Adrian Hill Director of the Jenner Institute University of Oxford, writes in celebration of a landmark achievement in Africa’s and the world’s fight against the killer disease malaria. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Adrian Hill’s writing on the new malaria vaccine is illuminating as it is the story of another triumph for global health, …
Brain technologies are all the rage these days. Entrepreneurs are selling wearable devices in the open marketplace with claims of benefits to memory, attention and concentration. Neurosurgeons and psychiatrists are exploring new ways and further developing old invasive ones to intervene in the brains of people with major mental illnesses whose conditions are resistant to conventional drug therapy.
On the 21st of October 2019, news filtered of another promising addition to the ever expanding library of Crispr gene editing tools. Prestigious science journal Nature published a paper titled: Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA. In the paper we are introduced to a new system of gene editing called “prime editor” …
As the Ebola outbreak in the DRC rages on, a leading expert urges the deployment of unconventional approaches. BY: Mosoka Fallah, Harvard Medical School The Ebola virus is again terrorising an African nation. The current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to spread after it first appeared 10 months ago. By mid-May, …
Radical ideas are needed to break the DRC’s Ebola outbreak. Here are some Read More »
The news report was framed as political analysis. Hidden within the enchanting intrigue of real life compelling political gossip, was a number. Though nested within the newscaster’s rumblings, it stood out – two hundred billion Kenyan shillings. This figure has been regurgitated over and again in recent times. From a time in the preceding months …
Having echoed the reflexive, participatory spirit of The Final Rule ,today we seek to detail the emerging realities of life in the 21st century. We detail phenomenon brought on by the fourth industrial revolution that make human subject research this century dramatically different. Remarkably so to warrant authoring of the final rule. In order to …
Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Force Behind 21st Century Health Research Read More »
Ethical dilemmas that arise during the conduct of research involving humans subjects- social, behavioral, collaborative or transdisciplinary health research- are the bread and butter of health research ethics. Health research ethics, in my books, is the delicate balance of the altruistic demands of science on those individuals and communities who elect to assume risk; and …
The manipulation of DNA in humans using technology, human genome editing, has been – to use a pop phrase- one of science’s moments that can’t be unseen. The advent of novel gene editing technology CRISPR has only served to amplify the confusion, hope and trepidation of a future with designer babies. This article by A …
Those Designer Babies Everyone is Freaking Out About – it’s not Likely to Happen Read More »
Hospital design in the 21st century is about greater efficiency as a route to quality in care. Moreover, health care financing — in light of the demands for achieving universal healthcare — continues to exert undue influence on the design of health service delivery spaces. Further, the environment begot by the confluence of efficiency, quality …
Two years ago, possibly almost to date, it was crunch time at the offices of Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union, KMPDU, spread across the republic. Secretary General Dr. Ouma Oluga and Co., the infamous CBA7, faced the unenviable twin task of marshaling their troops whilst minding their own state for the hell ride ahead. …
18 Hours Film Beyond AAMVA Awards, A Damning Indictment Of Health Activism in Kenya Read More »