COVID-19 symptom

Kenyans warned of new Covid-19 symptoms

Kenyans and medics have been advised to be vigilant after reports that people infected by coronavirus across the world were exhibiting new symptoms. The ministry has also projected that the peak of infections in the…

COVID-Organics

Madagascar to sign confidentiality clause with WHO on…

President Andry Rajoelina says Madagascar will sign a confidentiality clause with the World Health Organization on the formulation of COVID-Organics, the purported cure for the coronavirus pandemic. He disclosed this after a teleconference with WHO…

COVID-19 Cases

Health: Uganda’s COVID-19 cases rise to 227

The number of COVID-19 cases in the country has risen to 227 after 24 people tested positive to the virus. The new cases include 14 Kenyans, six Tanzanians and four Ugandans who entered the country…

Heart failure

Have heart failure? Take precautions during pandemic

Heart failure raises the risk of complications and death from Covid-19, and requires extra vigilance during the pandemic, the American Heart Association (AHA) says. More than six million people in the United States have heart…

Cure

Kenya set to turn herbal medicine to treat…

Kenya has identified some herbal medicines likely to treat and could possibly cure Coronavirus. The front-runner is a herbal product developed by the Kenya Medical Research Institute to treat herpes simplex, a common viral disease…

COVID-19

Guinea-Bissau PM, 3 others test positive for COVID-19

The Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, Nuno Gomes Nabiam, announced on Wednesday that he had been contaminated by the new coronavirus, and, according to the Minister of Health, three other members of the government are also…

Drugs

Top scientist in Kenya unveils ARV drugs to…

A US-based Kenyan scientist has unveiled the world's first antiretroviral (ARV) drug to be taken once-a-year. Prof Benson Edagwa and his colleagues at the University of Nebraska Medical Center modified an existing ARV drug -…

Ebola epidemic

Escapee delays countdown to Ebola epidemic in the…

The latest Ebola patient was discharged from hospital on Sunday in Beni, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where authorities are searching for another patient who has escaped, delaying the end of the epidemic. A seven-year-old…

Kenya: The similarities of Spanish flu to coronavirus

The 1918 influenza pandemic – called the “Spanish flu” – remains the most significant public health event ever recorded in human history. It’s estimated that half a billion people were infected, and that between 20…

Malaria

Why malaria raises the risk of death in…

As the world grapples with the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, experts have warned that malaria infection is increasingly responsible for Nigerians dying from the pandemic and vice-versa, since about 97 per cent of the population…