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COMMENT | Judith Hope Kiconco |  I recently passed by Quality shopping mall in Naalya close to the peak shopping hours to pick up a few items on my way home. The queues were growing longer, reason being that out of the many tills, only two were operating with the …

Geneva, Switzerland | XINHUA |  The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared on Saturday that the current multi-country monkeypox outbreak outside of the traditional endemic areas in Africa has already turned into a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). After reconvening the WHO Emergency Committee on Thursday concerning the …

| AMY NORTON | Scientists have unearthed a possible reason why men tend to die at younger ages than women: Those who lose Y chromosomes from their blood cells as they age may be more vulnerable to heart tissue scarring and heart failure. The research is the latest to look …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women in the health sector earn less than their male counterparts, this is according to a new report published by the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization. According to the report, women in the health sector face a bigger gender pay gap compared …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Last week, Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament Betty Bakireke Nambooze travelled to the United States of America for treatment after she had been cleared by the Uganda Medical Board. This development came after three years of being rebuffed several times by the Uganda Medical Board, …

Lack of diagnostic facilities escalates the problem Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | The problem of antimicrobial resistance in infectious agents has been rising, and there is global concern that in the absence of interventions to reverse this trend, the means to treat infectious diseases will be limited and out …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sixty Ugandans being treated for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis have recently succumbed to the disease. Medical doctors say the number is too high since the globally allowed figure is 5 percent of all detected cases. Annually, an estimated 1,500 cases of MDRTB are registered in …

Is it really the most important meal of the day? HEALTH | AGENCIES | Breakfast is often described as the most important meal of the day, but is skipping this morning meal really detrimental to health? Breakfast literally means “to break the fast.” It is the first meal of the …

Ottawa, Canada | Xinhua |  The Public Health Agency of Canada on Monday confirmed a total of 235 cases of monkeypox in the country as of June 24. In a statement, the health agency provided an update on the confirmed cases, including two cases from British Columbia, four from Alberta, …

Kigali, Rwanda | THE INDEPENDENT | The monkeypox outbreak does not currently constitute a global public health concern, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, although the agency called for intense response efforts to control further spread. The rare viral disease, occurs primarily in tropical rainforest areas of Central and …