Doctors in India have successfully separated conjoined twin boys who were attached at the skull in a marathon surgical procedure that lasted more than 36 hours and involved 40 doctors.

The two-year-old twins, who suffered a rare condition occurring once in about 2.5 million births, underwent the operation at a government-run hospital in New Delhi on Wednesday.

According to a team of scientists in New York, the human brain is still very active after death, which means there's a chance you could actually hear your own death being announced by medics someday.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that 3.2 million birth defect-related disabilities and an estimated 276,000 newborn deaths occur every year. Mrs Olubunmi Lawal, the Founder, Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Care Foundation (SHCF), a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) said this in Abuja.

Africa will need about 11 million doctors, nurses, and teachers by 2030 to carter for millions of children who will be the result of a population boom.

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), a social and economic disaster that could propel millions to migrate is imminent if the professionals are not sought.

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, yesterday, reacted to the new policy of the Federal Government banning medical doctors in public health institutions from engaging in private practice during working hours, describing it as illegal. The association also asked the Federal Government to define what it meant by “working hours.

A shortage of nurses at U.S. hospitals hit West Virginia’s Charleston Area Medical Center at the worst possible time.

The non-profit healthcare system is one of the state’s largest employers and sits in the heart of economically depressed coal country. It faces a $40 million deficit this year as it struggles with fewer privately insured patients, cuts in government reimbursement and higher labor costs to attract a shrinking pool of nurses.