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CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Sept. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vantage Health (OTC:BB - ticker symbol VNTH), (the "Company") announces that the Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority has today issued the Company's Tanzanian subsidiary, Vantage Health Tanzania Limited ("VHTL") with all necessary licensing, permitting and registration certificates, all of which became effective in August 2011, and which will further allow VHTL to expand its business in the healthcare field in Tanzania, including both...
How diseases are transmitted among humans, other animals, the environment is focus New research aimed at controlling the transmission of diseases among humans, other animals and the environment is being made possible by grants from a collaboration among U.S. and U.K. funding agencies. By improving our understanding of the factors affecting disease transmission, the projects will help produce models to predict and control outbreaks. Funding is from the U.S. National Science Foundation...
Researchers at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, have examined a number of plants which are used for illegal abortions in Tanzania. The lab tests show that several of the plants can make the uterus tissue contract and that the plants therefore can be used to stop lethal bleedings after birth. This new knowledge is now to be conveyed in rural Tanzania where access to medicine often is difficult. Every year around 350,000 women die globally due to post partum...
LONDON, August 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Emerging Market Broadband Provider Augere Expands African Operation With Launch of Rwandan Broadband Network and Acquisition of Tanzanian Spectrum License Augere, the experts in delivering fast, reliable broadband to emerging markets, is delighted to announce the expansion of its operations in East Africa. On 25/11/2011 Augere, operating under the brand name QUBEE, will be commercially launching its purpose built WiMAX...
Israeli Medical Team Perform First Ever Pediatric Open Heart Surgery in Mwanza Tanzania (PRWEB) August 09, 2011 A medical team from Israel's Save a Child's Heart has successfully performed the first ever pediatric open heart surgery in Mwanza Tanzania and on the youngest child in Tanzania. Laurencia Simon is four years old, the daughter of two farmers, and lives in a mud hut without electricity or running water. Two years ago she was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. Due to a...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vantage Health (OTC BB: VNTH), ("Vantage"), ("company") announced today that it has successfully conducted discussions with senior government officials from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Tanzania Food and Drug Authority, and Medical Stores Department, all representing the United Republic of Tanzania ("URT") which talks have resulted in a decision to draft a formal Public Private Partnership ("PPP") Agreement between...
HOUSTON, July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ION Geophysical Corporation (NYSE: IO) today announced that it has successfully acquired 8,700 km of regional seismic data offshore Tanzania, Mozambique, and Comoros, adding to the 14,000 km of data the company previously acquired in the region in the first two phases of its East AfricaSPAN(TM) program. Several recent large discoveries offshore Mozambique and southern Tanzania have created tremendous interest in the East Africa margin for oil...
TSX-V Trading Symbol: HRC Tel.: +1 604 638 8007 E-mail: Website: info@helioresource.com www.helioresource.com  VANCOUVER, July 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Helio Resource Corp (TSX-V: HRC) is pleased to announce the drill results from the second batch of drill holes (15 holes, including extensions of previous holes, for a total of 1,604m of diamond...
A promising new approach: Reaching girls before they become sexually activeThe onset of puberty is a critical moment for reaching girls with health messages and information, and the stakes are particularly high in countries where the HIV/AIDS epidemic rages and where threats to female reproductive health abound. Yet to date, the healthcare community in low-resource countries has tended to neglect this opportunity and instead concentrate efforts on young women who are older and of reproductive...
NEW YORK, June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, announces today 20 new members of 2011's TEDGlobal Fellows class. Founded in 2009, the TED Fellows program handpicks world-changing innovators from around the globe, and brings them to the TED stage -- literally and figuratively -- to raise international awareness of their remarkable work. "I couldn't be more excited about our latest class of exceptionally talented women and men, mavericks from all...
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The southern reedbuck (Redunca arundinum), also known as the common reedbuck or the rietbok, is a species of antelope that can be found in southern Africa. Its range extends from Tanzania and Gabon to South Africa, including Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Namibia, and Zambia, among other areas. It prefers a habitat within grasslands, woodlands, pastures, and valleys. This species uses reeds and other tall vegetation located near water to remain hidden from predators....
The southern tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus), also known as the southern tree dassie, eastern tree hyrax, or eastern tree dassie, can be found in many areas including Angola, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, and Tanzania. It prefers a habitat within topical or subtropical arid and moist lowland forests, as well as temperate forests and moist savannah or rocky areas. The southern tree hyrax differs from the rock hyrax in that is nocturnal and resides in trees,...
The grey-faced Sengi (Rhynchocyon udzungwensis) is an elephant shrew that is native to south-central Tanzania, specifically the Udzungwa Mountains. It was found in 2005, in a small area of the Udzungwa Mountains, the Ndundulu Forest. This discovery was considered monumental, as there had been no discoveries of any new elephant shrew species for over a century. The grey-faced sengi occurs in two known populations, within a very small area of its habitat reaching 120 square miles. It resides...
Grant’s gazelle (Nanger granti) is native to Africa. Its northern range of Tanzania extends south to Ethiopia and the Sudan, and from the coast of Kenya to Lake Victoria. It prefers habitats within shrub lands and grass plains, but can also be found in regions that are more arid. In Swahili, Grant’s gazelle is called Swala Granti. It was placed within the Nanger subgenus of the genus Gazella, before Nanger became a separate genus. Grant’s gazelle holds five recognized subspecies. The...
Elaphrosaurus or "lightweight lizard" is a genus of carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period. It lived in what is now the Kimmeridgian state of Tanzania. Its skeleton was found in the Tendaguru Beds of Tanzania. A related animal was found in the Morrison Formation of the western United States. Most fossils of theropods found have only been fragments, until the discovery of a single nearly complete skeleton of Elaphrosaurus. It did not contain the skull. Elaphrosaurus was about...
