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The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Wednesday, released a report stating that an extensive evaluation of coffee’s cancer-causing risk, which resulted in a reclassification, did not prove the beverage’s safety.
The report released in Berlin noted that the overall coffee drinking was evaluated as unclassifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans.
In a move meant to break the stalemate between the striking Nurses and the Management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital LUTH, the Federal Ministry of Labour & Reproductivity Lagos State Office has moved in and intervened. A memo sent to Nursingworld dated 13th June and addressed to the CMD LUTH stated:
The natural molecule, n-acetylcysteine (NAC), with strong antioxidant effects, shows potential benefit as part of the management for patients with Parkinson's disease, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Combining clinical evaluations of a patient's mental and physical abilities with brain imaging studies that tracked the levels of dopamine, the lack of which is thought to cause Parkinson's, doctors from the Departments of Integrative Medicine, Neurology, and Radiology, at Thomas Jefferson University showed that patients receiving NAC improved on both measures.
Botulism can be caused by foods that were canned or preserved at home. Maybe you’ve had fruits or vegetables that someone picked from the garden in the summer and jarred so they could be eaten during the winter months. These foods need to be cooked at very high temperatures to kill the germs.
Although person to person transmission of botulism does not occur. Botulism is a serious kind of food poisoning, it may sound strange, but you can be poisoned especially by food that was not cooked or preserved properly.
The family planning blueprint aspires to increase family planning use from 15 to 36 percent nationally by 2018. Despite the widely acclaimed benefits of family planning, the Lagos state family planning structure has over the years been marred with some challenges. ODIRI UCHENUNU writes.
There is no doubt that family planning and reproductive health services save lives. This is so because it allows women to decide the timing and spacing of their children and in return, it lowers maternal mortality, increases the chances of child survival and saves government funds.
The Borno chapter of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) said its members would not participate in the nationwide strike due to start on Monday, June 20.
The state acting President of the Association, Dr Muhammad Abdullahi, made the state chapter’s position known in a statement issued in Maiduguri on Monday.
he government of United State has alerted Nigerians on the dangers of the “S” gene, saying that Sickle cell disease affects millions of Nigerians, as well as an estimated 100,000 Americans.
Speaking as part of activities to mark the World Sickle Cell Day in Abuja, Ambassador James Entwistle stated that as a result of its large population and location, Nigeria has the largest population of people anywhere with the disorder.
The Federal Government has ordered immediate sack of striking resident doctors in the country. The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, in a circular signed by Amina Shamaki, the permanent secretary of the ministry, directed Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) and medical directors (MDs) of FG tertiary health institutions to fill the vacancies created by resident doctors who have “abandoned” their programme. Resident doctors in government hospitals had declared indefinite strike on Monday over issue bordering on their entitlements.
Officials of the Radiographers Registration Board of Nigeria have blamed the activities of unskilled radiographers for the increasing cases of cancer and infertility problems in the country. 
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has agreed to suspend its strike. The NARD reached the decision on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, after a meeting with other health officials.
The strike will be suspended till the association holds another meeting on July 14.
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Experts have said maternal mortality rate is on a steep increase in the country largely due to poor funding,ignorance, and underutilization of the 13 essential life-saving commodities for women and children recommended by the United Nations.
Speaking on the side-lines of a stakeholders meeting in Abuja yesterday, the national coordinator, Civil Society for Family Planning (CSFP), Mr Adeleye Adewale, said the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) report of 2013 puts maternal mortality rate at 576 deaths per 1,000 live births, adding that the new report which is likely to be out soon, may even have a larger figure.
The verdict is out: Adults and children with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) who start antiretroviral therapy (ART) as early as possible reduce their risk of developing serious HIV-related infections. The new findings were published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases on June 15, 2016.
Congolese Health Minister Felix Kabange on Tuesday said the World Health Organisation (WHO) has sent over 11 million doses of yellow fever vaccines to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).
Kabange made the statement while speaking with newsmen in Kinshasa during a meeting to assess the situation of yellow fever outbreak in the country.
The minister of health, Prof Isaac Adewole has given his first assignment and litmus test to the director-general of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Dr Abdusalami Nasidi on the reported case of nutritional emergency in Borno State, where it has been estimated that eight children might die daily as a result of malnutrition.
The minister who gave the charge on Monday, at the conference room of the Centre during the opening ceremony and inaugural meeting of the governing board of the ECOWAS Regional Centre for Disease Control (RCDC), said NCDC needs to as a matter of urgency, dispatch a rapid emergency team to Borno state.
