Health Associated Infections: Why hospitals could make you sicker

By Citizen Reporter,

Medics could be skilled but if their tools are contaminated, the danger of leaving the hospital in a worse state become a real possibility and there�...

Health Associated Infections

Reasons a woman may not know she’s pregnant at six weeks

By CNN,

We've heard that women often don't know they're pregnant at six weeks, so we asked experts to tell us why. Here's what CNN learned: The reality is ...

MENSTRUATION , periods , pregnancy , pregnancy test

Surgeons perform first HIV-to-HIV kidney transplant

By VOA,

For the first time, a person living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant recipient also living with HIV. A team from Johns Hopkins Medicin...

HIV , Kidney transplant

Surgeons perform first HIV-to-HIV Kidney transplant

By VOA,

For the first time, a person living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant recipient also living with HIV. A team from Johns Hopkins Medicin...

Kidney transplant

UN escalates emergency aid for Malawi, Mozambique cyclone victims

By VOA,

U.N. agencies are making preparations to provide emergency aid to hundreds of thousands of victims of Tropical Cyclone Idai in response to appeals fro...

emergency , Malawi , Mozambique , UN

Venezuela staggers under massive power, communications outage

By VOA,

Venezuela’s worst power and communications outage Friday deepened a sense of isolation and decay, endangering hospital patients, forcing schools and...

Venezuela

Morning exercise, short breaks from sitting lower high blood pressure

By Reuters,

Combining 30 minutes of morning exercise with short walking breaks throughout the day may help control blood pressure, an Australian study suggests. ...

low blood pressure

Weight loss surgery may increase fracture risk

By Agencies,

Certain types of weight loss surgery may weaken bones, increasing the risk of breaks, according to a recent study from Taiwan. Weight loss procedur...

health , obese , weight loss , world

Healthy diets may not work depending on your body

By Agencies,

When two people follow the same weight-loss diet to the letter, but one fails to lose weight, the problem might be their bodies’ different responses...

body type , health , healthy diets , weight loss

Weight-loss surgery can bring lasting improvement in sexual function

By Reuters,

Weight-loss surgery has more benefits than simply slimming a patient down, it may also result in lasting improvements to sexual functioning, a new stu...

sexual health , weight loss

Semenya releases list of experts for battle with IAAF at CAS

By Reuters,

Caster Semenya has released a list of experts she will call in her appeal hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) this week in her fight a...

Caster Semenya , IAAF , Sebastian Coe

‘Brokenness’ poses higher risk of heart disease for African-Americans: study

By Reuters,

African-American adults who often struggle to pay bills may be more than twice as likely to develop heart disease than their counterparts who don’t ...

African Americans , heart disease

Delayed newborn baths tied to higher breastfeeding rates

By Reuters,

Newborns who don’t get baths right away may be more likely to be exclusively breastfed than infants who get whisked away to be washed soon after del...

breastfeeding

Eating lots of meat tied to higher risk of liver disease

By Reuters,

People who eat a lot of animal protein may be more likely to have excessive fat in their livers and a higher risk of liver disease than individuals wh...

liver disease

Why 18 to 30-year-olds should exercise

By Agencies,

Young adults who exercise may have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease and higher survival odds decades later than their peers who aren’t as acti...

Love red meat? Here’s why you should have less

By Agencies,

Red meat – but not other types of protein - is linked to an increased stroke risk, and the odds go up the more meat people eat, a recent study sugge...

health , red meat , stroke

Diabetes does not appear to affect children’s test scores

By Reuters,

Kids living with type 1 diabetes are no different from their peers in their reading and math test scores, a Danish study suggests. The less common ...

Diabetes

Low carbs diet will give you a ‘pot’ belly

By Lisa Kamau,

When you read healthy living magazines and weight loss articles online, you come away with the feeling that bread is the devil’s food and cakes were...

africa , carbohydrates , diet , health , kenya , weight loss

Kenyans mourn legendary musician Ayub Ogada

By Citizen Reporter,

Legendary musician Job Seda, popularly known as Ayub Ogada, has died. The artiste known for popular songs such as Koth Biro, Obiero, Ondiek, and ma...

ayub ogada , Hugh Masekela , Oliver Mtukudzi

Patient kills another, injures 8 at Nanyuki Hospital

By Sharon Nkonge,

A family in Timau is seeking justice after their 42-year-old son was killed on Saturday night in unclear circumstances at Nanyuki Teaching and Referra...

killed , Nanyuki , patient