Health

Ministry of Health (MoH) Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha has said the ministry has begun posting the first batch of over 800...

The United Nations called Thursday for urgent funding to help thirty million children suffering from acute malnutrition "before it is...

The true global death toll of Covid-19 remains difficult to nail down three years after the first case was detected,...

Latest development suggests that scientists have developed a blood test to “diagnose Alzheimer’s disease without the need for expensive brain...

Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Wafula has urged Kenyans to observe personal hygiene practices during the festive season. CS Wafula spoke...

Ogweno Stephen is a Kenyan health innovator who is primarily know for his role as the founder ad CEO of...

Partnerships and collaborations that bring innovation in healthcare hold the key to managing the high cost of healthcare in Kenya....

The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has issued a 30-day strike notice to the government. The doctor’s union...

Uganda on Saturday lifted a two-month lockdown on two districts at the epicenter of the country's Ebola epidemic, amid cautious...

A Malian mother who gave birth to nine babies in Morocco last year returned home on Tuesday with her infants,...

  One day, we went to bed, as usual, and woke up to a new world. Life, as we knew...

It is difficult to imagine the magnitude of loss humanity could have faced assuming the outbreak of Sars-Cov-2, the virus...

Recent research has established that Apixaban, the blood-thinning drug that is being used as potential life-saver to most Covid patients,...

Doctors in the country have decried what they are terming as exclusion from the President William Ruto led government. The...

Nearly half of Sudan’s 18 states have registered cases of dengue fever with more than 1,400 people being diagnosed with...

Medical and energy experts under the CLEAN-Air (Africa) platform have called for scaling up of clean cooking energy that can...

According to a recent study, smoking weed is as dangerous as smoking tobacco. Dr. Giselle Revah, an assistant professor in...

Residents of Kitengela town have raised an alarm over dangerous cheap samosas allegedly being made from the meat of dead...

Learning disabilities, also known as learning disorders, is an umbrella term for a variety of learning problems such as Dyslexia...

A new study by researchers at King’s College London has established that indoor air pollution from wood or charcoal “could...

Sitting next to a patient with depression on a garden bench in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, 70-year-old Shery Ziwakayi speaks gently,...

As Ugandan farmer Bonaventura Senyonga prepares to bury his grandson, age-old traditions are forgotten, and fear hangs in the air...

The Ahero sub-county hospital in Kisumu County has halted the admission of male patients. According to the facility's management, the decision...

Deputy president Rigathi Gachagua has announced that Kenya will soon establish a Moderna Vaccines Manufacturing Hub in Nairobi with the help...

A statement released by World Health Organisation assistant director general of antimicrobial resistance, Dr Hanan Balkhy suggest: “Emerging from the...

Medical researchers, for the first time, have established that two common respiratory viruses can fuse to form a hybrid virus...

  Some 15 people have been confirmed to have contacted the deadly Ebola virus in Kamala according to health officials...

Global leaders have committed over Sh315 billion (USD2.6 billion) to support worldwide initiatives on eradicating polio.  Moreover, this money, through...

Pharmaceutical giant Novartis has signed a licensing agreement increasing access to a vital leukemia treatment, an UN-backed public health organization...

African leaders converged in Tanzania at a high-level meeting to champion the role of young women in the global HIV...