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Approximately 113 million people in 53 countries experienced high levels of food insecurity last year, according to a new joint UN and European Union (EU) report , which warns that these crises are primarily driven by conflict and climate-related disasters. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP) and EU “Global Report […]
20-year-old Bangladeshi woman gave birth to twins — 26 days after giving birth to her first child. Arifa Sultana gave birth to a boy in late February, according to Dr. Sheila Poddar, a gynecologist at Ad-Din hospital in Dhaka. After a normal delivery, the mother and baby were released from a different Dhaka hospital. Less […]
Winifred Bosa The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that nearly 630 million years of healthy life were lost in 2015 due to the diseases afflicting the population across its 47 Member States in Africa, now amounting to a loss of more than 2.4 trillion international dollars ($) from the region’s gross domestic product value annually. […]
Borno State Primary Health Care Agency (BSPHCA) has confirmed infection of 4,693 and death of 13 children by measles. Its Director of Disease Control, Babagana Abiso, told reporters yesterday in Maiduguri that efforts were ongoing to contain the spread of the airborne ailment to 25 council areas. He said: “Thirteen councils are most affected by […]
Fathers-to-be who smoke may increase the risk of congenital heart defects in their offspring, reveals a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). And for mothers-to-be, both smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke were detrimental, maintained the study. “Fathers-to-be should quit smoking.” said study […]
Johnnie Barto, MD, a 71-year-old former Pennsylvania pediatrician, was sentenced recently to at least 79 years in state prison for sexually assaulting 31 children. Most of the victims were patients, and some were members of his family, the Associated Press reports. Pennsylvania’s attorney general, Josh Shapiro, said that Barto committed most of the assaults in […]
As Nigeria joins the world to celebrate this year’s World TB Day on Sunday March 24, 2019, Development Communication calls on all Nigerians to protect their family members from the menace of the highly infectious disease. TB kills 18 Nigerians every hour and 4,500 people globally every day. The theme for this year’s World Tuberculosis […]
Children who are exposed to common pesticides, either while in the womb or in the first year of life, may be more likely to develop autism, a new study suggests. While the researchers stressed that it’s premature to say that pesticide exposure actually causes autism, they pointed out that theirs is not the first investigation […]
It is no longer a new thing that nursing profession remains the major/only profession within the health sector that suffered the effects of quackery within the health sector. It is visible to the visually impaired, audible to the deaf the active participation of Nigerian nurses either in the breeding of quacks or aiding of quackery […]
Tuberculosis, or TB, is not only the world’s top infectious killer, it is also the leading cause of deaths among people with HIV and a major cause of antimicrobial resistance-related deaths, the United Nations health agency said in UN report on World Tuberculosis Day. TB remains the world’s deadliest infectious killer, claiming nearly 4,500 lives […]