health

Reading Time: < 1 minute Njeri Migwi’s phone buzzes incessantly. Phone calls and messages keep coming in from women seeking help to escape life-threatening situations.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute A major study by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that patients who received blood from donors who later suffered brain haemorrhages,…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Pressure is building on authorities in Italy to close a notorious Rome migrant detention center where a 19-year-old Guinean allegedly hanged himself last…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The United States on Friday said Zimbabwean officials last month “abruptly detained and deported” U.S. Agency for International Development officials who had…

Reading Time: < 1 minute More than 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Jayashree Owhal, a 45-year-old cane cutter from India’s western state of Maharashtra, made a life-changing decision when the pain of her menstrual cramps became unbearable.  Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Doctors have sounded the alarm on tiny plastic particles entering the human body after finding people with higher levels in blood vessels…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) has decried the poor working conditions in the country’s health sector. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Cancer patients in England could be at risk because NHS staff are overstretched and exhausted, the official complaints body has warned. Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The kidnapping of 287 grade school students by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria this week was only the latest in a slew of…