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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Researchers at Makerere University have embarked on a study to establish how advertising of fizzy drinks and snacks targeting children, can be regulated to safeguard children against the likely danger in these processed foods.  Dr Gloria Seruwagi, a Makerere University Behavioural Scientist who is the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Researchers at the University of Oxford have reported that the risk of the rare blood clotting known as cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) following COVID-19 infection is around 100 times greater than normal, several times higher than it is after vaccination or following influenza. The study …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Researchers from Makerere University School of Public Health want the government to include sex workers on the list of people who will get the COVID-19 vaccine. The researchers made their plea during the release of study findings on how communities at the border posts of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Key populations operating at borders points to Uganda say that they can’t adhere to the Ministry of Health’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of maintaining a physical distance as protection against COVID-19. According to the World Health Organization, in the wake of COVID-19 everyone is encouraged …

Mukono, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   Researchers at the National Forestry Resources Research Institute-NaFRRI under the National Agricultural Research Organization-NARO have improved the micro garden system to support farming in urban areas. The researchers have now designed a vertical garden made out of wood, forming a rectangle with a number …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Researchers are calling for open access to hydroxyurea, the only effective drug proven to reduce the frequency of painful episodes among persons with sickle cell disease. They say that the drug should be given to everyone who battles the painful hereditary blood disorder without discrimination.  …

Jerusalem, Israel | XINHUA | Israeli researchers have found that low levels of vitamin D in the blood is associated with an increased risk of contracting coronavirus, Leumit Health Services and Bar Ilan University (BIU) in central Israel said on Sunday. In a comprehensive study, published in the journal FEBS, …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Results of a study released on Tuesday show that if common anti allergy drug dexamethasone is given in low doses to patients battling serious COVID- 9, a third of them can be saved from death. Conducted by researchers at Oxford university and part of a …

Washington, United States | AFP |  Can your Fitbit or Apple Watch detect a coronavirus infection before the onset of symptoms? Researchers are increasingly looking at these devices and other such wearables as a possible early warning system for the deadly virus. Last month, scientists at the West Virginia University Rockefeller …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The closest date that a COVID-19 vaccine can be ready is June 2021 according to scientists and researchers.   Over 100 vaccines are being developed globally in laboratories in the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe and even China. 76 of these are being followed by …