Malaria Cases Gets Higher In Nigeria, Congo

A report released Wednesday in Geneva says Nigeria, Rwanda, and Democratic Republic of Congo DRC have seen the largest increase in malaria cases, jeopardizing the gains recorded since 2000.

Pollution Kills More People Than Anything Else

The most comprehensive report to date on the health effects of environmental pollution shows that filthy air, contaminated water and other polluted parts of our environment kill more people worldwide each year than almost everything else combined – smoking, hunger, natural disasters, war, murder, AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

The Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammadu Sanus II has blamed the nation's economic woes on what he termed briefcase billionaires and illiteracy. Sanusi made this known on Thursday while making a presentation at the end of a three-day Northern Regional Conference on Security, Justice and Development: Effective implementation of intervention measures,’ organized by Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action.

Research has revealed that angry people aged between 20 and 40 were one-and-a-half times more likely to be dead 35 years later than those who were happier.

Researchers from Iowa State University, United States (U.S.)believe this is as a result of a number of factors relating stress to physiological damage. The frequent release of adrenaline during periods of distress causes damage to the Deoxy ribo-Nucleic Acid (DNA)/genetic material, which could lead to life-threatening illnesses such as multiple sclerosis.

The Nigerian Orthopedic Association (NOA) during its 40th annual general meeting and scientific conference in Asaba, Delta State, made a special appeal to the Federal Government
to prioritize funding for the treatment of spine diseases in the country, which is in a deteriorating state.

The guest speaker Professor Wale Sulaiman, who is an experienced spine surgeon based in the United States, stated that, so many Nigerians are presently suffering from numerous spinal cord diseases and that has constituted a public health concern particularly owing to the country’s growing aging population.

Until now several medicinal plants have been found useful in preventing bone loss. Topmost on the list is Chenopodium ambrosioides that experts recently considered useful in bone regeneration, dressing of wounds, and fracture healing.

In a new study, researchers assessing the effect of Chenopodium ambrosioides in animals, indicate that its water extract can help to promote new bone formation, and thus fracture healing.

Bone loss is a silent condition that may not pose any symptoms or could occur slowly over the years. Many women have no idea that they have suffered bone loss until the day they trip, fall, and fracture a bone.