People who are rhesus negative are missing a compound called antigen D in their blood. During pregnancy and especially during labor, small amounts of the baby’s blood can be passed to the mother via the placenta. If the baby is…

Scleroderma comes from the Greek words sclero which means hard, and derma, relating to the skin. Although it was first described in 1753, it was only in 1847 that it was recognised as a condition that affected the skin, and…

Heart disease is one the world’s greatest killers at 17.1 million lives a year, according to WHO statistics, and becomes more dangerous once people get past 45. Thirty minutes exercise a day is a good habit to develop for a…

A report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) late last month in New York revealed tuberculosis (TB) is still the world’s single largest infectious killer in the world and in 2017 it killed 1.6 million people and infected 10…