Health

A baby girl has been delivered from the womb of her mother who lay dying from injuries sustained in an Israeli airstrike on the southern city of Rafah. “The mother was 30 weeks pregnant and doctors at Kuwaiti hospital performed an emergency caesarean section in a bid to save her,” …

Headache is the painful and incapacitating manifestation of a limited number of primary headaches, namely migraine, tension headaches and cluster headaches. Headaches can have many different causes, ranging from stress and fatigue to more serious problems such as migraines, vision problems or infections. Headaches can be triggered by external factors …

Health in Africa is a complex and multifaceted subject. The African continent faces many health challenges, including infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, as well as non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. Here are some key points regarding health in Africa: Infectious diseases Despite progress made …

Kenyan public hospital doctors who have been on strike since last month convened in two major cities on Tuesday to discuss their grievances against the government, Reuters reported. The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU), which represents over 7,000 members, went on strike on March 15 to demand …

Kenya’s largest public referral hospital has announced it will dispose of hundreds of unclaimed bodies currently at its morgue if family members are unwilling to collect them. “Interested members of the public are therefore requested to identify and collect the bodies within seven days, failure to which the hospital will …

The Ugandan government has ordered ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) to institute weekly physical exercise sessions for their staff to tame the rising burden of lifestyle diseases, local media reported. The directive was shared in a letter to government agencies from the head of public service, Lucy Nakyobe, who said …

Several deaths have been recorded in the space of a few days due to the epicenter of the disease in Kabo, a locality in the Ouham-Fafa prefecture in the north-west of the Central African Republic. In just a few days, several victims have been recorded, while the locality is facing …

Health authorities in Burkina Faso reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a farm located in the capital Ouagadougou. The information was made public by the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) on Monday. The virus, also called avian influenza, killed 441 birds out of a flock …

A worrying wave of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has been observed in Europe, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warned this Thursday, March 7, which calls for increased prevention work. In 2022, cases of gonorrhea jumped by 48%, with 70,881 cases in the European Union, those of …

In a study published on Monday March 4 by The Lancet Infectious Diseases, scientists from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Erlangen looked at the case of a 62-year-old German man from the city of Magdeburg (central Germany) who has been vaccinated no less than 217 times …