MoH to scale up numbers of GeneXpert® system from Cepheid
By Samwel Doe Ouma @samweldoe As efforts are intensified to ensure that Kenya becomes Tuberculosis (TB) free by 2035, the...
Kenya Should address gaps related to screening and diagnosis of T.B to achieve its eradication goals by 2035
By Samwel Doe Ouma Jane Wakesho (not her real name) a former community health volunteer at the Coast General Hospital...
Shanghai Covid lockdown extended to entire city
Chinese authorities have extended their lockdown of Shanghai to cover all its 25 million people after a fresh surge in...
Kenya has a yellow fever outbreak: how to deal with it
Eunice Anyango Owino, University of Nairobi On 5 March 2022, Kenya declared an outbreak of yellow fever in Isiolo County...
Covid: Why are so many people catching it again?
In the early days of the pandemic, it was extremely rare to hear of people catching Covid twice. That's not...
Two million children stunted, malnourished, experts reveal
An estimated two million children in Kenya are stunted, nutritionists meeting in Nairobi have said. Delegates attending the 1st National Maternal,...
Matching drugs to DNA is ‘new era of medicine’
We have the technology to start a new era in medicine by precisely matching drugs to people's genetic code, a...
Shanghai Covid: China announces largest city-wide lockdown
China has announced its biggest city-wide lockdown since the Covid outbreak began more than two years ago. The city of...
Kenya researchers explore use of bacteriophages as alternative to fight drug resistance pathogens
By Samwel Doe Ouma @samweldoe Kenyan research scientists are exploring use of bacteriophages-naturally occurring and abundant viruses that target bacteria-...
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