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Call for action as cancer claims big names
Source: The Standard By PETER ORENGO Published on 26/12/2011 The year saw several prominent personalities succumb to what previously has been termed as the old people’s curse, cancer. According to…
Relief as government rules out Ebola following death at KNH
Source: Capital FM Posted by CATHERINE KARONGO on December 23, 2011 NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 23–Laboratory tests to establish the cause of death of a 29 year old lady who on…
Kenyan Hospital on Alert After Woman Dies of Hemorrhagic Fever Symptoms
Source: VOA newsblog Posted Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 at 12:30 pm Kenya’s largest referral hospital is on high alert after a woman with symptoms of hemorrhagic fever died on arrival…
The worm that turned – parasitic worms in Kenya and Uganda
Source: Wellcome Trust By: Meera Senthilingham 1 November 2011 Parasitic worms are a major cause of malnutrition in Africa. Health researchers have made major strides in combatting these infections, but…
Simple Steps Can Curb Childhood Deaths
Source: Allafrica.com By : Sylnia Kwach Nairobi — Although she is five years old, Rose Nduta is about the same height as a 20-month-old toddler. Pale, spindly-limbed and severely underweight,…
Kenya Medical Research Institute In ‘Final Stages’ of Development Herpes Drug
Source:http://www.freedominspeech.org/ Written by Admin Courtesy Behind the Mask Wednesday, 12 October 2011 10:02 Scientists at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kemri, say they are in the final stages of testing…
Kenya grapples with rising cases of cancer
Source: Daily Nation By:By JACOB NG’ETICH Posted Friday, October 7 2011 at 18:17 From an obscure and insignificant disease that was known to affect a few old or rich people,…
Health experts seek funding for ‘neglected diseases’
Source: Coastweek NAIROBI (Xinhua) — Clinical researchers and health experts in the region ended a five-day meeting in Nairobi on Friday by calling on governments to increase funding for the…
East African Physicians Urge Action on Neglected Disease
Source: Voice of America A parasite known as kala azar is said to infect half-a-million people worldwide, killing up to 60,000 people each year. Spread through the bite of a…
Polio alert issued after case in Nyanza
Source: Capital FM Posted by CATHERINE KARONGO on September 6, 2011 NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 6 – The government has issued an alert on a polio outbreak in the country following…
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