Researchers claim that Triclosan, a harmful antibacterial agent used in some tooth pastes accumulates in toothbrush bristles. This means your exposure to the chemical can continue even if you switch to a triclosan-free toothpaste, the report warned.
A new research contends that folks who frequently indulge in marijuana actually have better sex lives.
People who report daily marijuana use have sex more often than either occasional users or those who never touch the stuff, the researchers found.
The study conducted by researchers at Washington University in the US, claimed that women who are trying to conceive may have better chance at it, if they happen to drink red wine once every week.
The researchers also clarified that while drinking wine had no apparent link in increasing fertility, but wine could help the ovarian reserve (the quantity of eggs present in the ovaries at any one time) of the hopeful mothers.
In furtherance of its pledge to sanitize the private health sector, the Oyo state government's Task force on Private Health Facilities sealed four hospitals over offences ranging from non-registration of the premises, unhygienic hospital environment, improper disposal of medical wastes and failure to have qualified medical staff on ground.
The task force sealed a hospital in Apete area, which is among the four over its prescription of analgin to patients, a banned drug in Nigeria.
The Minister of State for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has announced laboratory confirmation of six additional cases among the suspected cases of Monkeypox.
These include two cases each in Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom States, one in Enugu State and one in the Federal Capital Territory, making it a total of nine confirmed cases of Monkeypox in Nigeria.
Essential health services in Kenya and Uganda could suffer following the Donald Trump administration’s restrictions on funding, the Human Rights Watch has warned.
The two countries are likely to lose part of the 914 billion shillings the United States intends to withhold from Africa as part of its efforts to freeze funding for NGOs that recommend or provide abortions.
