The Borno State government has confirmed the demise of 3 persons as a result of cholera disease outbreak in the state.
Commissioner of Health in the state, Dr Haruna Mshelia, made the disclosure during an interview with the press on Thursday in Maiduguri.
According to Dr Mshelia, so far about 693 persons have been diagnosed with the disease in villages around the Lake Chad area of the state.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC) on Tuesday said it has intercepted 33 containers of Tramadol which were being conveyed to a yet-to-be-ascertained location in the country. The Director-General of NAFDAC Prof Christiana Adeyeye who disclosed this in Abuja while speaking at the National Chemical Security Training Conference also hinted that 3 trucks laden with tramadol were seized at the Apapa Ports in Lagos.
Two types of blood pressure medications — alpha blockers and alpha 2 agonist — show increased variability in blood pressure measurements between doctor visits, which is associated with an increased risk of death, according to new research from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has added a so-called Disease X to its list of maladies that could potentially harm humanity and result to an epidemic of global proportions, despite the fact scientists are yet to discover it.
The unknown disease could be as detrimental as some diseases that spread terror across the world centuries ago, before modern medicine techniques appeared and fought diseases that were thought to be incurable.
WHO on its website said “Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.”
The Federal Government says treatment for Lassa fever remains free and urged members of the public to disregard news to the contrary.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said this in a statement on Sunday.
The NCDC boss disclosed this in a reaction to newspaper reports that the high cost of treating Lassa fever was responsible for the high mortality rate recorded so far in the country.
Higher levels of Vitamin D in the blood may be linked to a lower risk of developing certain cancers, a study in Japanese adults reported Thursday. “These findings support the hypothesis that Vitamin D has protective effects against cancers at many sites,” researchers reported in a study published in The BMJ medical journal.
