Do you drink sodas? If the answer is in affirmative, then you have been drinking yourself into an early grave. Prof. Moses Kamya, the Dean, School of Medicine at Makerere University encourages Ugandans to keep off sodas for it is dangerous for one’s health. “It is very unhealthy to take
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Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, 73, has revealed the secret behind his fitness and good health despite his advancing age. “I have managed to make it to 73 years of age because I do not drink alcohol. I have been here for the last 30 years and all this time you
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Exim Bank has donated over 110 hospital mattresses, sanitary towels, diapers, milk, sugar, clothes and other essential items to the Female Ward in Butabika Hospital. The Bank also painted the waiting room at the Female Convalescent Ward. This was on the Bank’s recent visit to the hospital where they were
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On the eve of World AIDS Day (December 1) Johnson & Johnson announced that its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies together with a consortium of global partners have initiated the first efficacy study for an investigational mosaic HIV-1 preventive vaccine. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and National Institutes of Health are
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The government of Uganda through National Drug Authority (NDA) has asked the public to go slow on a drug that is already on the Ugandan market, arguing that it presents the risk of abortion and birth defects . Victoria Nambasa, Director Product Safety at NDA says Fluconazole is the drug
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President Yoweri Museveni is unhappy with the striking doctors, noting that they betrayed him-for he had told them his plan to resolve their issues. Museveni made while addressed a rally at Karambi Sub-county Grounds in Burahya Constituency, Kabarole District on Thursday. “I thank the medical officers in Kabarole for not
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Striking doctors have refused to vacate government housing units as ordered by Ministry of Health, noting that they will not succumb to intimidation. This follows fresh orders from the Ministry of Health in which Government revealed plans to embark on a recruitment exercise to hire new doctors who can work
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Novartis, the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) announced Wednesday they will work together to devise a common approach to improve access to cancer treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa. Each partner brings unique expertise in cancer diagnosis and treatment. This complements the work the Clinton
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Cabinet has established a special committee to engage doctors with a view of persuading them to end the industrial action that started last week. The decision followed a briefing to the cabinet by Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng on a nationwide strike that has paralyzed medical services in public hospitals
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“The Head of State is pre-occupied with funding of the removal of age limits instead of being bothered with lives of Ugandans. Ugandans are dying because the doctors can’t get what to use in hospitals; they can’t get what can enable them to work while being motivated. Our question to
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