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Lassa feverThe Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti (FETHI), yesterday announced the recovery and subsequent discharge of a female lassa fever patient from the hospital. 

The Chief Medical Director, Dr Lawrence Ayodele who disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in Ido Ekiti said, the feat was achieved through the determination of staff of the tertiary health institution. 

A 19-year-old student of School of Nursing, owned by the institution, was diagnosed with the diseases about three weeks ago and has been receiving treatment at isolation centre of the hospital. 

Untitled 1 20 300x225Presently, in South America, there are as many as 1 million adults reported to have been infected by the Zika virus.

It is a disease which experts say is usually relatively mild and requires no specific treatment.

However, recent incidents were accompanied by the Brazilian Health Ministry’s latest announcement that the suspected and confirmed cases of babies with microcephaly linked to the Zika virus in Brazil had increased from over 3000 cases to 4,074.

Thursday, 04 February 2016 11:13

Cancer: Foundation Screens 11,500 Women In Kwara

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The LEAH charity foundation,a pet project of the wife of Kwara State governor, Mrs Omolewa Ahmed has between 2013 and now screen 11,500 women for breast and cervical cancer in the state. 

The screening exercise was carried out at the LEAH cancer centre in Ilorin, the state capital. Mrs. Ahmed disclosed this yesterday during a press conference to mark this year’s World Cancer Day. 

Represented by the Executive Director of LEAH Foundation, Alhaji Lanre Bello, Mrs Omolewa disclosed that out of the 11,500 women that were screened, 96 were discovered to have full blown cervical cancer while 200 have breast cancer. 

Sunday, 07 February 2016 10:18

FG To Make HPV Immunisation Routine Programme

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Prof Isaac Adewole1 e1448650928487 510x374 620x330The federal government is making effort to include Human Papilloma V‎irus (HPV) immunisation as part of the routine immunisation programme. 

The vaccine which is available in health service outlets in Nigeria in both private and public hospitals is expected to be given to girls for cervical cancer prevention. 

This was revealed by the minister of health, Prof Isaac Adewole during the commemoration of the World Cancer Day in Abuja and with the theme “We Can, I Can.

IDPs 300x200The Borno Primary Health Care Management Board (BPHCM) says no fewer than 190,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in 28 camps in the state had benefitted from its free medical outreach. The Executive Secretary of the Board, Dr Sule Mene,

disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Maiduguri. Mene said that 10,800 children aged zero to five were enrolled for management of varying degrees of malnutrition, while about 121,000 were given various immunisation antigen. 

He explained that the agency had inaugurated about 240 Integrated Primary Health Care Teams (IPHCT) that would ensure availability of the relevant services to meet the demands of IDPs in camps.

Sunday, 07 February 2016 17:22

Doctors to suspend 5 months old strike

Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola Governor of Osun stateThere are plans to end the five months old strike in Osun State following a statement from the Osun State House of Assembly. The Chairman of the Osun State Association of Medical and Dental Officers, Dr. Isiaka Adekunle,

made this known after a meeting with the state's lawmaker over their demands. According to the statement the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Olatubosun Oyintiloye, Adekunle raised the hope of resumption during the meeting of the lawmakers with the leadership of the striking doctors.

It was also reported that the Speaker, Najeem Salaam, appealed to the doctors to suspend the industrial action, saying the masses were at the receiving end of the crisis and noting that they are stakeholders in the state.

HIV AIDS 300x225Despite the decline in the HIV/AIDS new infection and deaths, a total of 58,000 babies are born annually with the AIDS virus in Nigeria and there are chances of only 50% survival for the babies who are in most cases not exposed to treatment. 

Similarly, there are 3.2 million people living with the virus and a total of 91,400 have been tested in 32 local governments which have been accessible to the patients. This was revealed yesterday by the under Secretary General and executive director of UNAIDS mission to Nigeria,

Mr Michel Sidibe when he paid a courtesy visit to the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Prof John Idoko at the agency’s headquaters in Abuja. 

University Professor reveals that Yorubas are immune to the Lassa virus which causes Lassa feverNews reports have revealed that a university lecturer has claimed that Yoruba people are immune to the Lassa virus which causes Lassa fever. Prof. Christian Happi, the researcher, who is also the Dean, College of Postgraduate Studies, Department of Biological Sciences, Redeemer’s University, Ede,
Osun State, revealed that the research was still ongoing and the reason for the immunity is yet to be discovered. Prof. Happi also added that the few cases of Lassa fever recorded among Yoruba people are “imported.” 
The National Mirror reports that Prof. Happi, who is also Director, World Funded African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, ACEGID, had also revealed that the Lassa fever virus had originated from Nigeria about 1,060 years ago.

Nigerians have ZikaAccording to the minister of health of the federation, the total number of Nigerian who have been infected with the much-feared Zika virus stands at 25% of the total population.

Given that Nigeria's population was 173.6million in 2013 according to the world bank, the exact number of infected persons, according to the minister, would be a mind-boggling 43million.

This disturbing information was made known when he was invited by the National assembly to defend the budget of the Federal Ministry of Health for the year 2016.

WALNUTSAmerican scientists carried out a number of lab tests on grouped mice suffering from prostate cancer. By feeding one group with walnuts, another with walnut oil,

and the last mice group with no walnut at all, the researchers were able to detect a drastic deceleration in the growth of the tumor and malignant cells in the rats fed with walnuts.

 The first group did not consume walnuts, the second group received walnuts, and the third one was fed with walnut oil. The experiment showed that the development of the tumor and malignant cells significantly slowed among the rodents in the second and the third groups. 

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