1. Experimental Parkinson’s blood test shows early promise
A blood test has been shown to detect Parkinson’s disease in a preliminary study, giving hope that doctors may be able to detect the condition at an earlier stage in the future.
The exper…
The national government will spend more than Sh2.3 billion on the upgrading of health facilities to level three status, the head of infrastructure development in the ministry of health, Michael Thuita, has said. Mr. Thuita, who was speaking at Urenga…
Heartbreaking stories of healthcare worker burnout have been widely covered in the media, but its impact extends beyond North America and Europe.
Frontline health workers worldwide face exhaustion and burnout at alarming levels, and in many places,…
Auditor General Junias Kandjeke gave the Oranjemund Town Council an adverse audit opinion for the 2020/21 financial year for its failure to provide financial statements on the true reflection of the institution’s financial standing.
An adverse audi…
Mayors of Indian Ocean countries are convening in Seychelles to discuss issues specific to the region including the circular economy and waste management as well as elect a new committee.
During the two-day workshop taking place at the Berjaya Beau…
As workplace dynamics evolve, generation Z and millennials face a pressing concern; one revealed in a 2022 comprehensive study spearheaded by Harvard University, which unveiled that these young individuals tallied the lowest life-satisfaction scores …
Each morning in Addis Ababa, the bustling capital of Ethiopia, the same scene plays out.
As the sun rises, thousands of commuters jostle for space on public minibuses. Others hop on the city’s light rail line, the first network of its kind in Afric…
Most of us know what a heatwave feels like on land – sweltering heat for days. But oceans get heatwaves too. When water temperature goes over a seasonal threshold for five days or more, that’s a marine heatwave. They do their worst damage in summer, …
It’s no secret that the global workforce is ageing along with populations. Fewer young people are entering the workforce due partly to lower fertility rates and partly to more extended education.
According to OECD data, a long-term trend toward ear…
Water is in crisis – as it is both a driver and victim of climate change. This year was supposed to be the year that water finally took its place in the spotlight: the first UN water conference in almost 50 years, held in March in New York, marked th…