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Almost six months after it started enforcing a law against the rampant sale of human organs, the government has claimed an �almost zero incidence" of organ trafficking since late June...Government started enforcing the implementing rules and regulations of the anti-human...

Thousands of parents have been left clueless as the number of infections and fatalities increases and the Ministry of Health has announced it may close schools nationwide if cases of pneumonia and H1N1 continue to rise. The return of 73,000...

The panel of 25 medical experts was on Wednesday expected to discuss tests conducted following complications with the liver she received in March 2007 and, according to City Press, the possibility of getting another new liver. Belinda Rossi, a transplant...

WHO now advises countries to phase out use of Stavudine as it has side-effects HIV-positive patients using a drug that the World Health Organisation says causes long term irreversible side-effects will have to make do with it until the government...

Maybe I am talking to the wrong person but perhaps you might be able to help,” Sarah said hesitatingly when I finished checking her twin son Lawrence. I had operated on Lawrence a couple of weeks earlier, when Dr Waiganjo,...

Tea farmers in the country received a record bonus this year as a combination of factors saw them emerge as the best paid tea growers in the world. But they are not a happy lot. Sh24.66 a kilogramme as a...

AP A Malagasy child receives a vaccination at a makeshift village clinic in Antanetikely, Madagascar (file) Share This A new study by the Measles Initiative, a coalition of U.N. and international organizations finds measles deaths worldwide fell by 78 percent...

Grad and Cottage Hospital ER Doc Jason Prystowsky Friday, December 4, 2009 When it comes to organizations doing critical work in the worst parts of the world, it’s hard to compete with Médecins Sans Frontières . Since its founding by...

By: Victor Ulasi, Nigeria “We can no longer take it, instead of love and respect from our husbands all we get are abuses, beatings, and disrespect on daily basis. The time has come when we defend ourselves andb v fight...

A steady stream of young men from urban townships and rural farms are lining up for a procedure that few Swazi men have undergone since the custom of removing a man's foreskin died out in the 19th century. "We are...