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Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed the deaths of up to 45 persons in an outbreak of yellow fever in the country which is currently active in states including Kwara, Kogi, Kano, Zamfara, Kebbi, Nasarawa and Niger.

Two Chinese-produced vaccines, a Bivalent Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccine (BOPV) and a Hepatitis “A” Vaccine (HAV), have received prequalification by the WHO. The move indicates that the WHO has given the vaccines its stamp of approval for the safety and efficacy, and UN procuring agencies may now source them.

Keto has been ranked last in the 2018 list of best diets by the US News and World Report, along with the relatively unknown Dukan diet.

Keto stresses eating a ton of protein and minimal carbs, putting the dieter into "ketosis," when the body breaks down both ingested and stored body fat into ketones, which it uses as energy. People on such diets often deal with fatigue and light-headedness as they adjust to a lack of carbohydrates.

Though the experts on the US News and World Report panel that created the list said eating that way isn't harmful short-term, they ranked the diets poorly on long-term weight loss success, ease of use and overall impact on health.

Women who undergo a hysterectomy are at greater risk for heart disease and other health issues -- even if they keep their ovaries, new research suggests.

"Hysterectomy is the second most common gynecologic surgery, and most are done for benign reasons because most physicians believe that this surgery has minimal long-term risks," said lead researcher Dr. Shannon Laughlin-Tommaso, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

"With the results of this study, we encourage people to consider nonsurgical alternative therapies for fibroids, endometriosis and prolapse, which are leading causes of hysterectomy," she said.

Cardiologists have raised new alarm concerning the increase of a certain kind of heart disease known as the hypertensive heart disease in hospitals across the federation.

An estimate of 5 in 8 brought-in patients who reported incidents of hypertension are said to be at risk of a late stage of cardiac shutdown.

A group of top cardiologists from major University Teaching Hospitals in the country, under the umbrella of the Heart Failure Technical Board (HFTB), expressed the worry at a recent media briefing held in Lagos, revealing that heart disease has become a major cause of death in the nation’s hospitals in recent times.

A new study has revealed that children who consume omega-3s, the fatty acids in fish get better sleep and possess a higher IQ.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania revealed that, kids who eat fish at least once a week scored 4.8 points higher on an IQ test than children who said they rarely ate the seafood.

The children also revealed that they had better sleep at night.

The findings they said are the first of its kind that reveals sleep as the link between fish and heightened intelligence, prompting researchers to suggest introducing kids to fish as young as 10 months old, so as to improve their overall cognition all through their lives.