Cancer: Why hospitals in Africa are learning to ‘put life into your days, not days into your life’
Kenya has a national policy that compels nearly all public hospitals to have palliative care units, and the government’s National Health Insurance Fund covers hospital-based treatment. That could soon be extended to home-based care, picking up some of the associated costs like gloves and syringes.
300 pages of emails detail how US health officials covered up dangerous side-effects of Covid vaccines
The 300-page batch of documents released to CHD on April 21 contains emails between the NIH and people reporting Covid-19 vaccine injuries. CHD requested the documents via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in November 2022. On April 12, 2023, CHD sued the NIH to obtain the records after the NIH did not respond to the request.
Crime in grime: To get children hooked to junk, food giants ‘turn their tongues against their brains’
Recently, a Goldman Sachs study estimated that by 2028 up to 70 million Americans will be taking the new weight-loss drugs, whose longer-term effects are yet to be known. Their apparent present success in suppressing extra food intake is already worrying the fast-food chains like McDonald’s that thrive on selling huge cheeseburgers.
Chicago celebrates teen who joined university at 10, at 17 years earned PhD from Arizona State
Tillman earned a bachelor’s in humanities from New York’s Excelsior College in 2018. About two years later, she earned her master’s of science from Unity College in Maine before being accepted in 2021 into Arizona State’s Behavioural Health Management Programme.
Nigeria’s fashion, dancing styles come alive as spotlight shines on Prince Harry and Meghan in Lagos
The couple, invited to the West African nation by its military, were treated to different bouts of dancing, starting from the Lagos airport where a troupe’s acrobatic moves left both applauding and grinning. One of the dancers, who looked younger than five years old, exchanged salutes with Harry from high up in the air, standing on firm shoulders.
How a patient in rural Ugandan village known to be a hot spot for sickle cell disease gives hope to others
Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited disorders in which red blood cells – normally round – become hard, sticky and crescent shaped. The misshapen cells clog the flow of blood, which can lead to infections, excruciating pain, organ damage and other complications.
Critics say US’ legalisation of plant-grown meat is a ‘dangerous grand experiment’ that’ll hurt health and environment
In the case of Piggy Sooy, “They’re creating a transgenic life form – they’re taking the genes from a totally different species, in this case an animal, and inserting them into existing soy genetics. What could go wrong? We don’t know.” Yet, these products “will eventually be involved in agriculture, because those seeds that they’re genetically modifying will go in soil, will go in the environment,” Kastel said. “The impacts are unknown.”
AstraZeneca withdraws dangerous Covid vaccines worldwide that cause blood-clots, memory loss
Despite these known dangers, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in December 2021 that the AstraZeneca vaccine was “excellent,” adding that “there is no indication to not use it.” The WHO reiterated these claims in June 2022, saying the AstraZeneca vaccine is “safe and effective for all individuals aged 18 and above.”
Relief for patients as Kenyan doctors agree to end national strike after almost two months
The end of the strike comes as a relief to millions of Kenyans seeking health services from public hospitals that had been crippled by the strike. Some hospitals had decided to hire temporary doctors for emergency services.
Truth behind the fake meat industry: New film exposes in detail health risks of lab-grown meat
Considering the well-established effects of ultra-processed foods, it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out about the health effects of lab-grown and cultured meats, which are the epitome of ultra-processed food.
