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Causes of breathing difficult in children

  The common cause of breathing difficulty in children is respiratory infections like pneumonia, whooping cough, inflammation of the trachea and larynges (a structure that contains the vocal cords). Flu can also cause breathing difficulty. When a viral infection spreads to the lungs, it causes bronchitis (inflamation of the main air passages to the lungs). […]

40 health benefits of marijuana

  Although Europeans countries have continued to decree marijuana as not accepted medical drug, the crop has several benefits which our reporter Walakira Nyanzi outlines for you today. Since medicinal marijuana was legalised in California, the doctors there confirm that they have been able to treat over 300,000 cases of migraines that conventional medicines could […]

How AIDs cause infertility in women

  AIDS doesn’t only slim people; it may also cause infertility in some women. Hyperprolactinemia, if its prolactin levels are high and the woman is not pregnant or breastfeeding, it may affect ovulation and fertility thus causing infertility. Another cause of infertility in women is poor eggs quality. The eggs that develop genetic abnormalities or […]

Uganda replaces thermometers and blood pressure measuring devices that contain mercury with digital thermometers

  The Republic of Uganda has started replacing thermometers and blood pressure measuring devices that contain mercury with digital thermometers. The officer in-charge of Clinical Services at Uganda’s Ministry of Health, Dr. Jacinto Amandua says the development follows the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) launch of an initiative seeking to phase out all thermometers and blood […]

Causes of infertility in women and men

  Infertility, according to medical dictionaries refers to an inability to conceive after having regular unprotected sex. Infertility can also refer to the biological inability of an individual to contribute to conception, or to a female who cannot carry a pregnancy to full term. In many countries such as America and England, infertility refers to […]

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