For five years, 29-year-old Denise lived with an obstetric fistula, a childbirth-related complication that profoundly affected her ...

​The current conversation about the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is dominated by crisis: Ebola is spreading, conflict ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Operation Fistula, a non-profit organization (NGO) working to end obstetric fistula for every woman, everywhere, and long-term Exasol partner, is set to launch a new project ...

This week saw the launch of Visualize Gender Equality, a new global data advocacy project that aims to highlight some of the extreme inequities faced by women and girls worldwide. The initiative is ...

The endoscopic device manufactured by Maquet was originally developed for harvesting of the saphenous vein and radial artery as conduits for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. These vessels are ...

BATOURI, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After giving birth at the age of 13, whenever Amina Mba wanted to attend prayers in her local mosque, sheer terror ...

Thousands undergo dialysis every day, but many lose their most precious lifeline simply because they don’t know how to care ...

Each afternoon—after neighbors in her village compound in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, in Nigeria’s coastal region, had gone out for the day—Imaobong Dickson would sneak out of her home to wash pieces of ...

Repeated dialysis needling can cause painful aneurysmal fistulas that must be removed. A new, minimally invasive approach will decrease morbidity amonghemodialysis patients and help improve their ...