Health

The 4-year-old Cote d’Ivoire boy couldn’t walk, speak or feed himself. He was so unlike most other kids that his grandparents hesitated to accept him. The slightly older Kenyan boy was so restless that his primary-school teachers beat him, until they discovered he was a star pupil.

The two children reveal different faces of autism and how society sometimes reacts to the condition.

Videos of the boys appear in “Autism: Breaking the Silence,” a special edition of VOA’s weekly Straight Talk Africa TV program. It was recorded Wednesday before a small studio audience of people who live with the condition or deal with it professionally.

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) will on Thursday begin work with stakeholders to check the high prevalence of HIV among key populations, including homosexuals.

The NACA Programme Officer, Favour Iyamu, made this pledge at an interactive media meeting organised by the International Centre for Advocacy on Right to Health in Abuja on Thursday.

A new study has warned that Britain's new generation of street lights risk severe increase in the rate of breast and prostate cancer in people.

Scientists have advised officials to consider limiting the roll-out of LED (light-emitting diode) lights after an investigation indicated a “strong link” between the technology and the deadly disease.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) generated more than N35.72 billion from passports applications in 2017. The NBS said this in a statistics on Immigration for 2017 posted on its website. According to the report, the figure is less than the N36.17 billion generated from passports application as local revenue in 2016.

A daily bite of dark chocolate is not only good for one's health but boosts brain power too, research revealed today.

Results from two studies show that consuming dark chocolate that has a high concentration of cacao has positive effects on stress, mood, memory and fighting off diseases.

The findings were presented at the Experimental Biology annual meeting in San Diego.

A Pharmacist, Dr Chukwuma Agubata, revealed that taking Irvingia Fat from nuts of Irvingia Gabonensis Var Excelsa, known as “Ogbono’’ soup has assisted in improving the efficacy of anti-malarial drugs.

Agubata, a researcher and lecturer in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, made the assertion while speaking with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos.

He said eating Ogbono soup while administering Artemether, an Anti-Malaria drug would improve the efficacy of the drug.

The researcher added that Ogbono would assist the drug to pass through all the barriers to get to its destination in the body and start working properly.