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”.

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.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it has stepped up efforts toward containing the outbreak of Cholera in Borno state as well as neighboring states in the North East.  The Country Representative of WHO, Wondi Alimu made this known on Friday when he visited the Muna Garage Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

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.

"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.

Staff of the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Friday embarked on indefinite strike to demand implemenation of an agreement on imporved weklfare reached with management in 2013.