The African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE) has conducted its first open heart surgery and West Africa's first stereotactic ...

The African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE) achieves two landmark successes as it completes its first Open-Heart Surgery ...

AMCE completes landmark heart surgery and pioneering lung cancer radiation therapy, expanding Africa’s access to advanced ...

Despite surgery patients in Africa being younger, with a lower risk, having more minor surgery, and having fewer complications, their risk of death is double the global average, according to the most ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Dotti Ramos came to this southern African nation looking for a face lift and some face time--with a lion. By taking a trend-setting “scalpel safari,” she’s getting both.

Fernando da Silva, who lives in the southern African nation of Angola, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March. Three months later, he underwent a procedure to cut out the cancer from a surgeon ...

South Africa’s first fully internal bone transport and limb-lengthening reconstruction surgery was completed at a Western Cape hospital.

The risk of dying from scheduled surgery in Africa is more than double the global average, researchers said on Wednesday. Patients who go under the knife in Africa in theory have a lower profile for ...

Salome Maswime receives funding from the South African Medical Research Council, UNICEF and the National Institites of Health. Amy Paterson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

Hundreds of thousands of Africans aren't able to get the surgery they need. And those who do undergo surgery, despite being younger and having fewer underlying health risks than patients in ...