A cholera epidemic has been reported in Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Kawo, Kaduna State, with about 39 students reportedly hospitalised, at the Kawo General Hospital, while 89 other students are under watch.
The Kaduna State Commissioner for Education, Jafaru Sani, on Monday confirmed the outbreak at the GGSS Kawo, while addressing the press.
Health official have been deployed to the school to manage the situation.
The life of a woman with terminal breast cancer has been saved by a pioneering new therapy, say US researchers.
It involved pumping 90 billion cancer-killing immune cells into her body.
Judy Perkins had been given three months to live, but two years later there is no sign of cancer in her body.
The team at the US National Cancer Institute says the therapy is still experimental, but could transform the treatment of all cancer.
Judy - who lives in Florida - had spreading, advanced breast cancer that could not be treated with conventional therapy.
An American Cancer Society researchers have found that their seems to be a rise of colorectal cancer among people aged between 20 and 29.
The results from the study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, shows alarming increase in young people falling ill with colorectal cancer and researchers are disturbed it could be down to today's lifestyle.
Colorectal is a cancer of the colon or rectum, located at the digesive tract's lower end. Its symptoms include abdominal pain and change in bowel habits.
The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) has sealed off 280 patent medicine stores for various unethical offences in Zamfara state. The council’s Director in charge of Inspection and Monitoring, Mrs Anthonia Aruya, announced the closure at a news conference in Gusau. She said the measure became necessary to prevent people from taking poison unknowingly as prescribed drugs.
The Joint Health Workers Union (JOHESU) has suspended its nationwide strike.
The union suspended its strike on Thursday and directed all members to resume work on Monday, June 4, 2018.
President of JOHESU, Mr Josiah Biobelemonye, while briefing journalist in Abuja, said the strike was called off following the intervention of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki after several meetings with the union and the Federal Government had ended in a deadlock.
Tennessee is the most recent state to report an outbreak of hepatitis A, with Nashville claiming 14 confirmed cases since December.
Hepatitis A is a viral infection that causes inflammation of the liver. Over the past two years, six other states have experienced outbreaks, and although demand for the vaccine outpaced supply earlier this year, there is enough supply to satisfy current needs, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
California, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Utah and West Virginia have reported outbreaks of hepatitis A since March 2017. Cases in these states, with the exception of Michigan, have been genetically identical or similar, according to the CDC. Laboratory reports have not determined whether the viral strains from cases in Nashville are also genetically linked.
