ANALYSIS AND COMMENTS

April 2018 Medicalnewstoday; After cancer surgery — particularly for breast cancer — many patients experience an early tumor recurrence. It is not clear why, but new research suggests that common pain-reducing, anti-inflammatory drugs may prevent that from happening. In many cancer types — especially in the case of breast cancer …

March 2018 MedicalNewsToday; Wired Health is held yearly in London, United Kingdom. It boasts a wide array of speakers from every corner of the health tech world, alongside forward-thinking companies who provide a glimpse of their latest offerings. This year was as varied as ever, and the talks covered how …

March 2018 Standardmedia; Human error is the single largest cause of serious injuries to boys in the ongoing HIV-related male circumcision programme in Kenya. Data presented last week at a scientific conference in Boston, US, shows five boys aged 10-15 to have had their genitals permanently damaged through wrong use of circumcision tools in the …

January 2018 Standardmedia; The risk of dying from scheduled surgery in Africa is more than double the global average, researchers said in a study shedding light on one of the continent’s biggest but poorly investigated health care problems. Patients who go under the knife in Africa in theory have a lower …

December2017 Dailynation; Kenya’s efforts to keep a healthy population are being hampered by the often-ignored ailments like seasonal influenza (flu), the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. In its situation report, WHO indicates that as many as 650,000 people die from respiratory problems annually, warning governments to focus more on …

November 2017 cnn; Tens of millions more Americans now have high blood pressure. Almost half of all Americans — 46% — are now considered to be in the high blood pressure category based on new guidelines released Monday. High blood pressure should be treated at 130/80 rather than 140/90, according …

November 2017 straitstimes; Young doctors are feeling burnt-out, and this affects their ability to empathise with patients, a local study has found. Researchers surveyed nearly 500 medical residents across 34 specialities in three public hospitals, eight in 10 of whom said they felt emotionally exhausted, lacking in personal accomplishment, or …

November 2017 Businessdaily; There has been this long-held belief that the highly technical medical degree courses are dominated by males. But a scrutiny of university enrolment data over the past 12 years paints a different picture, debunking the notion. The gender gap in enrolment of undergraduate medical courses has actually …

November 2017 Independent; Nobody wants to have open heart surgery. But if you do, you want to have it in that afternoon. That’s the conclusion of a major new study that found there is a significantly higher risk of damage for people having surgery in the morning. And it’s all …

October 2017 Standardmedia; The Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service (KNBTS) is incensed by reports that part of blood its bank is contaminated with HIV and syphilis. The report published three weeks ago in a foreign journal shows 6.2 per cent of donated blood had high levels of HIV, with as high …