Alternative medicine: Why after FDA finding that snake venom in approved drugs treats stroke convinces biohackers humans can live forever
For the biohackers, decentralisation is a feature, not a bug. It’s a safeguard against corruption. “The biohacking community,” Fabrizio “Fab” Mancini, a chiropractor and frequent flier of the daytime TV medical circuit, tells me, “is not owned by any one entity. It’s actual individuals.” In a community for whom deregulation is entirely the point, though, how do you screen for bullshit?
US health secretary’s ‘alternative medicine’ push inspired quest to ‘live forever’ via snake venom, urine therapy
Biohacking is a big tent, combining Silicon Valley technology, Burning Man spirituality and health libertarianism. If anything unites this crowd, it is a distrust of the medical status quo – particularly the pharmaceutical industry – and an appetite for tech-heavy alternatives.
Cruel husband and wife arrested for burning son’s hands with molten plastics for stealing, eating fish
The minor was then handed over to the Children’s Department in Ndhiwa before being taken to a safe house.
Six-million-dollar question: Are ‘wildebeest-like’ Bararo nomads still part of indigenous Ugandan communities?
We know that some years ago, during the reign of President Jakaya Kikwete in Tanzania, thousands of nomadic pastoralists were chased from Tanzania and they ended up in Uganda. When you tell the nomadic pastoralists to go where they came from, are you also telling them to go back to Tanzania?
Court stops burial of former Zambian President Lungu in South African an hour before funeral service
Edgar Lungu and President Hakainde Hichilema had a long history of political enmity in the southern African country. Lungu beat Hichilema in a 2016 presidential election, and his government imprisoned Hichilema for four months in 2017 on charges of treason because his convoy didn’t give way to the president’s motorcade on a road. The move to imprison Hichilema was widely criticized by the international community and Hichilema was released and the charges dropped.
Protests sweep Kenyan cities as East African nation commemorates young victims of extrajudicial killings
The death of blogger Albert Ojwang has become a lightning rod for Kenyans still mourning the deaths of protesters killed at last year’s demonstrations, blamed on security forces, along with rights groups claims of dozens of unexplained abductions.
New data doubt if Covid vaccines saved ‘millions and millions’ of lives, calls it a drug marketing gimmick
Building on our prior work, we critically examined the hypothetical statistical models that produced this extraordinary figure, as well as multiple randomised and controlled trials and large-scale observational studies that served as the empirical basis for the vaccine efficacy estimates fed into these models.
Marsabit County targets $15.5 million per annum from artisanal mining as Kenya goes through unprecedented ‘gold rush’ spell
According to Oscar Mwakughu, a superintendent of mines, the Hillo mining belt has the potential to generate over Ksh2 billion ($15.5 million) annually. Mwakughu noted that the enforcement of the 2016 Mining Act is essential not just for legal compliance but for sustainable development.
Anglican Church bishops launch blistering attack on President Ruto for condoning police brutality
Addressing journalists at the ACK New Cathedral Church in Kisumu, Maseno South Diocese Bishop Charles Onginjo, flanked by other ACK bishops from the six counties in the region, demanded that President Ruto act decisively on police brutality to restore public confidence in the security sector.
How Buffalo Bicycle became a timely intervention in health coverage in rural Uganda
In Uganda, an East African country of 45 million people, efforts to market the bicycle have focused on supporting health workers like Abalo, who visits people’s homes and reports any issues to authorities.
