Health

A Norwegian study suggests that women who use a lot of the common pain reliever acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy may be more likely to have children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than those who don’t use the drug.

Researchers analyzed data on almost 113,000 children and their parents, including 2,246 kids who were diagnosed with ADHD. Almost half of the mothers took paracetamol at some point during pregnancy, researchers report in Pediatrics.

The Federal Government has attributed the growing increase in the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Internally Displaced Persons (IPDs) camps to rampant rape of victims taking refuge at the camps. The Head, Humanitarian Assistance and Rehabilitation of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), Dr. Sidi Mohammed stated this on Saturday on the sidelines of a meeting organized by PCNI in the Federal Capital Territory.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has dragged the Managing Director of Tasty Time Nigeria Ltd, Isaac Kole, before the Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged manufacture of fake and unregistered products.

NAFDAC arraigned the accused on a four-count charge bordering on producing fake products, alongside his company; Tasty Time Nigeria Ltd.

Communication Specialist with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Kaduna Field Office, Rabiu Musa has disclosed that about 80% of the HIV transmission in Nigeria happened through sex.

This is just as added that about 10% of infections is through blood transfusion, while the other 10% is through other routes such as Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT), Injection Drug User (IDU), use of unsterilized instruments among others.

The United Nations Childrens Fund, Unicef, has said with Tuesday’s confirmation of two cases of monkey pox in Benue State, the number of cases in Nigeria now stands at 94.

Of the number, unicef said only nine remained confirmed cases and urged better caution and less panic among citizens.

A sexually transmitted infection that affects the eye and can even result in blindness is on the rise, according to experts.

More than 200 cases of ocular syphilis across 20 US states were documented by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) between 2014 and 2016, prompting it to issue an advisory notice to clinicians.