Free HIV test can offer boon of peace of mind
free hiv testing can offer peace of mind BY THOMAS E. BERTRAND It was September 1994, and I had...
Health
Breast cancer risk blood test could offer early warning
A simple blood test could offer many women an early warning of breast cancer even if they do not inherit genes...
Women who give birth later live longer
Women who are able to naturally have children later in life are more likely to live longer, according to a...
Weight loss lifts mood, improves sleep quality
maintain a healthy body Weight loss improved sleep quality in the sixth month, as well as mood (symptoms of...
Watching Too Much TV Leads to Premature Death
Is Watching TV Killing You? Too Much Leads to Premature Death Watching TV has the potential to cost you a lot...
International Day against Drug Abuse 2014 today
The international world's day-against-drug Dhaka: The United Nations’ International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on Thursday. Each year...
Why smoking is MORE deadly and addictive than it was 50 years ago.
Deadlier than ever: The report illustrates how cigarettes have changed over the last 50 years Cigarettes are more dangerous than...
Mobile phones carry owners’ bacterial ‘fingerprint’
Smartphones reflect the personal microbial world of their owners, say US scientists. More than 80% of the common bacteria...
ARVs Drought Hits Kabale Hospital
Kabale regional referral hospital has run out of the second antiretroviral drugs living hundreds of people living with HIV stranded....
Staring at screen for more than 7 hours a day can damage your eyes!
Working in front of a monitor for longer period of tine may lead to symptoms similar to those of...
Outbreak of Ebola virus epidemic kills over 300 as WHO convenes summit
Ebola virus in West Africa claiming hundreds of lives There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola which kills...
Maternal Exposure to Pesticides linked to Autism in Children
Exposure to certain pesticides while in the mother's womb can increase the risk of autism spectrum d isorder (ASD)...
Child abuse ‘has serious consequences for brain development’
Researchers found that individuals who had been exposed to childhood maltreatment had much smaller volumes of gray matter in...
Safe Blood Transfusion: A Key Element to Achieving Millennium Development Health Goals – Experts
Geraldine Ssali, the acting MD- NSSF, addresses the media as Lilian Chimpaye,the PRO- NSSF, donates blood during the official launch...
7 family members admitted after eating poisoned bread
Nine-year old Juliet Nakungu on her hospital bed yesterday after eating bread suspected to have been laced with poison. Kayunga-...
Watching TV ‘has no benefits for toddlers’: Children who spend longer in front of the screen ‘perform worse academically’
Positives: Professor Murray said watching the same programme over and over is helpful, as it gives developing brains time to...
Uganda to be HIV- free by 2020-Rugunda
Ambitious: Health minister Ruhakana Rugunda As regional campaigns for elimination of mother-to-child HIV/Aids transmission (EMTCT) peaked in West Nile last...
Teenagers who are physically fit do better in exams than couch potatoes
Teenagers who are physically fit do better in exams, new research suggests. And those who are lazy see their performance...
World Sickle Cell Day 2014: Causes, Symptoms and Treatments
SCD is a genetic blood disorder and sufferers might require frequent blood transfusions World Sickle Cell Day, celebrated on...
Antidepressant suicide warnings ‘may have backfired’
A study, in the British Medical Journal, showed a sudden fall in antidepressant prescriptions and a rise in suicide attempts...