Tue 08 November 2022: Due to the confirmation of 23 Ebola cases among pupils, including eight fatal cases, all schools in Uganda will be closed two weeks before the scheduled end of the school year. Preschools, primary schools, and secondary schools will be closed on November 25 due to overcrowding in classrooms, according to Education […]
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Tue 08 November 2022: In what the health insurer has called a worrisome development, a ransomware gang has threatened to leak Medibank customer data as Australia’s largest health insurer faces a potential class action after the data of 9.7 million current and former customers was breached. When an unnamed group hacked into Medibank’s system a […]
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Tue 01 November 2022: Washington: (The Conversation) Detecting cancer early before it spreads throughout the body can be lifesaving. This is why doctors recommend regular screening for several common cancer types, using a variety of methods. Colonoscopies, for example, screen for colon cancer, while mammograms screen for breast cancer. While important, getting all these tests done […]
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Fri 28 October 2022: Kampala, Uganda – The Ugandan government is under pressure to bring an escalating Ebola outbreak under control, after the health minister announced that six schoolchildren in the capital city, Kampala, have tested positive for the virus. At least 15 people in Kampala are now confirmed to have been infected with Ebola, according […]
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Mon 24 October 2022: A large study published on Monday suggests that frequent use of hair-straightening products may significantly increase the risk of developing uterine cancer. The study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, incorporated data from almost 34,000 women in the United States over a period of around 11 years (10.9 […]
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Sat 22 October 2022: Zimbabwe has become the first nation in Africa and the third nation overall to approve an HIV prevention drug that the World Health Organization recently recommended (WHO). Zimbabwe has approved the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) […]
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Sat 22 October 2022: Following the discovery of a highly infectious strain of bird flu, Dutch health authorities were overseeing the cull of approximately 44,000 turkeys on a farm in the country’s south, the government said on Saturday. The farm is located in Hedel, 50 kilometers southeast of Utrecht. A transport ban has been imposed […]
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Fri 21 October 2022: Following nearly 100 children’s deaths from acute kidney injury this year, the Indonesian government banned all syrup and liquid pharmaceutical prescription and over-the-counter sales on Wednesday. The ban was imposed as Southeast Asian health officials investigated an unexplained increase in the number of paediatric deaths from acute renal damage since January. […]
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Fri 21 October 2022: According to a report released Wednesday, COVID19 was responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the United States last year, a crisis that disproportionately affected Black and Hispanic women. The research outlines depressing national patterns for expectant mothers and their newborn children. According to the study, there have been an increase in pregnancy-related mortality of almost 80% since 2018, with COVID-19 being a contributing factor in 25% of the 1,178 deaths reported in 2018. In addition, following years of […]
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File photo Thu 20 October 2022: A medical team of neurosurgeons and psychiatrists in Saudi Arabia have succeeded in alleviating a patient who was suffering from chronic depression over the past 25 years. The surgery, the first of its kind in the Middle East, was performed at the King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Medical City in […]
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