The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday advised patients with mild or moderate cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) against the use of antidepressant drug, fluvoxamine, and the gout drug colchicine. The organisation said in a statement that current indications did not justify using colchicine to treat non-severe illness, addding that fluvoxamine should not be used without clinical trials According to report by a WHO Guideline Development Group (GDG), the advice became necessary due to insufficient evidence of better results from the use of the drugs and their potential harm. panel of international experts in the British Medical Journal The report,…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
By Tel-Aviv University Disintegrating Virus Cell Destroy COVID Concept The injection causes type B white blood cells to be genetically engineered inside the patient’s body that would generate neutralizing antibodies against the HIV virus. The technology also has the potential to be developed into a cure for AIDS A new study from Tel Aviv University proposes a novel AIDS treatment that could be turned into a vaccine or a one-time treatment for HIV patients. The research explored modifying type B white blood cells in the patient’s body to release anti-HIV antibodies in response to the virus. Dr. Adi Barzel and…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Science Council of experts has called for the equitable expansion of genomics for global health. This is contained in a WHO Science Expert Council report released on Tuesday. The field of genomics uses methods from biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology to understand and use biological information in DNA and RNA, with benefits for medicine and public health—particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as agriculture, biological research, and more. The report called for expanded access to genetic technologies, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), by addressing shortfalls in funding, laboratory infrastructure, materials, and highly…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the first-ever report on the pipeline of the vaccines currently in development, to prevent infections caused by Antimicrobial-Resistant (AMR) bacterial pathogens. A statement issued by the organization on Tuesday said the analysis pointed to the need to accelerate trials for AMR related vaccines in late-stage development and maximise the use of existing vaccines. According to the report, the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance is of major growing public health concern. “Resistant bacterial infections alone are associated with nearly 4.95 million deaths per year, with 1.27 million deaths directly attributed to AMR. “But AMR…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has picked former Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima as vice presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections. Making the announcement in a 35 paragraph speech, shortly after he met with President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura on Sunday, stated that although taking religious and ethnic concerns into consideration is important, religion, ethnicity and region cannot always and fully determine our path. “May I say this to all of you, especially to those who will be disappointed in my selection based on religious considerations. I will not and cannot ignore the…
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group approved a €121 million loan to Senegal for implementation of an emergency agricultural programme that will benefit 850,000 small farmers, 35% of whom are women. “Senegal’s dependence on the outside world for basic commodities and foodstuffs is a real bottleneck and poses a threat to the country’s food sovereignty, which has been sharpened by the war in Ukraine,” said Mohamed Chérif, the Bank’s Country Manager for Senegal. “This operation is intended to mitigate exogenous financial, economic, social and climate shocks and to maintain the upward trend in cereal production seen in…
The Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN), Ebonyi Chapter, says it will withdraw its services in the state from July 13 as directed by its national body. Mr Felix Eze, Chairman of the association in Ebonyi disclosed this on Saturday in Abakaliki after its meeting on the action scheduled to last for two weeks. Eze said the withdrawal of service was necessitated by alleged federal government’s insensitivity to the plight of bakers across the country which had adversely affected their businesses. “The prices of bakery materials increase steadily as a bag of flour which hitherto cost N25,000…
Kaduna State COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus Programme (KD-CARES) has begun the distribution of agricultural inputs to 4,882 poor and vulnerable farmers across the state. The Programme Coordinator, Mr Badamasi Musa told newsmen in Kaduna on Saturday that the support was under Result Area 2 (RA 2) of the programme. Musa explained that the RA 2 was designed to increase food production, food security and safe functioning of food supply chains in the state, being implemented by the FADAMA programme under the Ministry of Agriculture. He said that the programme was designed by the Federal Government to alleviate the…
Emergency responders have rescued three persons from a Lexus Jeep that was swept away by heavy flood around Oyatoki area of Agege, Lagos State. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, the Zonal Coordinator, South-West, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Saturday in Lagos. Farinloye said that the incident involved two vehicles, a Lexus Jeep carrying three persons and a Toyota with three occupants. According to him, the six persons were reported to have been swept away when rainwater overflowed an uncompleted canal in the area. “The residents reportedly warned the people in the vehicles to…
Set to Reduce Carbon Emission Generated at post harvest activities of rice To complement the world climate change drive in reducing the carbon emission where countries including Nigeria are galvanizing for strategic involvement of relevant stakeholders, Silvex International, a Nigerian based Agribusiness firm in partnership with Developmental Association for Renewable Energy (DARE) and the British government under its LINKS Project funded the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCDO) have introduced climate sensitive parboiling and drying of rice paddy in Kano. The company has trained over two hundred (200) rural women on climate sensitive methodologies for parboiling and drying of rice paddy…