What is Paget’s Disease? Paget’s disease of the bone is a chronic bone disorder that causes bones to become enlarged and deformed. It is a disease that disrupts the replacement of old bone tissue with new bone tissue. The bone…
Neck pains can be anything from having slept in a bad position, to sprains or even serious injuries from accidents. A neck sprain refers to an overstretched or torn ligament in the neck and are commonly associated with a whiplash…
What Type of Arthritis Do You Have?Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints that can cause frustrating and severe joint pains. There are many different kinds of arthritis and related conditions. In America, for example, arthritis affects more than 50…
A friend’s recent Facebook post resonated deeply. “No matter how long it lives, the Greatest Lion will eventually die miserably. That’s the world! They may die young from injuries they sustained while defending their Pride. They may die old, enfeebled…
Imagine a health care system where decisions are made consultatively by the people providing care in consultation with patients and not by distant shareholders often solely focused on profit margins. This is the transformative promise of health care worker cooperatives.…
We had diagnosed septic arthritis in the child’s hip joint, requiring immediate surgery. Yet, the fear in her eyes was not from the illness, but the cost. As a small-scale farmer, the Sh100,000 surgery could force her to sell her…
Ever since I first read Nelson Mandela’s words, “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living,” they have served as a guiding…