June 2019 CNBC; The antidote to fake health news? According to Austin Chiang, the first chief medical social media officer at a top hospital, it’s to drown out untrustworthy content with tweets, pics and posts from medical experts that the average American can relate to. Chiang is a Harvard-trained gastroenterologist …

June 2019 UNICEF; More than 5 million families across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean spend over 40 per cent of their non-food household expenses on maternal health services every year, UNICEF said today in a new analysis on maternal health. Nearly two-thirds of these households, or around 3 …

May 2019 YahooNews;Country folks have driven the recent global rise in obesity, a study published Wednesday suggests.  This contradicts the predominant thinking that links being overweight with urban living. “The results of this massive global study overturn commonly held perceptions that more people living in cities is the main cause of the …

May 2019 ;Kissing with tongues can spread the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea, researchers have warned. Scientists say the STI can be caught through saliva – despite the NHS dismissing kissing as a way of passing it on. And spreading the infection this way may be more common than expected, the Australian researchers …

May 2019 theStar. Referral hospitals in crisis. They are, suffering from ineffective patient-nurse ratio, lack of critical supplies and equipment, dilapidated structures, unsafe overcrowding and inadequate sanitation, among many other problems. A parliamentary Health committee report says there’s an almost total lack of plant and equipment maintenance and replacement at …

May 2019 Daily nation;A private hospital in Machakos County is on the spot again after a nurse allegedly administered a lethal injection to a seven-month-old baby on Sunday. The baby had been taken to Shalom Hospital after scalding his left hand with hot water. Baby Ethan Muendo passed on barely …

May 2019 Yahoo News; If signed by the governor, the new law would allow the state for the first time to punish dangerous plastic surgery facilities and shut down the worst offenders. The legislation passed after years of no regulation in Florida, where private investors opened high-volume, discount clinics that became magnets …

April 2019 NetWork Times;The measles outbreak continues to spread in the United States, surpassing 700 cases this year, federal health officials said on Monday. The virus has now been found in 22 states. More than 500 of the 704 cases recorded as of last Friday were in people who had …

April 2019. ;When women get a mammogram they may be offered one of two types. The older type of mammogram takes a single straightforward X-ray image of the breast. The newer 3D takes pictures from many angles. Now, more evidence shows that 3D mammography offers a more thorough picture of …

April 2019 Daily Nation; The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) may not review and pay claims to hospitals if the findings of the new reforms aimed at delivering Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022 are tabled in June, the Sunday Nationhas learnt. This follows complaints that most corruption cases rise …