How turning houses into ‘mosquito nets’ is slashing malaria cases
Researchers from KEMRI blocked mosquito entry using mesh on open eaves, doors,…
Dr Hellen Barsosio: The researcher turning a grandmother’s grief into a generation’s hope
Dr Barsosio grew up in the shadow of eight pregnancies her grandmother…
18-Hour Miracle: Inside Kenya’s historic surgery that built a new face
The surgical team performed the first total facial skeleton resection, reconstruction and rehabilitation…
Dr Kabugo Kamau: Menopause begins before birth, a reality medicine has long ignored
Menopause means 12 months without a period, punctuated by mood swings, brain…
Dr Angela Koech: One woman, one bacterium, and one question that changed everything
She used to spend her days in delivery rooms, catching babies. Now…
How a Ksh1,000 circumcision became a Ksh1.6 million surgery bill
Wafula took his son to the hospital to escape the dangers of…
Dr Supa Tunje: Why she refused to look away while Kenya’s children suffer in silence
Dr Supa Tunje has spent her entire career demanding an answer to the question:…
‘My daughter couldn’t stand, climb stairs, hold a mug’
A cough and numbness led to panic, paralysis and a polymyositis diagnosis, a rare…
‘Our baby weighed 800 grams’: How fathers are helping preterm babies survive
Men at the coast culturally never got involved in Kangaroo Mother Care,…
“Will I get to see my grandchildren?” A mother’s sickle cell journey and the power of early diagnosis
Sickle cell disease in western Kenya is frequently misdiagnosed as malaria or pneumonia, leading…
