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Brace for more heavy rains, warns Kenya Met Department

Nairobi, April 24 -- Kenya Meteorological Department director David Gikungu has warned Kenyans to brace for more heavy rains that could uproot trees and cause floods and mudslides. Dr Gikungu also re... Read More


Flu season is here: Concerns as KNH recordspatient influx

Nairobi, April 10 -- Doctors at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) say they have recorded a huge rise in the number of patients battling influenza. This has raised concerns that a major outbreak could ... Read More


How Kenyan medics are abusing women with forced sterilisations and getting away with it

Nairobi, April 8 -- Kenyan women seeking maternal health services are being subjected to non-consensual pelvic exams, forced sterilisation, and unnecessary caesarean sections without their consent, a ... Read More


Resign or we leave, disgruntled nurses warn KNUN SG Panyako

Nairobi, April 7 -- Disgruntled members of the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) have threatened a mass exodus from the union which boasts of over 20,000 members if their secretary general Seth Pa... Read More


Former deputy director of Africa CDC Ahmed Ogwell lands UN job

Nairobi, March 28 -- Dr Ahmed Ogwell, who previously served as the deputy director at Africa CDC, has been appointed the new vice president of global health strategy at the United Nations Foundation. ... Read More


Kemri researchers link hair relaxers to brain cancer

Nairobi, March 7 -- Researchers at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) have discovered formaldehyde, a harmful neurotoxin that can cause brain cancer and impair memory, in hair relaxers widel... Read More


New rules at African Union cost Kenyan top position at health body

Nairobi, March 6 -- Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) deputy director Dr Ahmed Ogwell, from Kenya, will be leaving the agency at the end of this month, a victim of new rul... Read More


Palestinian woman pleads with President Ruto to urge Israel to stop Gaza bombings

Nairobi, Feb. 28 -- Mariam Al Jaajaa, 37, arrived in Nairobi to attend the 6th session of the UN Environment Assembly (Unea-6). But she saw this as an environment to send a message to President Willi... Read More


Breakthrough: Relief for DCI as Kemri develops nationwide forensic database to track murderers and sex offenders

Nairobi, Feb. 16 -- The Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) is building a forensic reference DNA database that will help the government track down murder suspects, missing persons, disaster victi... Read More


Kenyan scientists develop DNA database to track down runaway criminals

Nairobi, Feb. 15 -- The Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) is building a forensic reference DNA database that will help the government track down murder suspects, missing persons, disaster victi... Read More