Reps seek increased nutrition budget as malnutrition costs Nigeria $2.5bn yearly
*32% of under-5s stunted; 58% of women anaemic *CS-SUNN pushes stronger legislative action, sustainable nutrition financing By Chioma Obinna The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Nutrition and Food Security, Hon. Chike Okafor, on Thursday raised fresh alarm over the economic and human cost of malnutrition, revealing that Nigeria loses about $2.5 billion annually to […]
Researchers develop artificial heart nearly as good as real
An artificial heart which closely imitates the real thing “in form and function” has been developed by Swiss researchers.
Parents of 10-months-old baby Charlie Gard sentenced to death to decide how he dies
Parents of a 10 months old baby sentenced to death by a European Human Rights Court have decided on how their baby, Charlie Gard, will die.
You can lose that baby if you don’t breastfeed him for six months
I delivered my baby in hospital under the supervision of health workers. Nobody told me about inverted nipples; all I was told was to clean my nipples
Nine lifestyle changes can reduce dementia risk, study says
These risk factors – which are described as potentially modifiable – add up to 35%. The other 65% of dementia risk is thought to be potentially non-modifiable.
How to cut risk of early menopause
EATING tofu, soy and other foods high in vegetable protein cuts the risk of an early menopause by up to nearly 60 per cent, a study found.
