Nutrition experts have warned Nigerians against the practice of reusing vegetable oil, while cooking, noting that it has a serious negative health impact.

According to the experts, reusing vegetable oil – a common practice in homes and also among street food vendors – is contributing to the increasing incidence of cancer and other non-communicable diseases. The nutritionists stressed that the blackened oils reused to fry or cook food already contain free radicals that are not good for the body.

A medical expert has urged older men to take better care of their prostate health to prevent other health complications. The expert, a Professor of Surgery, Kehinde Tijani, noted that the poor state of prostate health is a major reason for the increasing incidence of urinary tract infections among older men.

Recall that it was recently reported that 75-year-old former president of the US, Bill Clinton was hospitalised at the University of California, Irvine Medical Centre, due to a urinary tract infection. According to reports, an aide to the former president confirmed that he had a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream but was on the mend.

Mothers exposed to high levels of cleaning products and disinfectants are at increased risk of having children with asthma, a new study has found. The team of researchers, led by the University of Bergen in Norway, said women who work as cleaners, nurses and cooks, could be at increased risk. 

The researchers who looked at more than 3,000 mothers and their children found that women who are exposed to high amounts of cleaning products and disinfectants are 71 per cent more likely to have a child with asthma.

Child health and nutrition experts have urged breastfeeding mothers to eat any food they want, noting that consuming okro and snails will not cause drooling in babies.

The experts said it has become necessary to discourage cultures prohibiting the consumption of snails and okro by breastfeeding mothers, stressing that there is no scientific evidence to back the claim that the nutritious foods make babies drool saliva or cause other health issues. 

A consultant physician and dermatologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Dr. Folakemi Cole-Adeife has cautioned against wearing second-hand underwear, noting that it can increase the risk of infectious diseases.

According to the dermatologist, wearing second-hand pants and bras can cause fungal infections or mite infestation, and lice. Dr. Adeife-Cole also said it can lead to vulval or vulvovaginal candidiasis, scabies in women, and tinea cruris in both males and females.

A new study has found that women who gave birth to preterm babies are more than twice as likely to develop high blood pressure within a decade of giving birth. As reported online by DailyMail, the study was led by Dr. Csaey Crump of Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York City.

In the study, 2.2 million Swedish women were tracked for almost 45 years. This allowed the researchers the opportunity to explore both the immediate and long-term risks of developing hypertension following birth.

In what appears to be a medical breakthrough, surgeons in the United States have successfully attached a kidney grown in a genetically altered pig to a human patient and found that it worked perfectly.  This scientific breakthrough scientists say may one day yield a vast supply of organs for severely ill patients. 

As reported by the New York Times, the 54-hour surgery was performed on a brain-dead patient at NYU Langone Health. However, the research has not yet been peer-reviewed nor published in a medical journal, New York Times reported.

A new study has suggested that the timing of menstrual changes could provide clues about a woman’s risk of developing heart disease. According to the study that is already published in the medical journal for women’s health, Menopause and reported by Eurekalert, the length of a woman’s menstrual cycle can be a sign of serious cardiovascular condition.

The research studied cycle length changes over the menopause transition and found that women whose cycle increased in length two years before their final menstrual period had better measures of vascular health than those who had stable cycle lengths during this transition.

A United Kingdom-based gynaecologist and robotic surgeon, Dr. Olumide Ofinran, discusses common vaginal infections and other common sexually transmitted diseases in this interview with ALEXANDER OKERE.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of global progress in tackling tuberculosis and for the first time in over a decade, TB deaths have increased, according to the World Health Organisation’s 2021 Global TB report. 

In 2020, more people died from TB, with far fewer people being diagnosed and treated or provided with TB preventive treatment compared with 2019, and overall spending on essential TB services falling. According to the UN agency, the first challenge is a disruption in access to TB services and a reduction in resources.