Let’s talk about childbirth
But while more midwifery research is required, there are small things can be done to make childbirth easier for women. Childbirth need not be undignified.
Kenyan women need more C-sections
The people failed most by the lack of C-sections are babies. In Kenya about 13,600 babies die every year as a result of birth trauma and birth asphyxia - lives that would be saved
Debunking malaria myths
Myths about diseases spread like wildfire. Malaria is a case in point. The Conversation Africa’s Health and Medicine Editor Joy Wanja Muraya asked me to help sort out fact from f
The things children swallow ….
With small batteries, many may think, it’s only small and will pass through the gut and will not do much harm but batteries are extremely dangerous when swallowed by little child
Little girls with grown-up worries
If your typical Barbie had real life proportions, she would be 5 feet 9 inches, a bust of 36 inches and an 18 inch waist. That shape is not only improbable but unhealthy and a real
When TV is bad for you
Researchers compared the stress response among those who were present at the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013 to that of those who were exposed to the trauma only through the media.
Body image issues: chicken feed and big bottoms
An exaggerated hour-glass shape was what I wanted. Watching my mum and aunties, I knew it was highly unlikely I would get those hips and bottoms but hope is, you know, just hope...
Depression in women – part 2
In most of Africa, when women bring their babies for vaccination, they have to sit through talks by nurses at the clinics on the value of immunizations, good nutrition and family p
Depression in women: the impact of childbirth.
Feeling depressed while holding your ‘bundle of joy’ seems at odds with itself. But it is the reality of many women.
Genius malaria parasites
It is amazing that though we are reaching out into the universe to explore outer worlds – we still have not worked out how immunity to malaria is accomplished in adults. The scor