In Sub Saharan Africa, there is a growing burden of non-communicable diseases, which poses a big challenge to the weak health system in these resource-limited settings. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility ...

Introduction: the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) recommended that men should share responsibility and be actively involved in sexual and reproductive health. The level of male partner ...

Kenyan studies relating body composition (BC) and blood pressure (BP) have focused on adults. Insight into this relationship among children and adolescents provides evidence for reduction of adulthood cardiovascular ...

Background: Only 12% of Kenyan women use breast cancer (BC)screening programs. Early identification is critical for reducing the condition’s associated morbidity and mortality. Unfor- tunately, few studies have been ...

Objectives: To examine the great possibility that the indigenous black African man with prostate diseases requires a different diagnostic approach and strategies beyond the standard PSA reference levels generated in ...

Background: Many surgical conditions in newborns are only amenable to surgery, which in resource-limited settings is only feasible in some tertiary-level hospitals, hence the need for appropriate referral and safe newborn ...

This is a report of bilateral testicular torsion. The objective of the report is to highlight the serious implications of misdiagnosis of testicular torsion. Other than loss of the testis due to necrosis in unilateral ...

Background: Success in the management of neonatal surgical emergencies depends on prompt diagnosis, adequate resuscitation, good nursing care, safe anaesthesia and competent surgery. Considering that centres for paediatric ...

Background: Pain is the cardinal symptom common to diverse disease conditions and it is what drives many patients to seek treatment. It, therefore, commands a central position in health seeking behavior. In the , the main ...

Congenital sublingual cysts are usually rare. A Neonate presented in our facility with feeding difficulties caused by a large sublingual cyst. Excision of the cyst was done and post operative period was uneventful. In this ...