Towards universal health coverage: lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.

With social distancing being a key preventative measure of COVID-19, proper provision of healthcare services becomes a challenge as healthcare professionals are concerned about the risk of potential infection. Telemedicine, a practice that uses telecommunication networks for the delivery of healthcare services and medical education, has been adopted by several countries and has shown to provide positive outcomes. This concept is poorly practiced in African Countries compared to other countries of the world.

Neurotrophic, anti-neuroinflammatory, and redox balance mechanisms of chalcones.

The passage of time that evoke aging; the tilted redox balance that contribute oxidative entropy; the polarization of microglia cells that produce inflammatory phenotype; all represent the intricacies of CNS-dependent disease progression. Neurological diseases that result from CNS injury raise social concerns and the available therapeutic strategies are frustrated by low efficacy, high toxicity, and multiple side effects. However, emergent studies have shown the neuroprotective role of natural compounds - including chalcones - with high efficacy in the protection of CNS structures.