Scientists Develop Technique That Can Reverse Ageing Process By 30 Years

HealthNewsResearch & DevelopmentScientists Develop Technique That Can Reverse Ageing Process By 30 Years

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 17, 2022

Researchers have developed a new technique for rejuvenating skin cells, which can reverse the aging process and rewind the biological clock of patients by 30 years. The new research was conducted at the Babraham Institute, a life sciences research organisation in Cambridge, and the results were published in the journal eLife. “Excitingly, our method substantially rejuvenated multiple cellular attributes including the transcriptome, which was rejuvenated by around 30 years as measured by a novel transcriptome...

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37 Inmates Infected by Monkeypox in Adamawa

Health37 Inmates Infected by Monkeypox in Adamawa

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 15, 2022

YOLA — 37 inmates at the Jimeta Correctional Centre in Yola North local government area of Adamawa State were affected by Monkeypox. Health authorities said. Adamawa State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Isa Abdullahi while addressing journalists at the Specialist Hospital Jimeta Thursday said due to health interventions all the affected persons recovered without any death recorded. “Adamawa State recently recorded its first-ever confirmed cases of monkeypox early this year 2022. After a few weeks, an...

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The Female Wonders ―What You Do Not Know About the Vagina

ColumnsHealthLifestyleThe Female Wonders ―What You Do Not Know About the Vagina

PilotnewsApril 6, 20221

Let me guess. You are here because you have a vagina or are a friend of the vagina. Either way, you are welcome. Read through these genitalic words: “ikpu”, “toto”, cunt, camel toe, puna, fish lips, coochie, cookie, bearded clam, paradise, golden palace, papaya and most common of all, pussy. Apart from “ikpu (the Igbo word) and “toto” (the Yoruba expression), the reason why the vagina is coded as other slangy words might be because...

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FG Disburses N200,000 Grant to Local Producers of Assistive Devices

BusinessHealthFG Disburses N200,000 Grant to Local Producers of Assistive Devices

PilotnewsApril 6, 2022

LOKOJA — The Federal Government has disbursed N200, 000 each to some identified local producers of assistive devices across the 36 states of the federation. Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (FMHADMSD) said this at a three-day capacity building workshop for Local Producers of Assistive Technologies (AT) in Lokoja, Kogi. The minister explained that the ministry in collaboration with state governments had earlier in 2018, through a forum...

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Health Minister Calls For Removal Of Barriers Hindering The Growth Of Traditional Medicine

HealthNewsHealth Minister Calls For Removal Of Barriers Hindering The Growth Of Traditional Medicine

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 5, 2022

The Minister of State for Health, Adeleke Mamora, has called for the removal of all barriers hindering the growth of traditional medicine in Nigeria and Africa. He was speaking at an event organised by the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development in Nigeria (NIPRD) to seek ways of improving the traditional medicine industry in Africa. Mamora explained that traditional medicine is part and parcel of the culture of Africa and must be encouraged to...

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Follow Soludo Steps, Enugu Residents Cry Out Over Garbage Spill to Ugwuanyi

EnvironmentHealthFollow Soludo Steps, Enugu Residents Cry Out Over Garbage Spill to Ugwuanyi

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)April 4, 2022

ENUGU — The ambiance once enjoyed by the coal city residents and visitors have become a thing of the past as gory sights of garbage in all nooks and cranny of Enugu state raise questions on the existence or extinct of the waste management agency established in 2004 under Chimaroke Nnamani administration. The once spick and span environs of the city now compete with Onitsha in Anambra State and Aba in Abia state; Onitsha in...

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Benue State Has Two Million IDPs Scattered In 27 Camps – Dr. Shior

HealthNewsBenue State Has Two Million IDPs Scattered In 27 Camps – Dr. Shior

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 2, 2022

The Executive Secretary, Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Dr. Emmanuel Shior said about two million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are presently in 27 camps in Benue State, has said. Shior, while flagging-off the months’ distribution of relief materials to the IDPs in Makurdi, said the camps were made up of seven official and 20 unofficial camps scattered across the State. He lamented the worsening humanitarian crisis in the State occasioned by the frequent attacks...

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Spit And Don’t Rinse With Water Immediately After Brushing For Better Oral Health – Doctor Advises

HealthWellnessSpit And Don’t Rinse With Water Immediately After Brushing For Better Oral Health – Doctor Advises

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 26, 2022

“Spit don’t rinse” is the message from a medical practitioner, Dr. Olufunmilayo Adeniyi as she reveals many of us could be putting our oral health at risk by making the mistake of rinsing after we brush our teeth. Speaking in an interview on Your View – a TV programme on Television Continental – Dr. Adeniyi said rinsing the mouth immediately after brushing washes away the concentrated fluoride in the remaining toothpaste by diluting it and reducing its preventative effects...

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TB Kills 4,000 People Daily Globally-Gundiri

HealthWellnessTB Kills 4,000 People Daily Globally-Gundiri

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 25, 2022

YOLA — About 4,000 lives were lost daily due to Tuberculosis infection with 28,000 people falling sick to the disease globally. Adamawa State Programme Manager, Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control, Doctor Boniface Gundiri disclosed this at a one-day sensitization programme to educate the public about the ailment to commemorate this year World TB Day. The programme which took place Thursday at the premises of the Out-Patient Department, OPD, of the Specialist Hospital Yola, was organized by...

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Defecating Openly In Jigawa State Attracts One Month Imprisonment

EnvironmentHealthNewsDefecating Openly In Jigawa State Attracts One Month Imprisonment

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 23, 2022

A bill aimed at promoting sanitation and public hygiene and to prevent open defecation across Jigawa state has been passed by the State House of Assembly. The bill was passed on Tuesday during the House plenary presided by the Speaker, Hon Idris Garba Jahun. According to the Speaker, when the bill was signed into law, any person caught urinating or defecating openly not in the house, public toilet, and other designated places will be sentenced...

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