Health

HEALTH chiefs have issued a cancer warning over eating chips and other fried food amid revelations they contain a harmful chemical that is also found in tobacco smoke.

WITH each week, we wish ourselves good tidings. Some of us usually pledge to desist from doing certain things and at the same time pray for grace to be able to start new and wonderful things in the coming week.

WORRIED by the growing need to create proper safety awareness among children, health and safety organisation, Combined Training Solutions, has moved to introduce a Life Savers Club to educate children on first aid. Speaking in Lagos at a press conference to unveil the plan, the Chief Executive Officer of the organisation, Funmi Adegbola, stressed that…

TO ensure that consumers of regulated products are supplied with quality and safe products, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has called for effective regulation and collaboration in order to move the sector forward. NAFDAC Director General, Dr Paul Orhii, who made the call at the second NAFDAC Regulatory Forum…

The former Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, Prof. Akin Osibogun, a Consultant Public Health Physician and Professor of Community Health at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos (CMUL), in this interview, avers that Nigeria’s healthcare system requires urgent reforms by the government. If we must continue with…

Natural Treatments For Depression There are many natural remedies that have been found to be very helpful in the treatment of depression.

A new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that death rates among people over 65 are higher in zip codes with more fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) than in those with lower levels of PM2.5. It is the first study to examine the effect of soot particles in the…

*Stopped lung tumour cells from developing resistance to chemotherapy in mice LUNG cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, responsible for some 1.59 million deaths a year. That figure is due, in part, to the fact that the cancer often returns after what, at first, seems to be successful treatment. And the recurring…

*Dead arm ‘brought back to life’ in lab could allow amputees to grow replacement THE first steps toward developing “bioartificial” replacement limbs that are suitable for transplantation have reportedly been taken by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, United States (US), who write about their work with an animal model in the journal…

CUTTING calories through dietary restriction has been shown to lower cholesterol, improve insulin sensitivity, and even prolong life in mammals. Now, new research publishing on May 28th in Cell Reports shows that, at least in mice, low protein, high carbohydrate diets can provide benefits similar to those obtained with calorie restriction. “We’ve shown that when…

NEWER birth control pills raise the risk of a blood clot by as much as or more than older formulations, researchers report — but the risk is still very low. The study found that women taking some of the newer formulations had about four times the risk of a blood clot, called venous thromboembolism or…

Women who undergo mammography screening reduce their risk of dying from breast cancer by 40 percent, an international study published in the United States showed. Researchers reported that women aged 50 to 69 who received screening were 40 percent less likely to succumb to the decrease compared to women who were not screened. Simply inviting…