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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.

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.

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.

Nigeria’s rating as the second country with highest maternal death rate in the world and its contribution of 15 per cent of annual global death is causing anxiety in health sector.