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Think differently!

What are you thinking about? And how do you imagine research? It's not all just laboratories and white coats... You can learn more about what researchers really do if you come along to the Think Corner in the Pavilions Shopping Centre of Birmingham city centre in the next couple of weeks (between now and Sunday 14th September). Today Ammalife [...]

Thank you Shakeel

Many of you will know of the heroic efforts of Shakeel Ahmed to reach mothers in some of the most inaccessible villages in the mountains of Havelian in North West Pakistan. Ammalife is proud to have sponsored and co-funded this important life-saving work. To mark Shakeel's work, all of which is voluntary, Ammalife presented him with [...]

Research in action

Double congratulations! On the same day that Ammalife's first researcher, Dr Amie Wilson, was awarded her PhD, she received praise from the editors of the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review. Her work on Emergency Transport for Mothers in low resource countries was judged by them to be one of the top articles of 2013. Here at Ammalife [...]

Well done Preth!

Congratulations Preth! For safely reaching Lukla having successfully climbed to Everest base camp.  Your journey sounds like a truly incredible experience. We've copied an excerpt from your recent message to us below: "Our main guide was rushed via helicopter to hospital after stress fractures to his spine, one of the travellers had an asthma attack, I felt light headed [...]

Up a mountain, down a mountain, up a mountain, down a . . .

You get the idea - 3 mountains in 24 hours! B'ham's Wilderness Medicine Society is climbing the highest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales in an adrenalin fuelled 24 hours next month. They'll be drawing attention to the perils facing mothers in some of the poorest parts of the world and raising funds to fuel Ammalife's [...]

The stories behind the numbers: please help us to the top of the mountain

We often repeat the statistical headlines of maternal mortality in the developing world, so in case all the numbers seem somewhat abstract, we'd like to tell you a story... Ammalife supporter Preth de Silva is currently undertaking elective medical work in Ghana. On the first day of his time at the hospital, he found a woman lying on [...]

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