Congo's Capital Gains New Hospital, Thanks to U.S. Basketball Star
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KINSHASA, Congo, Sept. 3 -- Two hospitals, named for two mothers. One is mired in the past; the other represents beaten-down Congo's hopes for a better future.
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Dikembe Mutombo claims he has agreed a deal that will see him switch to the Houston Rockets. Eric Piatkowski, Mike Wilks and Adrian Griffin will go in the other direction to the Chicago Bulls as part of the move.
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By Jose Pagliery, The Miami Herald Feb. 8--After 10 years wading through bureaucracy in the healthcare industry, Mario Yanez had had enough. He longed to separate himself from what he considered the dull business world and connect to a life outside of the city's concrete buildings.
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As ministers in Congo's first democratic government in four decades settled into their new offices on Thursday, there was one notable absentee.
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Two hospitals, named for two mothers. One is mired in the past; the other represents beaten-down Congo's hopes for a better future.
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Shaquille O'Neal, the superstar center who led the Miami Heat to the National Basketball Association title in June, unveiled his newest project here - a US real estate firm with nationwide plans.
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The federal government will transfer a &#36;30 million parcel of land to the Department of Veterans Affairs for a new hospital in southern Nevada to help care for the fastest-growing population of veterans in the nation.
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Dikembe Mutombo, 38, has agreed to a sign-and-trade deal that will send him from the Chicago Bulls to Houston in exchange for Eric Piatkowski, Adrian Griffin and Mike Wilks, the Houston Chronicle reports.
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Every day hundreds of Kenyans from every walk of life visit the Hope Center at the Coptic Hospital in Kenya's capital to meet with doctors and receive life-prolonging HIV drugs, compliments of the United States.
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Dallas Mavericks reserve center D.J. Mbenga underwent successful surgery Tuesday to repair torn right knee ligaments but will miss the remainder of the National Basketball Association season.
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KINSHASA, Congo -- On this day, the first sunny day in a while, Omer Waka decided to stake it all on bamboo wall calendars, a calculated gamble in a city of hustles.
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A portion of sales goes to the Global Fund, which finances health programs in Africa.
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KINSHASA, Congo, Dec. 6 -- After decades of dictatorship and wars, Congo on Wednesday swore in its first freely elected president since 1960, installing Joseph Kabila, the son of a rebel leader, who promised a new era of order and better days ahead.
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Children&#39;s Hospital, which is bursting out of its Longwood Avenue campus, has purchased Sterling Medical Center in Waltham -- the former Waltham Hospital
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RUSAMAMBO, Congo  - Fia Kambale looked out across  a deep green valley, pointing to one of the many hills that  make up the lush, undulating landscape of eastern Congo, where  untold riches and dangers lie.
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Triad Hospitals, under pressure from its biggest stockholder to raise its share price, agreed yesterday to be acquired by CCMP Capital Advisors and a Goldman Sachs unit for $4.7 billion.
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The Whitman-Walker Clinic, the region's biggest provider of HIV-AIDS services, announced yesterday that it will expand medical care as it moves toward becoming a comprehensive health center.