Africa: Healthcare in the Crossfire
[IRIN] Bangkok - As Mohammed Mohammedi lay trapped in the car with his co-worker, pinned down by heavy gunfire, they promised each other that whoever made it out alive would tell the other's family. Now, 12 years after he was captured and beaten by militias in Somalia while carrying out a polio vaccination campaign, he realizes this was a futile promise. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

David Servan-Schreiber obituary
French-born author of a bestselling guide to the treatment of cancerDavid Servan-Schreiber, who has died of brain cancer aged 50, was anbsp;psychiatrist and best-selling author. As anbsp;rising star of American psychiatry in the early 1990s, he was part of a team at the University of Pittsburgh that was testing brain activity using MRI scans. To support its young researchers, the university hospital allowed them to use its MRI scanners in the late evenings to map the brain activity of guinea pig students, who would lie in the scanners doing difficult mental puzzles. When one test subject failed to show up, David agreed to take his place in the machine. His colleagues brought David the grim news that they had discovered a walnut-sized tumour in his prefrontal cortex.David received conve...