Drink plenty of fluids: These can help your body flush out any viruses or infections.
Blow your nose often: It’s important to blow your nose regularly when you have a cold rather than

Health Reporter
Patients admitted to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals’ Ward D4 and their relatives had a scare of their lives yesterday after an explosion that resulted in smoke filling the ward during the afternoon visiting

Cathrine Biswick Herald Reporter
ONE of the country’s major referral hospitals, Parirenyatwa Hospital, requires US$84 000 to add more beds at its paediatric intensive care unit, an official said last week.

Paidamoyo Chipunza Health Reporter
EXCLUSIVE breastfeeding is still a challenge among Zimbabwean women resulting in a significant number of malnourished and stunted growth of children, a nutrition expert has said.

• Get vaccinated against flu

This vaccine — which was approved by FDA in 2009 — was developed because the immune system typically becomes weaker with age, leaving people at increased risk of seasonal flu-related complications which may lead to hos­pitalisation and death.

• Wash your hands often with soap or warm water.

Teach children to do the same. Both colds and flu can be passed through coughing, sneezing, and contaminated surfaces, including the hands.

• Limit exposure to infected people. Keep infants away from crowds for the first few months of life. This is especially important for premature babies who may have underlying abnor­malities such as lung or heart disease.

• Keep stress in check

• Practice health habits

• Eat right and sleep right

• Exercise, it can help the immune sys­tem better fight off the germs that cause illness.

Source: Food and Drug Administration/Consumer Health Information  :www.webmed.com

Herald Reporter
A Harare woman is appealing for US$4 000 to take her two children who suffer from xeroderma pigmentosa to undergo operations in South Africa.

Health Reporter
GOVERNMENT is still consulting on tariffs to be used across all medical disciplines, Deputy Minister of Health and Child Welfare Dr Douglas Mombeshora has said.

Paidamoyo Chipunza Health Reporter
GOVERNMENT is still consulting on tariffs to be used across all medical disciplines, deputy Minister of Health and Child Welfare Dr Douglas Mombeshora has said. Initially, Government planned to impose a tariff in two weeks after the last meeting of the Joint Advisory Council which oversees the regulation of medical aid societies and medical

Herald Reporter
UNAIDS and the International Labour Organisation will launch a new global initiative to provide five million working women and men with voluntary and confidential HIV counselling and testing at the

Herald Reporter
The Health Professions Authority Zimbabwe has granted a cancer treatment licence to Rock Foundation Medical Centre Hospital, becoming only the third institution in Zimbabwe to offer such

Health Reporter
Murambinda Mission Hospital has successfully switched about 16 000 people living with HIV and Aids from the old anti-retroviral drugs to the new regimen, a senior health official has said.