OPINION: Ability to store insulin without refrigeration a game-changer in refugee camps

By Guest Writer,

By Sharon Kiburi Management of diabetes, a condition requiring daily injection of insulin, is much easier with development of drugs that can be sto...

Diabetes , insulin , MSF

Legendary talk show host Larry King hospitalized with Covid-19

By CNN,

Legendary talk show host and former CNN interviewer Larry King has Covid-19, according to a source close to the family. King, 87, has been hospital...

coronavirus , larry king

COVID-19 vaccines: What seniors can expect

By CNN,

Covid-19 vaccines are on the way. What should older adults expect? The first candidates, from Pfizer and Moderna, could arrive before Christmas, ac...

coronavirus , covid-19 vaccine

Matungu MP Justus Murunga dies in Mumias

By Tonny Ndungu,

Matungu Member of Parliament, Justus Murunga has died. The 60-year-old legislator, the family confirmed, died on Saturday night after developing br...

Matungu MP Justus Murunga

Kenya’s top five nurses to be awarded for outstanding work with diabetes patients

By Citizen Reporter,

Kenya’s top five nurses who have shown outstanding performance and contributions to diabetic patients will be awarded during this year’s World Dia...

Diabetes

Governor Lee Kinyanjui cautions Nakuru residents over rising COVID-19 cases

By Kiprotich Kimetto,

Nakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui has raised concern over the escalation in the spread of COVID-19 infections in rural areas in the county. He said the...

coronavirus

Kirinyaga residents urged to embrace routine cancer screening

By Johnson Muriithi,

Residents of Kirinyaga County have been urged to embrace routine screening for cancer to enable early diagnosis and timely treatment. Speaking duri...

Nakuru nurses plead for more PPEs, hospital beds as COVID cases soar

By Robert Maina,

Nakuru nurses have appealed to the National and County governments to equip them with enough Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). The nurses at Nak...

coronavirus , Nakuru.

Doctors probe whether COVID-19 is causing diabetes

By Reuters,

Mario Buelna, a healthy 28-year-old father, caught a fever and started having trouble breathing in June. He soon tested positive for COVID-19. Week...

coronavirus , Diabetes

Isolating because of COVID-19? This is what it could be doing to your body.

By CNN,

Since the pandemic officially began in March, we've been told staying home is the best way to avoid catching Covid-19. And it is. But life in confinem...

coronavirus

COVID-19: South Africa in 5th place on global map as continent cases top 1M

By Reuters,

South Africa is the world's fifth worst-hit nation and makes up more than half of sub-Saharan Africa's case load. The country's health ministry sai...

coronavirus , south africa

We’re only just beginning to learn how COVID-19 affects the brain

By CNN,

One of the more puzzling aspects of the novel coronavirus is just how many organ systems are impacted through the course of the disease. We've heard a...

coronavirus

Why COVID-19 is killing diabetes patients at alarming rates

By Reuters,

Darrell Cager Sr., 64, had diabetes. So his youngest daughter urged him to seek care. The next day, he collapsed and died in his New Orleans home. ...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , Diabetes

COVID-19: Diabetes, obesity declared risk factors as Kenya records 375 new cases

By Ian Omondi,

The country’s health ministry on Saturday termed diabetes, obesity and hypertension as risk factors for COVID-19 as the caseload for the disease ros...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , Dr. Rashid Aman

COVID-19: Kenya records 667 new cases, 311 recoveries, 11 deaths

By Ian Omondi,

Kenya's COVID-19 infections on Friday shot to 16,268 after 667 more patients were diagnosed with the disease from 5,075 samples tested within the last...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , Dr. Mercy Mwangangi

Kenya hires 20 Cuban doctors to fight COVID-19 as cases rise to 12,062

By Ian Omondi,

The Kenyan government has sought the services of 20 specialised Cuban doctors to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in the country as the...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , CS Mutahi Kagwe , Cuban doctors

Coronavirus poses threat to people living with diabetes

By Dorcas Wangira,

45-year-old Thomas Nyandoro Kauzi, who lives in Surungai, Kapsabet, Nandi county has been living with diabetes and hypertension since 2008. He work...

coronavirus , Diabetes

How coronavirus affects the entire body

By CNN,

Coronavirus damages not only the lungs, but the kidneys, liver, heart, brain and nervous system, skin and gastrointestinal tract, doctors said Friday ...

coronavirus

Kagwe: Coronavirus cases surpass 9,000 as first doctor succumbs

By Citizen Reporter,

Eight more people have died from COVID-19 in Kenya within the last 24 hours raising the death toll to 181. Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said one of those...

coronavirus , kagwe

OPINION: Will telemedicine in Kenya outlast COVID-19?

By Guest Writer,

By Dr. Robert Korom Telemedicine has witnessed explosive growth globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the technology that enables tel...

MyDawa , telemedicine