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A nurse in Uganda uses a stethoscope to listen for heart problems at a screening and educational event Oct. 31, 2017. Tao Farren-Hefer

Women with heart disease in sub-Saharan Africa face challenges, but stigma may be worst of all

Allison Webel, Case Western Reserve University and Andrew Chang, Stanford University

Noncommunicable diseases are a growing problem in Africa. Among women, heart disease is a particular concern. Medication to treat it can interfere with pregnancy, making women undesirable partners.
If they are simply too large, your tonsils can be shrunk down using special instruments which remove the valleys and crypts. Shutterstock

Curious Kids: Why do we have tonsils?????

Simon Carney, Flinders University

Tonsil tissue is particularly important in the first six months of life. After this, our lymph glands take over most of the work and the tonsils are essentially out of a job.
Not only will a nasal vaccine avoid the ‘ouch’ factor, it gets the vaccine straight to the most common site of infection. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Vaccine for strep throat and rheumatic fever to be trialled in humans

Chris Davis, Griffith University; Mehfuz Zaman, Griffith University; Michael Batzloff, Griffith University, and Michael Good, Griffith University

Infection with streptococcus bacteria leads to a wide array of diseases ranging from strep throat to rheumatic heart disease.

Related Topics

  1. Global perspectives
  2. Group A Streptococcus bacteria
  3. heart disease in Africa
  4. rheumatic heart disease
  5. streptococcus A
  6. tonsilitis
  7. tonsils
  8. Vaccines

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