Health

Until now several medicinal plants have been found useful in preventing bone loss. Topmost on the list is Chenopodium ambrosioides that experts recently considered useful in bone regeneration, dressing of wounds, and fracture healing.

In a new study, researchers assessing the effect of Chenopodium ambrosioides in animals, indicate that its water extract can help to promote new bone formation, and thus fracture healing.

Bone loss is a silent condition that may not pose any symptoms or could occur slowly over the years. Many women have no idea that they have suffered bone loss until the day they trip, fall, and fracture a bone.

Former Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Ita Ekpenyong has reacted to his failed arrest by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), over alleged involvement in arm purchase for the Nigerian Military. An Unnamed source close to the former DGSS told Vanguard that the attempt to arrest Ita was strange, despicable and an afterthought since Ekpenyong was never invited or questioned in relation to the arms probe.

Nigeria has been ranked third by the United Nations Children Funds (UNICEF) among the countries of the world where people still defecate in open spaces.

This was made known by the UNICEF Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Nigeria Mr Zaid Jurji, on Wednesday in Katsina, when he paid courtesy visit to Gov. Aminu Masari.

According to Jurji the deteriorating situation of sanitation in Nigeria is alarming, adding that Nigeria ranks third worldwide when it comes to open defecation as one-third of the population practise such.

The Jigawa State Government said it has treated 57, 657 cases of acute child malnutrition in the state in 2017.

Nutrition Officer of the State Mr Magaji Ahmed, made this revelation at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Bauchi Field Office end of year review on Tuesday in Jos.

Ahmed also said the 886, 000 children were dewormed and 71,235 women were sensitised to issues of child mortality in 2017.

Health workers under the aegis of Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) at the Federal Medical Centre, (FMC), Owerri embarked on a protest within the hospital premises on November 21.

The health workers accused the management of the hospital of illegal deduction of their September salary without any supporting directive from the Federal Government.

A Group of American scientist have found a new possibility to cure leukemia, the results of a new study showed on Tuesday. Leukemia is a deadly disease that knocks down patients as young as only seven years old. In the study published in Journal Nature Medicine, the group of scientists from Stanford University and National Institute of Health found that a molecule, called “CD22”, could serve as a potent target for the killer cells of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a common childhood cancer.