(JollofNews) – The Gambian’s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has announced plans to mobilise health workers, voluntary groups and students to conduct a massive sensitisation on cancer to mark World Cancer Day, on 4th February.

(JollofNews)- The Medical Research Council of the Gambia (MRC) was last month awarded a grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, under their grand challenge scheme for New Interventions for Global Health Pilot Awards.

(JollofNews)- The national DNA bank in the Gambia, which was established in November 2000 by the Medical Research Council Unit, the Gambia, is set to expand its current repository of approximately 50,000 DNA samples and associated data.