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Out of the 91 million people who make up the total population of Egypt, only 83 million currently live in Egypt, according to the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. Among them, tens of thousands of medical students graduate every year from Egyptian universities to join the ranks of […]

“My mom called me in the middle of the day and said that I should come home immediately because some strangers had brought my father back after he collapsed in the street,” a very close friend told me. “So I took a taxi. When I arrived home, my older sister […]

With scary news about the “financial crisis shaking the world!” making the headlines every second day, you can easily end up blaming the godawful traders for every single bit of wrong-doing. Or Greece. As time goes by, I more and more have the impression that everyone around is turning into […]

I was catching up on articles early this morning when I saw a tribute Dr Ojia Adamolekun wrote for her elder brother who died in 2004 after a car accident. A mechanic test driving a car ran into the one he was in, and they couldn’t get an ambulance to […]

Prevention is better than cure is an old saying but one that still holds true and on a much larger scale than one might at first think.  The economic burden that the health sector puts on the already mismanaged economies of third world countries could be substantially reduced by practising preventive medicine and educating […]