Ed Taylor is working on board the MV Aquarius, a search and rescue ship run by SOS Mediterranee in partnership with MSF. Read more about MSF’s work here. […]
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‘Back in 2011, my research team published the results of the largest trial of critically ill children ever undertaken in Africa (FEAST trial), a trial that examined fluid resuscitation strategies in children with severe febrile illnesses (including malaria and bacterial sepsis). Contrary to expectation, the trial showed that fluid boluses were associated with an increased mortality compared to no-bolus (control), the […]
What do Mount Everest and an intensive care ward have in common? Sundeep Dhillon reveals what the medical profession can learn about the human body by studying the effects of extremely high altitudes. […]
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At the start of my internship, a 16-year-old girl was brought into the emergency room; she was in a coma. She had been sick for a long time, and her family abandoned her as they thought she was pregnant. It was her neighbour who brought her to the hospital. The girl was very skinny for […]
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In rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa’s second largest country with vast fertile lands and thousands of lakes, rivers and streams, one in ten people do not have enough food to eat. Food insecurity – the “availability and adequate access at all times to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to maintain […]
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Thinking of travelling to Africa for work or pleasure this summer? Better read up schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia or snail fever, a disease caused by a parasitic worm. According to the World Health Organisation, 61.6 million people were reportedly treated for bilharzia in 2014, most of them in Africa. More cases are being reported in the […]
As a physician who started out in geriatrics, I did not expect to end up researching and developing medicine for mothers and newborns. But as many of you reading this blog will know all too well, medicine is a career that can take you in unusual and unpredictable directions. When, as a junior doctor, I […]
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64 per cent of children under 5 in South Africa go to bed hungry every night. The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 2015 revealed that 12 million South Africans are “food insecure”. My interest with food gardens began when my role with Miss Earth allowed me to travel and I witnessed the dire […]
A few years ago, as I was attending a medical dinner in London with 500 or more senior medical colleagues, I was disturbed that the guest of honour began his speech with the phrase: ‘We all understand that the most important ‘qualities’ of any doctor are compassion and empathy.’ I was even more concerned that there appeared […]
Growing up in Kenya, I was one of the lucky ones. Despite falling prey to malaria about once a year – feeling sick as a dog with a profoundly painful headache and high temperature – I survived this horrible disease to see my fifth birthday. Sadly many, many other children were not so fortunate. It […]
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