According to updated results from an early stage clinical trial presented on Saturday, an experimental cancer drug from Loxo Oncology performed even better in patients with a rare mutation of the RET gene than previously reported. Last month, Loxo released preliminary data that revealed its drug, LOXO-292, targeting RET mutations shrank tumors in 69 percent of advanced cancer patients regardless of whether their disease originated in the lung, pancreas or thyroid.

President Buhari has praised the use of technology in the conduct of the 2015 general election, which he said helped him to win the election because it eliminated all forms of electoral malpractices. The President said this on Tuesday at the breaking of fast with the judiciary at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

As cholera epidemic continues to plague some local governments in Adamawa state, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has deployed 39 personnel to assist in combating the menace. The staff were deployed to Mubi North and Mubi South local government areas to manage a recent outbreak of cholera in the state, an official said.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC to issue public health advisory note to members of the public to be aware of the risk and take appropriate precautions, following the increasing rise in the number of Cholera case reported in Nigeria. There have been confirmed outbreaks of Cholera in Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Kano, Plateau, Yobe, Nasarawa, Anambra and Zamfara States.

From rejuvenating existing cells to simply adding fresh stem cells to replace old ones, scientists are trialing a variety of approaches that could extend our lives and keep us disease-free for longer. A team of scientists from the University of Virginia have claim that they may soon be able to reverse aging by smoothening out wrinkles inside human cells.

A recent study by Harvard researchers found that couples who ate more fish each week were more likely to conceive children during the year of the study. The researchers tracked outcomes for 500 couples over the course of one year. “Our study suggests seafood can have many reproductive benefits, including shorter time to pregnancy and more frequent sexual activity,” said study author Audrey Gaskins, from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston.