Morbidity associated with injuries is a public health concern that we still pay little attention to in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda inclusive. Recent data shows that we may…
Bananas (matooke) are one of the most consumed foods on the planet since the ancient period. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) poses challenges to the nutritional status of the body. Several…
No doubt, Covid-19 is the most devastating global infectious disease since the 1918 Spanish flu. Initially thought of as a respiratory infection, Covid-19 causes multiorgan damage that culminates in substantial…
Teasdale and Jennett proposed the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) as a universal tool to assess coma and impaired consciousness in their ground-breaking article, which featured in The Lancet in 1974.…
We arbitrarily define death as the moment when a person simultaneously becomes apnoeic, unconscious, with an absent circulation. The moment of death, and therefore its diagnosis, is of paramount importance…
Herb-induced liver injury is an underreported phenomenon in daily medical practice in resource-limited settings. Patients hardly discern information related to which herbs they might have used before their presenting complaints.…
Every week we take you off the hooks of stress and introduce a book that we think may change how you observe things. Last week, we held you for a…
The R21/MM, the new malaria vaccine that researchers tried in Nanoro, Burkina Faso, has an efficacy of 77% in children aged 5-17 months - after receiving three 4-week interval doses…
When it comes to exercise, there’s no one size fits all. You choose what’s convenient for you as long as you achieve a desired degree of fitness. You must exercise…
According to the WHO Global Health estimates, ten diseases (conditions) accounted for 55% of the 55.4 million deaths globally in 2019. There were seven non-communicable diseases. The ten causes of…