Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Plans are underway to incorporate plant propagation into the syllabus of students studying traditional and herbal medicine at Gulu University’s Department of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Studies-PharmBiotec. The department of PharmBiotec was introduced in 2017 to empower herbalists, traditional knowledge holders, and traditional healers with …
Read More »Covilyce1: Dr Lamwaka suffers setback in bid to get COVID treatment
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. Alice Veronica Lamwaka, the lead researcher and inventor of the Covilyce1 herbal concoction for treating coronavirus diseases, has lost essential research materials in a bitter land row. The affected research materials include African bamboo among other natural weeds, trees, and plants. It was …
Read More »COVID-19: Gulu University ready for Covilyce-1 trials
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu University has said that they are ready to conduct clinical trials for Covilyce-1, a herbal medicine. A clinical trial is a stage where experiments are conducted to obtain sufficient evidence that a drug can be considered effective as a medical treatment. Three weeks ago, …
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