Health

In what may be the largest award so far in a lawsuit tying ovarian cancer to talcum powder, a Los Angeles jury on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $417 million in damages to a medical receptionist who developed ovarian cancer after using the company’s trademark Johnson’s Baby Powder on her perineum for decades.

The 10-year-old rape victim who was denied permission for an abortion by the Indian Supreme Court last month has given birth to a baby girl. The girl is not aware that she has given birth as she was told during the pregnancy that her bulge was because she had a big stone in her stomach.

Strange Disease Strike Kogi Village, Kill 5A strange disease, whose symptoms include diarrhea, blood-stained vomiting and the high fever has killed 50 people at Okunran, Okoloke and Isanlu-Esa villages in Yagba West Local Government of Kogi.

Since the onset of the Lassa fever outbreak in December 2016 a total of 194 deaths from 906 reported cases have been recorded according to the Federal Ministry of Health through the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Dr Joshua Obasanya, Director, Prevention and Programmes Coordination Department, NCDC, made the disclosure in a statement in Abuja on Friday.

A mother in Oregon is suing Portland Adventist Medical Center for $8.6 million after she accidentally smothered her four-day-old baby in a hospital bed.

A recent study has revealed that marijuana smokers have triple the death risk from high blood pressure (BP).