Health

American business magnate Bill Gates, has always been spookily prophetic when it comes to the future of tech. He predicted social media, smart-watches, instant online payments and personal assistants decades before they reached peoples screens and took over many lives.

Now it seems the Microsoft CEO has a grave warning for all concerning healthcare.

Speaking at a discussion about epidemics hosted by the Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Journal of Medicine on Friday, Gates considered that the next deadly disease that may cause a global pandemic is coming, and that the world is not prepared to face it.

Since the world’s first successful organ transplant in 1954 — a kidney — the discipline has advanced to the point where a wounded soldier could have his penis and scrotum replaced in a groundbreaking operation last month.

A Frenchman recently became the first person to receive a second face transplant after the first failed, and another made history by regrowing skin lost over 95 percent of his body, thanks to a graft from his twin brother.

Transplants are no longer limited to the vital organs: heart, liver, or lungs. Nowadays, people can get a new hand… or even a uterus.

Minister of State for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has called on organized private sector to also be part of the fight against malaria in Nigeria stressing that the sector plays an integral role in eliminating the terrible disease.

Certainly, companies have been successful in shaping malaria policies; impacting communities via workplace initiatives, product and service innovations, advocacy, research and investment.

The Minister gave this charge yesterday in Lagos at a forum organized by Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa (CAMA) as part of programs to mark the world malaria day.

Researchers have revealed on Thursday the invention of a universal antibody drug against HIV and AIDS that can "kill Two birds with one stone".

The research team led by scientists of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), made the disclosure at a news conference.

Elated scientists announced Wednesday the completion of a 20-year quest to map the complex enzyme thought to forestall ageing by repairing the tips of chromosomes in plants and animals, including humans. Decoding the architecture of the enzyme, called telomerase, could lead to drugs that slow or block the ageing process, along with new treatments for cancer, they reported in the journal Nature.

A U.S study recently published online has revealed that people who miss out on eating breakfast are more likely to gain weight and have larger waists.

The study, titled “Frequency of Breakfast Consumption, Obesity and Weight Gain” led by Kevin Smith from Mayo Clinic in the U. S., reveals that, 26.7 per cent of people who skipped breakfast were obese, compared with 10.9 per cent of those who ate it frequently.