Negative emotions, anxiety and depression are thought to promote the onset of neurodegenerative diseases and dementia. But what is their impact on the brain and can their deleterious effects be limited? Neuroscientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) observed the activation of the brains of young and older adults when confronted with the psychological suffering of others. The…
Uganda today declared the end of the Ebola disease outbreak caused by Sudan ebolavirus, less than four months after the first case was confirmed in the country’s central Mubende district on 20 September 2022. “Uganda put a swift end to the Ebola outbreak by ramping up key control measures such as surveillance, contact tracing and…
An innovation that is addressing procurement constraints is making drug stock-outs and shortage of medical equipment in health facilities in Rwanda a thing of the past. Viebeg Technologies, a venture capital-backed Health Tech company, is helping to expand access to affordable health care in Central and East Africa by aiding healthcare facilities in procuring supplies…
A new all-oral, six-month treatment regimen is safer and more effective at treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) than the current options, according to results of a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) study published in the New England Journal of Medicine today. These findings come from MSF’s TB PRACTECAL, the first-ever multi-country, randomized, controlled clinical trial to…
Researchers from the University of Oxford released findings from a clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of the antiviral treatment molnupiravir against COVID-19 – the first treatment tested in the ongoing PANORAMIC trial. In their paper published in The Lancet, they reported that molnupiravir did not reduce hospitalisations or deaths among higher risk, vaccinated adults with…
New COVID-19 infections reduced by 90 percent this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported. Although, they warn there are still too many uncertainties for them to say that the pandemic is over. Speaking to journalists during the weekly press conference on Thursday, where he gave an account of the state of global health,…
By Shiprah Kwagala Locals in Iganga district have asked that more vaccination centres are put in place as incentive for a higher uptake of Covid-19 booster doses. Records as of December 18, 2022 indicate that only 453,000 people have taken a booster dose out of an eligible population of 28.5 million people. In a televised…
President Yoweri Museveni has reiterated the need for the population to continue to observing the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for COVID-19. He outlined the need for continued hand washing, and hand hygiene, no shaking hands and no hugging, wearing face masks when in enclosed places like places of worship, conferences, meetings, crusades, which are exaggerated during the…
Scientists have questioned the approach used by the government to control disease outbreaks and pandemics using coerce law enforcement. Speaking at the launch of a report, “Finding Humanity in uncertainty: Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Uganda released by the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS) on Tuesday, David Serwadda a Professor of Public Health at…
The Third Deputy Prime Minister Rukia Isanga Nakadama has directed all Residents District Commissioners and Resident City Commissioners to take tough action against the rampant cases of drug theft and medical supplies in government hospitals. Nakadama who is also the Minister Without Portfolio noted that the country is registering numerous cases of drug thefts and…