http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The green beans are fresh, the broccoli crunchy and the baby corn sweet, but having failed "cosmetic" tests of international supermarkets, the Kenyan-grown food was hurled out as waste. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-dustbin-dinner-ministers-binned-food.html Health Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:10:02 EST news280497588 (AP)—The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges what he's accused of: detaining mothers who can't pay their bills. Lazarus Omondi says it's the only way he can keep his medical center running. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-kenya-hospital-imprisons-mothers-money.html Health Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:41:22 EST news275838076 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Dejan Zurovac and colleagues from the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Program, Nairobi, Kenya discuss six areas where text messaging could improve the delivery of health services and health outcomes in malaria in Africa, including three areas transmitting information from the periphery of the health system to malaria control managers and three areas transmitting information to support management of malaria patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-text-messaging-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:00:01 EST news249054447 (AP) -- Scientists are warning officials negotiating a global treaty on mercury that banning the deadly chemical completely would be dangerous for public health because of the chemical's use in vaccines. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-treaty-mercury-scientists.html Health Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:03:22 EST news238395784 New research funded by the Wellcome Trust has shown that sending text message reminders to healthcare workers in rural Africa can improve the implementation of national guidelines for treating malaria. The intervention led to more patients receiving accurate antimalarial treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-text-message-healthcare-rural-africa.html Health Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:30:02 EST news231647013