Dried placenta may help men regain erections faster after prostate surgery – Study
By Sola Ogundipe For men undergoing surgery for prostate cancer, removing the tumour may solve the immediate threat, but it can leave behind another deeply personal problem: erectile dysfunction. Researchers are exploring an unusual way to help sexual function return. The approach, according to a publication in New Scientist, involves placing thin sheets of dehydrated […]
Heels-To-Crotch Pose
Persons with the longest lives in the world are the Georgians of the Caucasus mountains in Southern Russia, the Hunzas of Kashmir and the Vilcabamba Indians of Ecuador.
Brain-dead pregnant woman delivers healthy twins 123 days after
NINE weeks into her pregnancy, Frankielen da Silva Zampoli Padilha, 21, died from a stroke, after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage. The brain-dead pregnant woman was kept alive on a ventilator for 123 days—the longest time ever—delivered healthy set of twins by emergency Caesarean Section before her ventilator was switched off.
New antibiotics cannot combat growing threat of antimicrobial resistance – WHO
Few new antibiotics currently in the pipeline cannot combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report has said.
Madagascar health minister separates siamese twins
In most countries health ministers are seen as bureaucrats more interested in paperwork than medical miracles.
Communicable diseases, others take deadly toll on Nigerians — STUDY
A new Annual Global Burden of Disease, GBD, and study has shown that more Nigerians are dying of communicable diseases including malaria, diarrhoea, lower respiratory diseases and HIV among others.
