Health

More than 70 people have been admitted to Bwera Hospital in Kasese district following an outbreak of Cholera. Check also: Measles Outbreak In Kampala And Wakiso Kasese district health Officer Yusuf Baseka confirms the outbreak and says that no deaths have so far been recorded. He says the most affected people are from Bukonzo West constituency, an area neighbours the Democratic ...

Kenya will soon start harvesting kidney from ‘dead’ patients and transplant it to those suffering from kidney failures upon consent from the deceased families. Check also:  A Kenyan Teen, Caroline Wambui Develops Organ-Matching App The chairman of the Kenya Renal Association scientific committee Dr Maranga Wambugu said currently the Ministry of Health is having talks with different stakeholders on the regulations ...

The ministry of health has announced a measles outbreak in two central districts of Kampala and Wakiso. Check also: First death of measl in US since 2003 Prof Anthony Mbonye, the ministry’s Acting Director General of Health Services said in a statement that  the airborne disease has already been confirmed in seven people after laboratory tests were done within the month ...

A five-year-old boy from Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, has become the youngest patient in Africa to receive an artificial heart, the Maboneng Heart Institute said on Wednesday. Check also: Eating Chocolate Helps Prevent Common Heart Problems – Study Tells Mnotho Mndebele, who weighs only 17kg, is also one of the youngest and smallest patients in the world to have had a heart ventricular ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified processed meat as Sausages something that causes cancer. And it has classified red meat as a probable carcinogen, something that probably causes cancer. IARC is the cancer agency of the World Health Organization. Check also: This Juice Prevents Cancer, Lowers High Blood Pressure And Cleanses Your Liver Processed meat includes hot dogs, ...