Fingernails – a window into your blood healthGianni Diliberto/Getty By Sam Wong A smartphone app can diagnose anaemia by analysing the colour of a person’s fingernails in a photograph. Anaemia – a condition in which people have low levels of haemoglobin or not enough healthy red blood cells – affects over two billion people worldwide.… Read More »
Australians may soon be automatically registered as organ donors as part of a proposed change to combat the rise of people buying organs on the black market. The Government is reportedly considering taking an “opt-out” approach to organ donation which would see citizens have to specifically state that they don’t want to be a donor.… Read More »
In the fall of 2013, the new school welcomed its inaugural class into the five-year dental surgery degree program. The students spent their first two years of training with their medical school classmates at the University of Rwanda’s School of Medicine in Huye before beginning dental training in the capital city of Kigali. They were… Read More »