New results from a nationwide study on factors that affect asthma in inner-city children show that cockroach allergen appears to worsen asthma symptoms more than either dust mite or pet allergens. This research, funded by the National Institute of Environmental

Doctors treating pregnant women with threatened preterm birth sometimes sew the cervix closed, a procedure known as cerclage. Despite this traditional intervention, many women still lose the pregnancy. While the causes of preterm labor are not well understood, researchers at

Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered a genetic marker that may pave the way for a fast, inexpensive blood test to predict one type of deadly stroke that strikes 30,000 people in the United States annually.

The harm caused by alcohol consumption among college students may exceed previous estimates of the problem. Researchers report that unintentional fatal injuries related to alcohol increased from about 1,500 in 1998 to more than 1,700 in 2001 among U.S. college

The Department of State for Local Government and Lands (DoSGL) in collaboration with the National Aids Secretariat (NAS) recently ended a four-day sensitisation campaign on HIV/AIDS at the Senegambia Beach Hotel. The campaign, which aimed at initiating positive behaviour changes,

SAVE the Children Uganda (SciU) has launched an emergency education programme for Northern Uganda benefit 10,000 children over the next five years.

One Sarjo Jarju of Makumbaya Village, was last week Tuesday 15th March 2005 sentenced to a fine of D1million or in default to serve ten years imprisonment by Magistrate Buba Jawo of the Brikama Magistrate Court.