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06 Dec '25
KAMPALA — Mulago National Referral Hospital has achieved a major milestone after doctors successfully carried out the first-ever laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, a keyhole surgery used to remove the prostate gland in a patient with prostate cancer.The surgery was performed
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01 Dec '25
Four people have been arrested in South Korea for allegedly hacking over 120,000 video cameras in homes and businesses and using the footage to make sexually exploitative materials for an overseas website.Police announced the arrests on Sunday, saying the accused exploited
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16 Nov '25
They’ve been promising eternal youth since the first snake-oil salesman bottled spring water. Now a Chinese biotech startup says it might actually have the chemistry right. Lonvi Biosciences claims its new pill could stretch human life to 150 years.The Shenzhen-based company,
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16 Nov '25
A Science, Technology and Innovation Roadmap for Agriculture, being developed by the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, is expected to be completed by end-September 2026.New roadmap to
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11 Nov '25
Rot In Health Ministry: Parliament Exposes 18yr Scandal In Donor-Funded ProjectsThe Ministry of Health has come under renewed fire in Parliament over a string of stalled, donor-funded projects some delayed for nearly two decades raising fears that the newly proposed cancer centres in Arua
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09 Nov '25
A grandfather suffered fatal burns in a hotel shower where the water was found to be as hot as 135F, effectively 'boiling him alive'.Terril Johnson, 72, of Los Angeles, was staying at the Fairfield By Marriott hotel in San Jose, California on May 22 with family ahead of his gran
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05 Nov '25
The 2036 development strategy of Russia’s Rostec state corporation assumes that the country will remain the world’s second-largest arms exporter, Executive Director Oleg Yevtushenko said."This year, Rostec approved its new development strategy through 2036. The difficult sit
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27 Sep '25
Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, has welcomed a landmark global deal that will dramatically slash the cost of the HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir, making it affordable for millions in low- and middle-income countries.The announcement was made on W
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16 Sep '25
The Parliamentary Committee on the National Economy has approved a government request to borrow Shs772 billion to address long-standing water supply challenges in four Ugandan districts.The funds will finance the Strategic Town Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Kayunga, Mayuge, Kamuli
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14 Aug '25
Singer Catherine Kusasira’s bodyguard, Lilly Semambo, spent last night in the coolers of Jinja Road Police Station after Full Figure opened a file against him.On Tuesday, the two (Full Figure and Lilly) got into a heated verbal argument during their vis