For decades, a diagnosis of sickle cell disease in Kenya was often accompanied by fear, uncertainty and grim predictions about survival. The belief that children born with the inherited blood disorder were not expected to live beyond adolescence permeated fear among many victims of the disorder and their families. Yet across the country, individuals living […]
The rising teenage pregnancy figures in Adaklu have been linked to gaps in parent-child communication, parental neglect and poverty, with child protection advocates calling for stronger family support…
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have identified a protein that may help an aggressive form of breast cancer spread to the brain and escape the body's immune defenses.
(MedPage Today) -- Giving no more than a week's worth of systemic antibiotics was as effective as a standard multi-week course for preventing treatment failure in patients who underwent surgery for…
