South African taxi drivers on Friday blocked roads to Johannesburg’s airport, holding up thousands of travellers in the latest protest against ride-hailing app Uber. Uber Technologies Inc’s service has triggered protests by taxi drivers from London to Hungary and New Delhi as it upends traditional business models that require professional drivers to pay steep licensing fees to drive cabs.
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Novan Announces Presentation of Anti-Viral Data at International Papillomavirus Conference
Novan, Inc. today announced that preclinical data demonstrating the anti-viral effects of the Company’s nitric oxide-releasing drug candidates will be presented at the 31st International Papillomavirus Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Thomas Broker, Ph.D., and Louise Chow, Ph.D., both of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, or UAB, are scheduled to present “Antiviral Efficacy of Nitric Oxide-Releasing Drug Candidates in Suppressing Productive Infection by HPV-18 in the Organotypic Epithelial Raft Culture Model System” on Thursday, Mar. 2. Drs.
Second chance at life
Durban – The heartbreaking story of a baby without a brain becoming an organ donor has touched a Durban family, who have endured 19 long years of hoping and waiting for that call about new life. Matthew Legemaate, 19, from Hillcrest, north-west of Durban, spoke out after the Facebook posts this week of US couple, Royce and Keri Young, who made the courageous decision to donate their unborn child’s organs once she was born.
No evidence of risk compensation after circumcision in three African cohorts
… risk of infection. Katrina Ortblad and colleagues examined longitudinal demographic surveillance data from the Africa Health Research Institute’s cohort in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Almost 15,000 men contributed data from 2003 to 2014, including …
‘Exceedingly ordinary’ Langley Rotarian becomes new international VP
Rohrs is currently serving as one of 17 Directors on the Rotary International Board, representing Canada, Bermuda, Alaska and 10 other states in the US northeast. With her husband Rhino , Rohrs is an owner and administrator at Rhide Technologies Inc., which supplies soil stabilization products for road construction.