Health

World Health Organisation (WHO), on Thursday disclosed that dangerous methods were used in nearly half of the 55.7 million abortions carried out each year globally.

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS, alongside the World Health Organisation and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS have commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s new commitment to HIV treatment.

There is a stigma attached to loneliness, researchers from the LSE have estimated that the UK’s “epidemic of loneliness” costs £6,000 per person for a decade of an older person’s life in health costs and pressure on local services. However, they also say that for every £1 spent on preventing loneliness, there’s the potential to save £3. The researchers have put a price tag on the “epidemic of loneliness”.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday recommended six months paid maternity leave and four weeks paid paternity leave to ensure a healthy development of young children.

A 35-year-old man in France, who had been in coma and vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident, has shown signs of consciousness, after surgeons used a technique to stimulate his brain via a nerve in the neck. This happened after a vagus nerve stimulator was implanted into his chest, researchers said Monday.

"World's heaviest woman," Eman Abdul Atti, died on Monday due to complications from heart disease and kidney dysfunction, according to a statement from Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.