The World Health Organization (WHO), on December 23, 2023, raised the alarm on the global increase in Dengue infections, where it said more than five million infections and 5,000 deaths from the disease worldwide were recorded in 2023. The UN agency described it as a potentially high public health threat.
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
ASHENEWS reports that the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and the France chapter of the Transparency International, (TI-France) have made joint call on the Nigeria and French governments, to uphold asset recovery laws ahead of the return of the $150 million looted by former Nigerian head of state, Sani Abacha.
If your immune system or drugs can’t stop a viral infection, why not pit a virus against itself? That’s the provocative idea several labs are pursuing. They are studying whether deliberately introducing engineered viruses into people infected with their natural relatives can “drive” a foreign gene into those viruses that ultimately wipe out an infection.
Several scientific studies indicate that there’s higher risk of breast cancer in drinkers. In 1988, investigators experimented all these by doing “meta- analysis” of all the pertinent studies on alcohol and breast cancer, and they found compelling evidence of dose- response relationship between breast cancer odds and alcohol.
New research has revealed that the GDF15 hormone is responsible for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. The discovery could lead to better treatment of “underdiagnosed and undertreated” forms of severe pregnancy sickness, DW has reported.
ASHENEWS reports that Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, on Wednesday, presented N340.6 billion budget for the 2024 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly., with health, agriculture allocated ₦51.1 billion and ₦13.5 billion, respectively.
A Professor of Veterinary Parasitology and Ethnoveterinary Medicine at the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Bamidele Osho has emphasized the multifaceted benefits of the phytochemicals that are found in Nigerian pepper soup ingredients.
The Nigerian military has regretted the miscalculated bombardment of civilians in an airstrike on Ligarma village in Kaduna state, describing it as “needless and unwanted.”
The bacteria that causes typhoid fever is becoming increasingly resistant to common antibiotics used to treat the disease, with these resistant strains spreading to hundreds of countries in the past three decades, new analysis shows.
Taking key measures to reduce the power consumption of cooling equipment would cut at least 60 per cent off predicted 2050 sectoral emissions, provide universal access to life-saving cooling, take the pressure off energy grids and save trillions of dollars by 2050, according to a new report published during the COP28 climate talks in Dubai.