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With lung cancer, quitters do better than smokers
Source: News24 5 October 2012, 09:45 Younger people with advanced lung cancer who quit smoking more than a year before their diagnosis survive longer than those who continue smoking, according…
Injectable contraceptives linked to increased breast cancer risk
Source: foxnews.com Written By Loren Grush Published April 05, 2012 An injectable form of progestin-only birth control has been found to double the risk of breast cancer in young women…
Experts meet to pass verdict on contraceptives
Source: Nairobi Star Monday, 30 January 2012 00:05 BY JOHN MUCHANGI WOMEN will tomorrow know if they should change use of injectable contraceptives after research revealed they double the likelihood…
Towards comprehensive social health insurance in Kenya
Source: Capital FM BY ANYANG NYONG’O The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) is moving in the right direction; it needs to be congratulated. Lessons learnt over a twenty year period…
Mwatate receives equipment worth Sh400 million
Source: The Star BY RAPHAEL MWADIME Tuesday, 03 January 2012 THE Mwatate District Hospital has received a boost after getting a donation of equipment worth Sh400 million from a Dutch…
City clerk’s New Year gift for 48 Pumwani mothers
Source: The Star Tuesday, 03 January 2012 00:10 BY STEPHENE SANGIRA Nairobi town clerk Philip Kisia yesterday bailed out 48 patients from the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, who had given birth…
KEMRI to produce haemorrhagic fever kits
Source: Capital FM By JUDIE KABERIA on December 30, 2011 NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 30 – The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) is next year expected to start manufacturing test kits…
New Year gift for a million Kenyans
Source: Daily Nation By SAMUEL SIRINGPosted Friday, December 30 2011 New Year came early for a million public servants, the disciplined forces and their families after the government announced a…
World’s first malaria vaccine on the way
Source; The Varsity by Maria Dimitrova Thursday 29th December 2011, 16:47 GM A team of researchers from Cambridge, Oxford, and Kenya have developed a vaccine that can potentially defeat all…
Sickle cell, the hidden disease killing children
Source: Nairobi Star By: Wacui Makori uesday, 11 October 2011 00:24 Whenever we think of childhood illnesses, malaria, diarrhoea or pneumonia seem to just jump at us, what about those…
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