Keeping an eye on your child’s eyes
Heads turned up towards the sky, there is laughter as pink, orange, blue, green and yellow balloons bob up and float away. It is a sight for sore eyes at a ‘strange’ location where there is not only anguish and sorrow but also hope and healing.The balloons attract attention and a knot of parents and [...]
That rare velvety marvel
What a pleasant surprise it was to see a mound of the velvety marvel, gal siyambala at a makeshift stall by the roadside a few days ago. And no small wonder, so many were stopping by to buy some of this rare fruit that we see only just once every year usually between August and [...]
Burnout – when your job stresses you out
Several young men dressed in prison clothes their legs chained to each other shuffled down the corridor. This was not a scene from a real prison but a famous psychological experiment done at Stanford University, a quarter century ago. Psychologist Phillip Zimbardo was testing the effects of perceived power when ordinary persons are cast into [...]
Don’t let diabetes strike you during pregnancy
As young women tie the knot and step into wedded bliss, with the hope of experiencing the joy of motherhood, most are not armed with a vital fact. A fact which they need to be made aware of when they are girls – that it is important to maintain a healthy lifestyle which includes eating [...]
Malaria treatment now a breath away
How sweet are the words, “ Malaria count as at September 26, 2017 is 39”, especially to a Parasitologist whose professional life has been dedicated to the study of malaria and teaching young doctors-to-be about this scourge of the tropics. This statement appeared in the September issue of the SLMA News and continued with the [...]
The flower bud that is Clove
We all use cloves in our cooking and cloves are usually a ‘must have’ in our spice rack. But did you ever stop to wonder, what a clove really is? The cloves we use are actually fully grown flower buds picked before they open and then dried. Interestingly, clove flowers are small and crimson with [...]