Students Win Innovation Prize for Improving Surgery on Newborns
Device may allow surgeons in low-income countries to correct rare, often fatal birth defect.
Published May 05, 2021 under Education News
Written by Michael Penn
Caroline Salzman and Arushi Biswas, undergraduate students in Duke’s biomedical engineering program
A team of Duke students that is working to make life-saving surgery possible for infants with a rare birth defect has won the top prize at the 2021 Bay Area Global Health Innovation Challenge.
The award-winning innovation is part of a larger collaboration between Duke and Makerere University in Uganda to enable surgeons in low-resource settings to operate on newborns with gastroschisis, a birth defect in which babies are born with their intestines outside the body. While the condition can be corrected with surgery, it is often not detected prior to birth in places such as Uganda, where prenatal screenings are infreq
I will support elected MP - minister Muyingo
Friday February 05 2021
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The Bamunanika County Member of Parliament who is also State minister for Higher Education, Mr John Chrysostom Muyingo, has said he will continue supporting various community projects in the area despite being voted out of Parliament.
Mr Muyingo, who has served as MP for Bamunanika County since 2011, lost the seat to National Unity Platform (NUP) party candidate, Mr Robert Ssekitoleko, in the recently concluded elections.
Speaking to Daily Monitor in an interview yesterday, the minister said he respects the voters’ decision and pledged to work with the new MP.
Daily Monitor
Tuesday January 19 2021
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At least 24 ministers, including the Vice President, Mr Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi, lost their parliamentary seats in the January 14 General Election.
Daily Monitor spoke to various voters on why they decided to kick out the ministers
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Vice President Edward Ssekandi (Bukoto Central)
The second highest citizen after the President, Edward Ssekandi was kicked out of Parliament by little known Richard Ssebamala of Democratic Party for Bukoto Central seat. Ssekandi had served as MP for Bukoto Central for over 20 years.
The defeat so overwhelmed the Vice President and former Speaker of Parliament that he was hospitalised.
Daily Monitor
Monday January 18 2021
President Museveni (seated) with NRM party leaders while launching his campaigns at Kawumu in Luwero District on November 9, 2020. PHOTO/FILE.
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The Opposition politicians took advantage and promised that since the NRM government had made it a habit to openly promise ‘air’, it was time to taste the ability of a new government.
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While a section of the public including analysts are quick to attribute the poor performance of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party in Luweero, an area greatly cherished by NRM historical members, to a wave by the youthful population craving for leadership change, the failure by the party leadership to address some concerns partly explains the election result.