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Spina bifida is a condition present at birth when there are problems with the spine, spinal cord, and the surrounding nerves. It is a type of neural tube defect (NTD)...

Police in India have blamed rats for destroying nearly 200kg (440lb) of cannabis seized from dealers and kept in police stations."Rats are tiny animals and they have no fear of...

  BY DOROTHY NALUMANSI Councilors of the ad hoc committee on garbage management of Nansana Municipal council want all companies responsible for collecting garbage tenders re-advertised over what they have...

The Uganda Prisons Services has banned visits to inmates in five districts following the outbreak of Ebola.  A statement by the Uganda Prisons Service Spokesperson, Frank Mayanja Baine, says the Commissioner...

By Dorothy Nalumansi "We can't thank our dear Rt. Hon. Tayebwa enough!! It takes more than gallantry to be that bold and solid amidst such a meeting," Bishop Twinomujuni said...

Parliament has reconsidered the Public Health (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which was returned by President Yoweri Museveni. While presenting the report of the Committee of Health on reconsideration of the Bill,...

Vendors in Hoima Central Market want it closed over poor sanitation. This follows the blockage of the sewage line leading to the free flow of human waste around the busy market,...

The Ministry of Health has revealed that it will commence trials of three vaccines developed to combat Ebola Sudan virus which has since September killed 43 people out of 153...

The Ebola Surveillance Team at the Masaka Regional Referral Hospital is concerned about the current grasshopper season given the Ebola outbreak that has affected several districts in central Uganda. The...

Another medical doctor in Mubende district has succumbed to Ebola Virus Disease as the area continues to be ravaged by the deadly monster, authorities have confirmed.  Dr John Grace Walugembe...