition under his musical moniker, Prof Daddy or Groov...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 08:06hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
US-based firm appoints Zimbabwean Dr as Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Victor Moyo has been appointed as the Chief Medical Officer at Onconova Therapeutics, Inc, a US-based clinical-stage Biopharmaceutical Company. Dr. Moyo brings with him extensive experience as a p...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 08:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean drugs developer lands top position at US-based Acelyrin Inc.
Dr. Shepherd Mpofu, an accomplished drug developer originally from Zimbabwe, has assumed the role of Senior Vice President at the esteemed Acelyrin Inc., a prominent biopharmaceutical company based in...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 20:24hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic Bank facilitates breaktrhough MOU between two top Zim and China Universities
Harare, 24 August 2023 - Stanbic Bank has facilitated a trail-blazing, mutually beneficial and cooperative relationship between two top Zimbabwean and Chinese universities as the leading financial ser...Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 19:23hrs | 27 | by Agencies
Nust medicine enrolment increases
Destiny Mlilo started his life-long ambition of being a medical doctor on Tuesday as part of 60 first-year School of Medicine students at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bu...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NUST cleared to start medical school
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Faculty of Medicine has been granted Medical School status after meeting international standards, a development that will see it increasing enr...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe speeds up medical training
ZIMBABWE is expediting the training of specialist health personnel to produce a critical mass attuned to the needs of the people while at the same time sustaining the country's development momentum th...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanla fighter's daughter now top medical officer in US
While a good number of gallant veterans of Zimbabwe's war of liberation brawled this week in Harare with the police, who charged them with seeking to incite public violence, a city in a distant land t...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:14hrs | 17 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Zimbabwean Hlatshwayo Davis named health director of U.S. city of St Louis
Zimbabwean Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis has been named director of health for St. Louis, the second biggest city in the state of Missouri in the United States of America.The infectious disea...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 19:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
J&J vaccine concerns over Delta variant
A study from a team of New York University researchers found the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine is far less effective at preventing coronavirus infections from the Delta variant and other muta...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
In Zim, we need another dictionary to define the term 'Development'
Zambian President, Edgar Lungu has Commissioned more than five hospitals in less than six months, apparently, he has decongested Lusaka city, by Commissioning four fly overs, in less than a year. Forg...Published: 07 May 2021 at 10:07hrs | 30 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
If I were President Mnangagwa, unfortunately I'm not !!!
Apparently, I woke up at 3 am, I'm just thinking of the November 27, 2017 event, and I can safely conclude the phrase " New dispensation, has just been eroded, by a flood of events ".Can you b...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 20:29hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa's govt moves to block doctors' migration
SENIOR doctors have slammed the Health ministry for trampling on the Health Professions Act by throwing thorns into their path to stop them from looking for green er pastures.This follows an a...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:43hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga cracks whip
GOVERNMENT has set tough measures for doctors intending to leave the country and also ordered the closure of three programmes at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)'s medical school in a move viewed as pu...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo hit by doctors shortage
MPILO Central Hospital needs an additional 44 junior doctors and 20 specialists in order to adequately service its catchment area. The shortage of doctors is straining the few doctors who are ...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
A male birth control pill has just passed human safety tests
A new male birth control pill passed tests of safety and tolerability when healthy men used it daily for a month, and it produced hormone responses consistent with effective contraception, according t...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reads riot act
President Mnangagwa yesterday challenged universities to stop taking pride in high enrolment figures and glamorous infrastructure and focus on providing answers to the country's aspirations. He said t...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Ndebeles are dull thats why there are no medical schools in Matabeleland
Are Matabeles really dull as we are told every day by Shona supremacist? That is wogwash. Anyone who believes this would believe that Emmerson Mnangagwa is a saint.In our last two articles we ...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 13:48hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Wounded soldier gets world's first penis transplant
A soldier wounded by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan has received the world's first complete penis and scrotum transplant, officials at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore said on Monday...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 18:28hrs | 1 | by Reuters
'Zimbabwe prisons used as slaughter houses for Ndebele people'
MLO President, Cde Paul Siwela saw brutality and agony caused by fractured bones, broken limbs and untreated festering gun shot wounds when he was detained at Khami Maximum Security Prison from 2011 t...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 13:53hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
Mugabe caps 3 445 Great Zimbabwe University graduates
President Mugabe yesterday capped 3 445 Great Zimbabwe University graduates at the institution's colourful graduation ceremony held at the university's permanent site near Great Zimbabwe. The ...Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T has to hope for the best and prepare for the worst
Painful as it might be, some things have to be said and sorted. Whether you like it or not, they cannot be postponed or shelved any further.It has been courageous - not outrageous - for Eddie ...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 09:34hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Jonathan Moyo accused of neglecting tertiary students
Student leaders from the Mnangagwa alligned Zimbabwe Congress of Students' Union (Zicosu) yesterday castigated Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jona...Published: 15 Jul 2017 at 11:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diagnosing Africa's medical brain drain
Higher wages and modern facilities are magnets for Africa's health workers Dressed in full medical gear and clutching a folder, Folu Songonuga, a physi...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 21:59hrs | 2 | by Kingsley Ighobor
New UNICEF Representative in Zimbabwe
The new UNICEF Representative to Zimbabwe Dr. Mohamed Ayoya has presented his credentials to the Government of Zimbabwe.Dr. Ayoya takes over from Mr. Reza Hossaini who left in February to head...Published: 03 Nov 2016 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Golfers condemn state of Masvingo Golf Club
Some 59 golfers who attended the Ok Zimbabwe Southern Tours Invitation Golf Tournament have condemned the state of Masvingo Golf Club whose ceiling is falling in and the roof leaking.Masvingo ...Published: 31 May 2016 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Swallow a balloon to lose weight, say experts
San Diego, CA - People with obesity who are struggling to control their weight might soon have a new treatment option - swallowing gas-filled balloons that help them eat less, according to research pr...Published: 25 May 2016 at 08:32hrs | 13 | by Digestive Disease Week® (DDW)
Zimbabwe in critical shortage of pathologists
Pathology is a branch of medical science which primarily focuses on the examination of organs, tissues and bodily fluids in order to make a diagnosis of disease. The country currently oper...Published: 06 Nov 2014 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 6 | by Staff reporter
16 signs you might be HIV+
Fever One of the first signs of ARS can be a mild fever, up to about 102 degrees F.The fever, if it occurs at all, is often accompanied by other...Published: 04 Oct 2013 at 05:05hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean Professor appointed to US's Stanford university
University of Zimbabwe Medical School Professor Godfrey Muguti has been appointed Affiliate Clinical Professor at Stanford University in the United States. This means that the UZ's department ...Published: 09 May 2013 at 03:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel - 'The philanthropist'
HE has been called all sorts of names - Man of God, a fake prophet, a trickster and fraudster - because of his antics and miraculous powers on the pulpit.His critics say he is arrogant and ext...Published: 16 Mar 2013 at 16:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
From protests to prophets - Is this what dictators fear!
It could be argued that the recent sudden death of Malawi's Bingu WaMutharika has left many people puzzled as they thought someone other than him was meant by TB Joshua's prophecy. They have b...Published: 09 Apr 2012 at 16:30hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri | Political Analyst, London,
UZ School of Medicine records its highest fail rate in over a decade
The shortage of medical doctors in the country's public health institutions is set to persist after an unusually high number of students undergoing training at the country's sole school of medicine f...Published: 03 Mar 2012 at 22:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Stopping influenza evolution before it starts: Study
If you get vaccinated against the flu and then become infected with the virus, your body mounts an immune response that prevents you from getting sick. However, that pressure from the immune system ca...Published: 20 Dec 2011 at 11:46hrs | 9 | by Anne Trafton
Scientists seek alcoholism vaccine
Chilean researchers said they are developing a vaccine against alcoholism that could be tested on humans starting next year and works by neutralising an enzyme that metabolises alcohol....Published: 11 Jan 2011 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by AFP
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