New Effort Targets the Leading Killers of Children
Source: Inter Press Service
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-22 15:35:20 -0700 | health-news
IPS Articles No parent should have to bury a child because of something we can help prevent or treat, Davis said. Diarrhea and pneumonia are two diseases that overwhelmingly affect children in African and Asian countries, Davis said, with diarrhea...
Man in court on fake medical doctor charge
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-22 14:46:14 -0700 | health-news
A man accused of pretending to be a doctor and treating patients in a public hospital was on Wednesday arraigned in court. Mr Francis Elgoit Kadaya, alias Dr Kadaya, denied that he went around the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital...
Here's a chance to ease the misery of fistula
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-22 09:46:43 -0700 | health-news
Kenya has made important progress in preventing and treating obstetric fistula. There have been efforts to educate women and communities about the availability of treatment, training of surgeons to do fistula repairs, equipping hospitals to handle these repairs, and establishing...
Polio cases found in Kenya and Somalia, WHO says
Source: Town Journal
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-24 03:15:58 -0700 | health-news
Kenya (AP) The World Health Organization says the Horn of Africa is experiencing an outbreak of polio with cases confirmed in Kenya and Somalia. WHO said Wednesday that a 4-year-old girl near the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya and two...
Major depression: Who is at risk?
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-21 10:41:39 -0700 | health-news
Last week, dozens of psychiatric patients absconded from Mathari Mental Hospital . This incident has placed the management of mental illness institutions in the spotlight. I thought I should take this opportunity to discuss major depression, one of the most...
High levels of toxins in food causing damage
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-21 10:41:33 -0700 | health-news
Rating In Summary The thing about food is that it is personal. Every lump that lies on your table, every slice that you hold in your hand, every crumb that you turn in your mouth, every bolus that goes down...
Disclose HIV status
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-20 14:17:18 -0700 | health-news
Rating In Summary Now the National Aids Control Council is on a charm offensive, trying to persuade prominent personalities living with the virus to come out in the open and admit it, with the aim of assuring Kenyans that Aids...
Society should stop neglect of mental patients
Source: Daily Nation
Gilgil :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-18 12:46:36 -0700 | health-news
The daring and shocking escape by 40 patients from Mathari mental and referral hospital earlier in the week is a challenge to society to spare a thought on the inconvenient subject of mental health in Kenya. The Kenyan society stands...
Kenya: New Kibera Clinic Increases Access to Free Medical Care
Source: Africa Headlines
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-17 01:41:19 -0700 | health-news
Nairobi The international humanitarian medical organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) today inaugurates a new clinic in Kibera South. The centre offers comprehensive basic healthcare and maternity services integrated with the management of chronic diseases like HIV, targeting one of...
State urged to probe patients escape from Mathari
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-16 03:18:18 -0700 | health-news
The government should investigate the circumstances that led to the Sunday's escape of mentally ill patients from Mathari Hospital, Nairobi, a lobby group has demanded. Read ( Patients escape from Mathari hospital ) The International Institute for Legislative Affairs (ILA)...
Explain Mathari escape
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-15 11:08:05 -0700 | health-news
Rating In Summary For one, the men would not have broken out if they were satisfied...The escape of 75 patients from Mathari Mental Hospital early this week is quite disturbing. It is good that the majority have returned, either on...
Hypertension can be managed
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-14 10:14:36 -0700 | health-news
Rating In Summary Some people think that when they feel better, they can go off high blood pressure medicine. A decade or so ago, everyone said that hypertension, or high blood pressure, was a disease of the West...When one has...
My family sticks together in sickness and in health
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-14 10:14:19 -0700 | health-news
For instance, whenever our daughter returns home with a bug she has picked from wherever, she passes it on. I am usually the next one in the receiving line, passing it to Tenderoni after it has worsened. Guys, don't give...
Kenyan mentally ill patients escape
Source: BBC
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-24 00:01:15 -0700 | health-news
Kenyan patients escape from Nairobi's Mathari hospital Forty mentally ill patients have escaped from the Mathari Mental Hospital in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after overpowering guards, police say. A search has been launched for the patients, some of whom are known...
It isn't called beauty sleep for nothing
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-12 08:10:01 -0700 | health-news
Rating In Summary It can lead to comedones, which are the clumps that form when this gunk gets trapped underneath the skin. Nobody wears as much make-up as celebrities, more so the screen ones who get a lot of face...
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