Health

Doctors have said they will go on strike starting December 16 because some ministry of Health officials are sabotaging them in their quest to have a better health system. Check also: Goverment To Import 200 Doctors From Cuba Speaking to The Nile Post, Dr Ekwaro Obuku, the president of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) said while the agreement to call off ...

If you grew up popping Flintstones vitamins like most of us did, you might think that of course it’s a good idea to take a multivitamin every day. That’s just what healthy people do, right? Kind of. “You really cannot supplement your way out of an unhealthy diet,” says Robin Foroutan, a registered dietitian nutritionist and spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. ...

In the humble human gut, there are hundreds of trillions of bacterial occupants, and they’re not just living there — they’re working for you. Gut flora makes up 70–80 percent of the human immune system. Adding good bacteria, called probiotics, protects the digestive tract from the harmful bacteria in sugars, pesticides, and saturated fats. Too much bad bacteria can inflame and destroy ...

Hardly a week after medical doctors suspended their three-week strike over pay, nurses and midwives have issued a one-week ultimatum to government to raise their salaries and better their working conditions or they down their tools. Check also: Doctors Set To Strike The nurses and midwives did not participate in the doctors’ strike, saying it was illegal but in a November ...

A controversial surgeon, Sergio Canavero who aims to carry out the world’s human head transplant claims to have successfully carried out the operation on a corpse. Check also: Valery Spiridonov to volunteer for first human head transplant in 2017 The 18-hour operation showed that it is possible to reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels, according to controversial surgeon Professor Sergio Canavero. At ...