We all need to undertake lifestyle modifications to address health issues. A wide range of fitness exercises can help us meet our needed fitness levels so as to uplift our wellbeing and health to the optimum levels, hence prevent lifestyle diseases.

ALONG a village path in Bugembe, Jinja district, lies Veronica Nandego’s one-roomed brick-and-sand house. Although she does not remember her birth date, her facial features and cotton-white hair prominently state that she is in the league of 70 years plus.

13-year-old Juliet Kyomuhangi has reason to smile after living out of six years of immobility from a shrapnel hit in Kibale district. Now she can walk

‘We are eating ourselves into a diabetic epidemic’

Water Aid Uganda has asked MPs to form a forum on water and sanitationthat used to demand for more funding towards sanitation, water and hygiene in rural areas.

IN his fi rst year of life, Gerald Musisi was a bouncing little boy. As he started school, he dreamt of becoming a teacher. Later, his body started wasting away. Today, at the age of 22, he is confi ned to a wheelchair, waiting for the day when he will say goodbye to this earthly life.

Old age is not a disease. However, the way we live our lives before then, is a determining factor on whether or not we shall consider it a disease.

Healthcare services in Manafwa district are expected to improve after the district received an assortment of medical supplies worth about sh1.26b from an American charity.

It is good news for patients who have been flying abroad for special surgeries like hip surgery and knee implants as it can now be done here in the country.

A total of 320 women in Mbarara were on Saturday screened and tested for breast and cervical cancer at Mbarara referral hospital in western Uganda.