If you get frequent, repeated, identical headaches, that is usually on one side of the head and pulsates like a clock from hell you most likely have a migraine headache. These are sometimes blamed on ‘my sinuses’. A migraine headache is made worse by exposure to bright light and loud noise. People with a migraine headache Continue reading Preventing Migraine Headaches
There is a symbiotic relationship between communication and leadership effectiveness. It is therefore not a coincidence that good leaders also tend to be good communicators. Axelrod (2002 p.4) observes that “effective leadership is still largely a matter of communication.” Continue reading The importance of communication to leader effectiveness
I once had a chat with a female colleague who chimed that her husband would generally avoid her once it is a week to her period. The hubby she said had learnt the hard way that just about this time, she becomes very irritable and finds every discussion a basis for confrontation. She said she felt the difference too. Continue reading The women who are irritable certain periods of every month
I was driving towards the anatomy building as an undergrad when I was flagged down by a friend that a colleague of ours had been struck dead by lightning. He was walking towards the university gate on a road Continue reading How to Prevent Being Struck By Lightning
The world health organization has joined a host of other scientists to raise the alarm that drinking hot beverages, tea, cocoa, coffee and the like, can increase your risk of developing throat cancer. Beverages consumed at temperatures higher than 65 degrees Celsius have been described as carcinogenic to human beings. Continue reading Drinking Beverages Hot Can Cause Throat Cancer
Do you remember any child whilst you were growing up who had problems keeping their bed dry? Bedwetting can be a traumatic experience for a child as well as the parents. Those days, unfortunately, tactics used by parents like shaming and threatening the child are counterproductive. The interesting thing is that bedwetting has a strong genetic component so it runs in the family. Most children who wet the bed are products of parents who had bedwetting problems as children too. Continue reading How to Deal with a Bed wetting Child
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women and the second leading cause of death by cancer only second to lung cancer. On the average, if you are female, you have a 12% – 13% risk of developing breast cancer in your lifetime. Continue reading Preventing Breast Cancer.
There is currently an epidemic of yellow fever in Angola, Uganda, and DRC. Sadly, the World Health Organization has just announced that it has almost exhausted its stock of Yellow fever vaccine and is now recommending that less than half the usual dose Continue reading The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Central Africa and the Scarcity of Vaccines
It looks like a scene from a horror movie but it is not. Albinos are being hunted for their body parts in most parts of East Africa. I am talking about 2016 not some million years ago. In countries like Tanzania, witch doctors pay as much as $75,000 for a complete set of albino genitals, ears, tongue and limbs according to the red cross. In neighboring Continue reading Albinos are being hunted to extinction in East Africa
There is currently an outbreak of the Chikungunya virus in Kenya’s northeastern Mandera county which borders Somalia and Ethiopia. Somalia has been at war for over two decades and has no viable structures in place so if this epidemic spills over there will be tremendous damage. Continue reading Chikungunya Virus Epidemic in Kenya