Fears rise 122 million Americans drink water laden with unsafe cancer-causing chemicals
An analysis of testing results from community water systems in 49 states found that nearly 6,000 such systems serving 122 million people recorded an unsafe level of chemicals known as trihalomethanes at least once during testing from 2019 to 2023.
Labour court: Kenya’s biosafety authority boss remains interdicted, disciplinary proceedings against him will go on
The disciplinary process against Mugiira began on June 6, 2024, when the board requested an explanation for several instances of financial impropriety at the Authority. He is alleged to have tempered with the investigation into claims of misappropriation of the funds by the board.
The Nairobi Hospital addresses corruption, quality assurance as East Africa’s premier hospital parries integrity concerns
Acting Chief Executive Officer Felix Osano echoed the chair’s sentiments saying: “We are taking decisive steps to address challenges and ensure that The Nairobi Hospital remains a beacon of trust and quality healthcare in Kenya.”
US intelligence agency’s classified analysis offers detailed scientific view that Covid came from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology
The DIA has not publicly recognised the analysis as its official position on the matter. But, unlike other federal assessments that provide few details to back up their findings that Covid-19 likely emerged from a lab, the DIA assessment offers the most detailed US agency scientific analysis made public to date supporting why such a conclusion was drawn.
Kenya’s health minister launches committee to scrutinise, clear pending private hospital bills
Duale said the committee’s mandate is to establish a clear framework to assess the authenticity of each claim, recommend action on fraudulent submissions, and propose reforms to prevent future accumulation of unverified claims.
‘Primitive’ crops resurface in Migori County as Kenya’s Lake Victoria basin fends off high lifestyle diseases incidence
It is unfortunate that most of these foods are not served in many eateries frequented by the young people in the county and in Kenya as a whole. The young generation today would not differentiate between millet and sorghum and would out rightly dismiss ugali made from the crops as sludge.
Pushed on the edge, more and more Tunisians are turning to eating snails as an alternative to beef, veal and fish
Low in fat and high in iron, calcium and magnesium, snails offer both nutritional value and economic relief. In a country where unemployment runs high and median wages remain low, they cost about half as much as beef per kilogramme and often less when sold by the bowl.
Researcher terms polio vaccine a ‘fairy-tale’ and confesses the world was ‘lied to, vaccines didn’t eradicate polio’
Symptoms that would have been diagnosed as polio before the introduction of the vaccine are now attributed to lead or mercury poisoning, or have been given new names, like GBS and transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder that “follows the same pathology as polio,” Humphries said.
Drug abuse in Kenyan universities now major threat to knowledge industry as 27 per cent of students found to be hooked to substances
The school Deputy Principal Academics Dr Peter Ng’eny observed that the comprehensive report by NACADA was warning to those joining university urging them to download and read the report.
Made in US, ravaging Africans: Sierra Leone declared an emergency over powerful synthetic drug but women left behind
Despite new criminal, public health and prevention measures, only about 300 people have gone through the country’s official rehab program, according to available data. Most have been men. Women have been less visible in the crisis. Rights groups say they are historically left out.
