Welcome to Doctors Beyond Borders.
Dr. Adesola Lajide, CEO of The Smartlaj Medical Diagnostic Centre in Nigeria who also serves as our in-house physician and global author, has struck an international partnership with the global health services provider, Doctors Beyond Borders to bring the most innovative health care delivery system to Africans and globally.
The purpose of the project is to provide excellent and world class treatment to patients at a very reduced cost.
Dr. Adesola brought this initiative to Nigeria after a long and sustained relationship with the Doctors Beyond Borders.
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ReplyDeleteAssisted Reproductive Technology (ART) includes in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET), gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT), zygote intrafallopian transfer (ZIFT), and frozen embryo transfer (FET). These techniques also apply to oocyte donation and gestational carriers. Approximately 99 percent of ART cycles performed are IVF-ET. IVF-ET has helped many couples conceive successfully. ART may be recommended when other treatments (such as intrauterine insemination) have not been successful or when there is severe male factor infertility, severe endometriosis or tubal obstruction.
Fertility therapy generates a wide range of emotions. Waiting, uncertainty, and the demands of treatment can lead to feelings of frustration, confusion, and resentment. We believe that the more you know about the tests and treatments, the less anxiety and concern you will feel about your condition. If you are going through this process with a partner, please review this information together.
Most centers utilize a multi-disciplinary professional team. During your treatment cycle, many team members, in addition to your individual physician, will participate in your care. Advanced infertility procedures require time and energy, as well as an emotional and financial commitment. The entire staff should make every effort to provide you with personal and compassionate care in order to make this difficult time as comfortable and manageable as possible.
http://www.sart.org/SART_Assisted_Reproductive_Technologies/
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Endoscopic Therapy
ReplyDeleteSince the late 1980s, endoscopic hemostatic therapy has been widely accepted as the first-line therapy for upper-gastrointestinal bleeding. Numerous clinical trials and two meta-analyses have confirmed the efficacy of endoscopic therapy in this setting.[27,28] Most clinical trials demonstrated a reduction in both recurrent bleeding and the need for surgical intervention when endoscopic hemostasis was used.
Endoscopic therapy can be broadly categorized into injection therapy, thermal coagulation, and mechanical hemostasis. When analyzed separately, injection therapy, thermal-contact devices, and laser treatment all decrease the frequency of recurrent bleeding and rate of surgical intervention.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/521189_4
Surgical Treatment of Coexisting Cataract and Glaucoma: Summary;
ReplyDeleteCataract and glaucoma are both common conditions and are often present in the same patient. Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure on Medicare beneficiaries. In 1998, approximately 1.4 million cataract surgeries were performed on Medicare beneficiaries. Primary open-angle glaucoma affects at least 2.5 million individuals in the United States, predominantly adults over 50 years of age. The total direct cost expenditures for glaucoma therapy have been estimated at $1.56 billion dollars per year.
Although guidelines exist for the indications for cataract surgery in the otherwise healthy eye and for glaucoma surgery in eyes with glaucoma, there is controversy concerning the indications for surgery when both cataract and glaucoma are present. In addition, there is no clear consensus about the appropriate timing of the surgery for either condition, or about the best surgical technique. Furthermore, there is no agreement concerning the optimal management of these disorders when coexistent. Therefore, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, now renamed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), awarded a contract to the Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center to prepare an evidence report on the topic. This evidence report was undertaken:
To identify the most important questions pertinent to surgical treatment of coexisting cataract and glaucoma.
To assess the quality and content of the evidence on surgical treatment of coexistent cataract and glaucoma.
To inform clinical practitioners and identify areas where future research is needed.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11938/
(CNN) -- A ground-breaking cell transplant has allowed a paralyzed man to walk again, researchers announced Tuesday.
ReplyDeletePolish man Darek Fidyka, 38, had been left paralyzed from the chest down after a 2010 knife attack caused an 8mm gap in his spinal cord. An initial 13 months of rehabilitation followed by an additional 8-month program before the experimental treatment had not produced an improvement in his condition, researchers said.
But two years after the 2012 cell transplant he can walk with the aid of a Zimmer frame, also known as a walker.
Scientists at University College London (UCL) developed the treatment, which saw olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) from the nose transplanted to Fidyka's spinal cord. OECs are what allow the sense of smell to return when nerve cells in the nose are damaged.
Surgeons at Wroclaw University in Poland led by Dr Pawel Tabakow injected the OECs above and below Fidyka's spinal cord gap, then used nerve tissue taken from his ankle to act as a bridge for spinal nerves to grow across, UCL said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/23/health/paralysis-cell-transplant/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
There are different types of treatment for patients with prostate cancer.
ReplyDeleteDifferent types of treatment are available for patients with prostate cancer. Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment), and some are being tested in clinical trials. A treatment clinical trial is a research study meant to help improve current treatments or obtain information on new treatments for patients with cancer. When clinical trials show that a new treatment is better than the standard treatment, the new treatment may become the standard treatment. Patients may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial. Some clinical trials are open only to patients who have not started treatment.
Seven types of standard treatment are used:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/prostate/Patient/page4#Keypoint13
There are different types of treatment for patients with breast cancer.
ReplyDeleteDifferent types of treatment are available for patients with breast cancer. Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment), and some are being tested in clinical trials. A treatment clinical trial is a research study meant to help improve current treatments or obtain information on new treatments for patients with cancer. When clinical trials show that a new treatment is better than the standard treatment, the new treatment may become the standard treatment. Patients may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial. Some clinical trials are open only to patients who have not started treatment.
Six types of standard treatment are used:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/breast/Patient/page5#Keypoint19
Hip Replacement Surgery
ReplyDeleteTotal joint replacement involves surgery to replace the ends of both bones in a damaged joint to create new joint surfaces.
Total hip replacement surgery uses metal, ceramic, or plastic parts to replace the ball at the upper end of the thighbone (femur) and resurface the hip socket in the pelvic bone.
Total hip replacement surgery replaces damaged cartilage camera.gif with new joint material in a step-by-step process slideshow.gif.
Doctors may attach replacement joints to the bones with or without cement.
Cemented joints are attached to the existing bone with cement, which acts as a glue and attaches the artificial joint to the bone.
Uncemented joints are attached using a porous coating that is designed to allow the bone to adhere to the artificial joint. Over time, new bone grows and fills up the openings in the porous coating, attaching the joint to the bone.
http://www.webmd.com/arthritis/surgery-hip-replacement
Doctors beyond borders? Is it the same as Medicine sans frontiers? Or Doctors without borders? What is the difference?
ReplyDeleteThe two organizations are not the same! Doctors beyond borders is a medical tourism company to whom patients who need tertiary care are referred to. Doctors without borders is an organization that deals with humanitarian issues such as the current ebola epidemic in West Africa, the HIV/AIDS pandemic in poor countries and similar issues
ReplyDeleteOk. thanks for the clarifications. I live in the US. How does it work? Do I get referred to hospitals here in the US or oversees?
DeleteDear Jermain; You certainly can be referred to hospitals in the United States, once you fill the form with the link at the top of the newsletter.
DeleteDoctors beyond borders refers patients to 19 hospitals with the best panel of doctors in North America, Asia and Africa.
• Doctors Beyond Borders is a revolutionary patient centric medical services
ReplyDeletecompany that has built the first truly comprehensive online portal that
aggregates the top 1% of international hospitals and surgeons sharing their
surgery costs, patient reviews and instant online consultations for free.
•This organization services the needs of patients both with ease of information
online and a patient concierge service offline at the hospital that they decide to
choose for treatment ensuring the highest quality of care and transparency in
costs.
Doctors Beyond Borders;
ReplyDeleteOur offline services include providing doctors and skill development for surgeons
to international hospitals along with teleradiology/telemedicine solutions.
The link to the landing page of doctors beyond borders, is at the top of the newsletter.
Hello Dr. I like the idea. But I am not sick. Can I still register or is the service to only those who are sick?
DeleteDear Lamech, Even when you are not sick, doctors beyond borders can perform, a routine medical examination. Simply utilize the link at the top of the newsletter, to fill the relevant form.
DeleteThanks dr.
DeleteI just registered. What next?
DeleteExpect an e-mail message from an official of the company!
DeleteLow back pain (LBP) affects approximately 60–85% of adults during some point in their lives. Fortunately, for the large majority of individuals, symptoms are mild and transient, with 90% subsiding within 6 weeks. Chronic low back pain, defined as pain symptoms persisting beyond 3 months, affects an estimated 15–45% of the population. For the minority with intractable symptoms, the impact on quality of life and economic implications are considerable. Despite the high prevalence of low back pain within the general population, the diagnostic approach and therapeutic options are diverse and often inconsistent, resulting in rising costs and variability in management throughout the country. In part, this is due to the difficulty establishing a clear etiology for most patients, with known nociceptive pain generators identified throughout the axial spine. Back pain has been termed as “an illness in search of a disease.” Indeed, once “red flag” diagnoses such as cancer and fracture have been ruled out, the differential sources of low back pain remain broad, including the extensive realm of degenerative changes within the axial spine for which radiological evaluation is nonspecific and causal relationships are tentative. We will elaborate on these degenerative processes and their clinical implications. We will further discuss diagnostic approaches and the efficacy of existing treatment options.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697338/
http://www.doctorsbeyondborders.com/get-free-treatment-cost/dr-adesola/
In patients with brain tumor (BT), seizures are the onset symptom in 20-40% of patients, while a further 20-45% of patients will present them during the course of the disease. These patients present a complex therapeutic profile and require a unique and multidisciplinary approach. The choice of antiepileptic drugs is challenging for this particular patient population because brain tumor-related epilepsy (BTRE) is often drug-resistant, has a strong impact on the quality of life and weighs heavily on public health expenditures.
ReplyDeleteIn BT patients, the presence of epilepsy is considered the most important risk factor for long-term disability. For this reason, the problem of the proper administration of medications and their potential side effects is of great importance, because good seizure control can significantly improve the patient’s psychological and relational sphere.
In these patients, new generation drugs such as gabapentin, lacosamide, levetiracetam, oxcarbazepine, pregabalin, topiramate, zonisamide are preferred because they have fewer drug interactions and cause fewer side effects. Among the recently marketed drugs, lacosamide has demonstrated promising results and should be considered a possible treatment option.
Therefore, it is necessary to develop a customized treatment plan for each individual patient with BTRE. This requires a vision of patient management concerned not only with medical therapies (pharmacological, surgical, radiological, etc.) but also with emotional and psychological support for the individual as well as his or her family throughout all stages of the illness.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3386502/
Hello dr. I went to the link but I did not see the price for the treatments. Will see the price once I sign up?
ReplyDeleteThe first step is to fill the form and hence sign up! An official of our organization will reply you with an e-mail message that contains his phone contact details. Then the conversation will commence, and the necessary treatment cost you require will follow.
DeleteSigning up at the url link; http://www.doctorsbeyondborders.com/get-free-treatment-cost/dr-adesola/ at the top of the newsletter is a very important first step. The cost of treatment for different ailments, differ . For example, therapeutic endoscopy for peptic ulcer is much cheaper than total hip replacement for hip deformity. Doctors beyond borders will examine several aspects of your ailment before coming up with a treatment cost. Hence it is crucial to first engage an official of the organization, through the exchange of e-mail messages, and telephone conversations.
ReplyDeleteBrain metastasis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality and a critical complication of non-central nervous system primary carcinoma. The present study describes the clinical case of a 46-year-old male with lung cancer and life-threatening brain metastases. The patient was diagnosed with lung cancer with a clinical stage of T2N0M1 (stage IV). Six months after the initial diagnosis and administration of conformal radiotherapy combined with three cycles of chemotherapy, an enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealed abnormalities with double-dosing of intravenous contrast. The CT scan identified >24 lesions scattered in the whole brain. The patient was treated with three-fraction Cyberknife radiotherapy at 22 Gy, delivered to the brain metastases at the Center for Tumor Treatment of People’s Liberation Army 107th Hospital. Following CyberKnife therapy, a CT scan of the brain revealed that most of the tumors had disappeared with almost no residual traces. The stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) conducted using CyberKnife, an image-guided frameless robotic technology for whole-body radiosurgery, had produced a marked response. The present case report demonstrates that CyberKnife therapy plays a significant role in the management of multiple meta-static brain tumors.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3788854/
Leukemia is a cancer of the blood cells. There are several types of blood cells, including red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs), and platelets. Generally, leukemia refers to cancers of the WBCs. Two types of WBCs often involved in leukemia are granulocytes and lymphocytes.
ReplyDeleteWhite blood cells are a vital part of your immune system. They protect your body from invasion by bacteria, viruses, and fungi. WBCs also protect your body from abnormal cells and other foreign substances. In leukemia, the white blood cells have mutated. These mutant white blood cells may divide too quickly and eventually crowd out normal cells. Often, they do not function as normal WBCs.
Leukemia is usually treated by a hematologist-oncologist. These are doctors who specialize in blood disorders and cancer. Treatment depends upon the type and stage of the cancer. Some slow growing forms of leukemia do not need immediate treatment. This is called “watchful waiting.” However, treatment of leukemia usually involves chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and possibly stem cell transplantation.
The cells in your bone marrow which make new blood are known as stem cells. Stem cell transplantation replaces your stem cells with cells from a healthy donor. This can keep your body from making more cancerous cells. The diseased bone marrow has to be destroyed before a stem cell transplant can be performed. Doctors do this with chemotherapy and radiation. Radiation therapy can be directed to a specific part of the body or applied to the entire body. This is known as whole body radiation.
Biological therapy can also be used to treat leukemia. It uses medications to boost your immune system. Targeted therapy uses drugs that take advantage of specific vulnerabilities in cancer cells. Imatinib (Gleevec) is a targeted drug that acts against a protein found in CML cells.
Positron emission tomography–computed tomography (better known as PET-CT or PET/CT) is a medical imaging technique using a device which combines in a single gantry system both a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner and an x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner, so that images acquired from both devices can be taken sequentially, in the same session, and combined into a single superposed (co-registered) image. Thus, functional imaging obtained by PET, which depicts the spatial distribution of metabolic or biochemical activity in the body can be more precisely aligned or correlated with anatomic imaging obtained by CT scanning. Two- and three-dimensional image reconstruction may be rendered as a function of a common software and control system.
ReplyDeletePET-CT has revolutionized medical diagnosis in many fields, by adding precision of anatomic localization to functional imaging, which was previously lacking from pure PET imaging. For example, many diagnostic imaging procedures in oncology, surgical planning, radiation therapy and cancer staging have been changing rapidly under the influence of PET-CT availability, and centers have been gradually abandoning conventional PET devices and substituting them by PET-CTs. Although the combined/hybrid device is considerably more expensive, it has the advantage of providing both functions as stand-alone examinations, being, in fact, two devices in one.
The only other obstacle to the wider use of PET-CT is the difficulty and cost of producing and transporting the radiopharmaceuticals used for PET imaging, which are usually extremely short-lived (for instance, the half life of radioactive fluorine18 used to trace glucose metabolism (using fluorodeoxyglucose, FDG) is two hours only. Its production requires a very expensive cyclotron as well as a production line for the radiopharmaceuticals.
PET-MRI, like PET-CT, combines modalities to produce co-registered images.
Lymphoma is a group of blood cell tumors that develop from lymphocytes. It is sometimes used to refer to just the cancerous ones rather than all tumors. Symptoms may include: enlarged lymph nodes that are not generally painful, fevers, sweats, itchiness, weight loss and feeling tired among others. The sweats are most common at night.
ReplyDeleteThere are two main types: Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL),[4] with two others, multiple myeloma and immunoproliferative diseases, also included by the World Health Organization within the category. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma makes up about 90% of cases and includes a large number of sub-types. Lymphomas are part of the broader group of neoplasms called tumors of the hematopoietic and lymphoid tissues.
Risk factors for HL include: infection with Epstein-Barr virus and having other in the family with the disease. Risk factors for NHL include: autoimmune diseases, HIV/AIDS, infection with human T-lymphotropic virus, eating a large amount of meat and fat, as well as immunosuppressant medications and some pesticides They are usually diagnosed by blood, urine, or bone marrow testing. A biopsy of a lymph node may also be useful. Medical imaging then may be done to determine if and where the cancer has spread. This spread can occur to many other organs including: lungs, liver, and brain.
Treatment may involve some combination of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted therapy and surgery. In NHL the blood may become so thick with protein that a procedure called plasmapheresis is needed. Watchful waiting may be appropriate for certain types.[3] Some types are curable.The overall five-year survival rate in the United States for HL is 85%[8] while that for NHL is 69%. Worldwide, lymphomas developed in 566,000 people in 2012 and caused 305,000 deaths. They make up 3-4% of all cancers, making them as a group the 7th most common form. In children they are the third most common cancer. They occur more often in the developed world than the developing world.
Your doctor will diagnose lymphoma with a physical exam, blood tests, a chest x-ray, and a biopsy. Treatments include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted therapy, biological therapy, or therapy to remove proteins from the blood. Targeted therapy uses substances that attack cancer cells without harming normal cells. Biologic therapy boosts your body's own ability to fight cancer. If you don't have symptoms, you may not need treatment right away. This is called watchful waiting.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/lymphoma.html
Editor's note: This is the 10th in a series on the legacies of World War I appearing on CNN.com/Opinion for the 100-year anniversary of the war's outbreak. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is guest editor for the series. Perri Klass is a professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University and director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
ReplyDelete(CNN) -- Before Ebola, there was the flu -- the Spanish flu of 1918, which burned rapidly through army barracks, refugee camps, troop ships, all the crowded high-risk zones that World War I created.
Some people think it came out of Kansas. The first American cases developed there. Soldiers from army camps like Fort Riley, in eastern Kansas, carried the virus to other camps around the U.S., and over the sea to France.
The flu of 1918-1919 came toward the end of the First World War -- which began a century ago this year -- and it killed more people than died in that conflict, more people than the Black Death, back in the 14th century. In fact, nobody knows exactly how many people died around the world; the estimates go all the way up to 100 million, which would have been 5% of the world's population.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/09/opinion/klass-flu-pandemic-world-war-i/index.html?hpt=hp_t5
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Major-Challenges-Humanity-Century/dp/1609767136/ref=sr_1_1/185-9373845-3036141?ie=UTF8&qid=1415279542&sr=8-1&keywords=Three+major+challenges+to+humanity+in+the+21st+century+by+dr+adesola+Laji
(CNN) -- Using marijuana at an early age could have long-term consequences on your brain and it may even lower your IQ, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
ReplyDeleteResearchers found that compared to nonusers, people who smoked marijuana starting as early as age 14 have less brain volume, or gray matter, in the orbitofrontal cortex. That's the area in the front of your brain that helps you make decisions.
"The younger the individual started using, the more pronounced the changes," said Dr. Francesca Filbey, the study's principal investigator and associate professor at the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. "Adolescence is when the brain starts maturing and making itself more adult-like, so any exposure to toxic substances can set the course for how your brain ends up."
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/10/health/pot-and-your-brain/index.html?hpt=hp_t5
Editor's note: David Nabarro is the U.N. Secretary General's Special Envoy on Ebola. The views expressed are his own.
ReplyDelete(CNN) -- Ebola is not a death sentence. That is the lesson to the world from the release this week of Dr. Craig Spencer from a hospital in New York.
Less than three weeks ago, Spencer was diagnosed with Ebola and admitted to Bellevue Hospital in New York. On Tuesday, he walked out, free of the virus. Spencer had been treating Ebola patients in Guinea. He knew he was risking his life. But he also knew that, given proper care, people can survive this disease. Indeed, eight of the nine people treated for Ebola in the United States have returned home safely to their families.
That's the good news: Health care can make a difference. In, Africa, however, too many Ebola patients are dying from the disease, nearly 5,000 from the about 13,500 cases that have been reported. Yet we can dramatically reduce this rate and ensure the disease is not spread.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/11/opinion/nabarro-ebola-response/index.html?hpt=hp_t5
Music therapy is the use of interventions to accomplish individual goals within a
ReplyDeleteherapeutic relationship by a professional who has completed an approved music therapy
program. Music therapy is an allied health profession and one of the expressive
therapies, consisting of a process in which a music therapist uses music and all of its
facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients
improve their physical and mental health. Music therapists primarily help clients improve
their health in several domains, such as cognitive functioning, motor skills, emotional
development, social skills, and quality of life, by using music experiences such as free
improvisation, singing, and listening to, discussing, and moving to music to achieve
treatment goals. It has a wide qualitative and quantitative research literature base and
incorporates clinical therapy, psychotherapy, biomusicology, musical acoustics, music
theory, psychoacoustics, embodied music cognition, aesthetics of music, sensory
integration, and comparative musicology.
Gerardo Ferreyra Orellano
DeleteAustraliasia Regional sales at BODEGA FURLOTTI SA
"I like your post about Music therapy. Actually I am a founder of Salsa Music therapy. Salsa Music Therapy, in neuroscience studies, has been found to be as effective as traditional forms of psychotherapy. Music and movement can be very powerful. Rhythm is the most important element that shows how the brain responds to music, activating multiple areas in the brain. This was proven by researchers conducting Brain MRIs on patients while listening to music. Humans are born with the gift of being able to respond to music. Music in a therapeutic framework is both calming and physically beneficial"
What is Music Therapy?
ReplyDeleteMusic Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.
Music Therapy is an established health profession in which music is used within a therapeutic relationship to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals. After assessing the strengths and needs of each client, the qualified music therapist provides the indicated treatment including creating, singing, moving to, and/or listening to music. Through musical involvement in the therapeutic context, clients' abilities are strengthened and transferred to other areas of their lives. Music therapy also provides avenues for communication that can be helpful to those who find it difficult to express themselves in words. Research in music therapy supports its effectiveness in many areas such as: overall physical rehabilitation and facilitating movement, increasing people's motivation to become engaged in their treatment, providing emotional support for clients and their families, and providing an outlet for expression of feelings.
http://www.musictherapy.org/about/musictherapy/
SAFARI tents remain zipped, hotel pools are empty, game guides idle among lions and elephants. Tour operators across Africa are reporting the biggest drop in business in living memory. A specialist travel agency, SafariBookings.com, says a survey of 500 operators in September showed a fall in bookings of between 20% and 70%. Since then the trend has accelerated, especially in Botswana, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania. Several American and European agents have stopped offering African tours for the time being.
ReplyDeleteThe reason is the outbreak of the Ebola virus in west Africa, which has killed more than 5,000 people. The epidemic is taking place far from the big safari destinations in eastern and southern Africa—as far or farther than the homes of many European tourists (see map). There are more air links from west Africa to Europe than to the rest of the continent, whose airlines have in any case largely suspended flights.
Moreover Ebola is hardly the biggest killer disease in Africa (AIDS and malaria are bigger). Yet, in the mind of many visitors, all of Africa is a single country. One despairing tour operator calls it an “epidemic of ignorance”.
Directly and indirectly, tourism accounts for almost 10% of sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP and pays the salaries of millions of people. The industry is worth about $170 billion a year. In 2013 more than 36m people visited Africa, a figure that had been growing by 6% per year. Now many safari lodges are closer to extinction than the animals that surround them. Redundant workers might eventually turn to poaching.
Ebola in graphics: examining the data behind the crisis so far
Fear of Ebola is growing among Africans, too. Morocco said it would not host the African Cup of Nations, the premier football event on the continent, due to start on January 17th. Morocco had sought a year-long postponement, citing the danger of the virus spreading at large gatherings. Miffed, the Confederation of African Football barred Morocco, which has not had a single Ebola case, from the tournament. The three worst-affected countries—Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea—have not, or not yet qualified. Organisers are scrambling to find an alternative host. African football may be the next victim of Ebola.
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21632641-virus-claiming-new-victimsafrican-tourism-and-football-ignorance
Scientists have developed a promising treatment for prostate cancer by starving tumours of their blood supply.
ReplyDeleteBritish researchers say the new approach could be tested in patients within two years, potentially giving them the ability to stop cancers growing and spreading.
The scientists made the breakthrough after discovered a molecule which plays a key role in aggressive prostate cancer.
Crucially, the academics from Bristol and Nottingham universities have already worked out how to neutralise the dangerous molecule.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2828668/Prostate-cancer-breakthrough-scientists-discover-STARVE-tumours-blood-supply.html#ixzz3JKsxDNoZ
Vital Signs is a monthly program bringing viewers health stories from around the world.
ReplyDelete(CNN) -- As the developing world becomes more developed, the rise in prosperity in these countries could also result in the rise of a lethal infectious disease -- tuberculosis (TB).
Changes in diets and lifestyles are taking place across emerging economies, particularly as more people move to urban settings to earn a living. The changes are resulting in higher rates of diseases such as type-2 diabetes. The condition decreases the body's ability to produce insulin and absorb glucose from the bloodstream and affected 382 million globally in 2013. The International Diabetes Federation predicts that over 70% of type-2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed with the adoption of healthier lifestyles. Worryingly, diabetes also triples the risk a person will develop TB.
Nine million people developed TB in 2013 and 1.5 million died from the disease, according to the World Health Organization. Today, increasing numbers of people affected by diabetes could hamper efforts to control new TB infections.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/19/health/diabetes-tuberculosis-tb/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Excessive dehydration over a short period and overwhelming infection, are amongst the clinical features of ebola. The pathogenesis is been elucidated; http://www.infection-research.de/news/view/detail/item-1/ebola_virus_protein_can_cause_massive_inflammation_and_leaky_blood_vessels/
ReplyDelete(CNN) -- Ebola has officially been eradicated from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization declared Friday, even amid fresh concerns about the deadly virus in places like Sierra Leone and Mali.
ReplyDeleteThe United Nations health agency cleared the DRC for Ebola because 42 days had passed since tests came back negative on the last person with the disease and there have been no other cases since.
The WHO credited the central African country's leadership and effective coordination, including steps to monitor those with the disease and the people they had been in contact with, for the milestone. This marks the seventh Ebola outbreak in the DRC since the virus was first identified in 1976, the agency said.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has had 38 confirmed and 28 probable reported Ebola cases in recent months. Of those, 49 people -- including eight health care workers -- have died.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/21/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html?hpt=iaf_c2
A detailed understanding of the immunology of malaria, is key to vaccine development for malaria;
ReplyDeleteChallenges to developing malaria vaccines
Even with the recent progress, accelerating development of malaria vaccines remains as complex as ever. Developers face myriad challenges, including:
There are no known correlates of immunity for malaria vaccines; therefore, vaccine candidates can only be shown to work (or not work) by going through clinical trials. The need for an empirical process makes developing malaria vaccines expensive and time consuming.
Owing to the above, the field would benefit from the availability of diverse target antigens and antigen delivery platforms capable of inducing a variety of immune responses. Few new antigens have been added to the malaria vaccine candidate arsenal over the past decade, and immune-enhancing adjuvants, which are few in number and largely controlled by for-profit entities, are not freely available.
The field needs additional, and more rigorously qualified, assays and models for assessing vaccine candidates to inform decision-making along the development pathway.
Various business models are needed for ensuring the availability of vaccines once developed.
Activities to ensure vaccine financing and use are crucial if a viable candidate is to advance through development and reach those in need.
http://www.malariavaccine.org/malvac-state-of-vaccine-dev.php
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday gave a chilling account of how he contracted prostate cancer last December and got cured of it in October 2014.
ReplyDeleteSoyinka disclosed this on Tuesday at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, while addressing journalists at a press conference tagged ‘Beyond Ebola and Beyond reign of the Silent Killer,’ which was meant to create awareness on cancer.
Though he neither gave details of where and how he got cured, he described the ailment as a ‘nuisance which must be got rid of.’
The literary icon said having got cured of the disease, he decided to make his health status public so as to encourage cancer victims to go for medical treatment.
Soyinka also noted that cancer should not be regarded as a death sentence.
He said, “In December last year, I discovered that I had cancer, we were making sure that, that was what it was before going for other tests. And once it was established that I did have cancer and I was sure because in my family we had an uncle, at the time he died, we did not have all the sophisticated ways of knowing how he died.
“What killed him was attributed to a lot of things. From the little things I know about cancer, I came to a conclusion that he died of cancer, maybe we have it in our family.”
http://swankpharm.com/2014/11/26/i-survived-cancer-wole-soyinka/
(CNN) -- The first human trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine has produced promising results, U.S. scientists said, raising hopes that protection from the deadly disease may be on the horizon.
ReplyDeleteAll 20 healthy adults who received the vaccine in a trial run by researchers from the National Institutes of Health in Maryland produced an immune response and developed anti-Ebola antibodies, the NIH said Wednesday.
None suffered serious side effects, although two people developed a brief fever within a day of vaccination.
The vaccine is being developed by the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. The process has been fast-tracked in light of the current catastrophic Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which has claimed more than 5,000 lives.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/27/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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ReplyDeleteThis first study to explore the influence of obesity on UC showed that high BMI had rather a favorable effect on the prognosis, whereas low BMI pointed to a more severe course of the disease.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25392256
PMID: 25392256
The effect of body weight on the severity and clinical course of ulcerative colitis. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Obesity is a risk factor for inflammatory diseases such as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, pancreatitis, and Crohn's disease. The effect of being overweight or obese on the severity and clinical course of ulcerative colitis (UC) was assessed in a....
Objectives: Obesity is associated with a proinflammatory state that may be involved in the etiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), for which there are plausible biological mechanisms. Our aim was to perform the first prospective cohort study investigating if there is an association between obesity and the development of incident IBD.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/782607
(CNN) -- The people on the front lines of fighting the Ebola epidemic are Time Magazine's "Person of the Year."
ReplyDeleteThey're "the ones who answered the call," the magazine said on its website Wednesday morning.
The finalists for Time Person of the Year 2014 The finalists for Time Person of the Year 2014
Among the others considered: Ferguson protesters, Vladimir Putin, and Roger Goodell.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/10/world/time-person-of-the-year/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
ReplyDeleteThere's a jingle on Wall Street today. No, not Jingle Bells. It's the sound of money and optimism returning.
The Dow ended 63 points higher, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq also finished solidly higher (around 0.5%).
Thursday was a big psychological test for the market as oil fell below $60 a barrel for the first time since July 2009. It rattled traders. The Dow had been up above 200 points, but it quickly fell back.
There's two ways to read this news, and investors are clearly conflicted.
On the one hand, cheap gas is acting like a tax cut for consumers. On average, households have about $500 more to spend thanks to lower prices at the pump. While some will save that extra cash, others are likely to spend, which will boost the retail sector and overall economy.
Related: 6 stocks that look sexy for 2015
But the downside to under $59 oil is the cutbacks in the energy sector, especially natural gas, which has been a growth engine for the U.S. in recent years. Major producers like BP and ConocoPhillip (COP)have announced cutbacks to exploration and jobs.
"Clearly, the velocity of the decline at minimum is very unsettling to investors, and raises uncertainty on many economic and market valuation assumptions," says Tim Anderson, Managing Director of MND Partners.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/11/investing/stocks-market-dow-surge/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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ReplyDeleteA global glut of oil will persist next year, putting further pressure on prices and raising the risk of unrest in some producing countries.
That's the stark warning from the Paris-based International Energy Agency, which on Friday cut its forecast for global demand growth in 2015. It now sees demand growing by less than 1% next year.
Oil prices have already fallen by more than 40% in six months, but there's little sign of that stimulating demand yet, or constraining production enough to remove excess supply.
"Oil price drops are sometimes described as a 'tax cut' and a boon for the economy, but this time round their stimulus effect may be modest," said the agency, which monitors energy market trends for 29 of the world's wealthiest nations.
U.S. crude prices fell again on Friday to around $59 a barrel.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/12/investing/oil-prices-iea-unrest/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
(CNN) -- Nations working on a global treaty to combat climate change and handle its ill effects have come to a basic draft agreement at conference in Lima, Peru.
ReplyDeleteThe elements hammered out in two weeks by about 190 countries at the 20th Conference of Parties (COP20) will serve as the basis for an international climate treaty to be signed in Paris next year, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change said Sunday.
That treaty, which is supposed to detail nations' responsibilities in the fight against climate change, will come into effect in 2020.
The Lima draft announced Sunday determines that developed countries and developing nations will take on differing responsibilities in the fight against global warming "in light of different national circumstances."
The details of those responsibilities are to be determined later.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/14/world/americas/peru-climate-change-draft-agreement/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Research has shown that music has a profound effect on your body and psyche. In fact, there’s a growing field of health care known as music therapy, which uses music to heal. Those who practice music therapy are finding a benefit in using music to help cancer patients, children with ADD, and others, and even hospitals are beginning to use music and music therapy to help with pain management, to help ward off depression, to promote movement, to calm patients, to ease muscle tension, and for many other benefits that music and music therapy can bring. This is not surprising, as music affects the body and mind in many powerful ways. The following are some of effects of music, which help to explain the effectiveness of music therapy:
ReplyDeletehttp://stress.about.com/od/tensiontamers/a/music_therapy.htm
Music therapists work with a variety of physical, emotional, and psychological symptoms. Music therapy is often used in cancer treatment to help reduce pain, anxiety, and nausea caused by chemotherapy. Some people believe music therapy may be a beneficial addition to the health care of children with cancer by promoting social interaction and cooperation.
ReplyDeleteThere is evidence that music therapy can reduce high blood pressure, rapid heart beat, depression, and sleeplessness. There are no claims music therapy can cure cancer or other diseases, but medical experts do believe it can reduce some symptoms, aid healing, improve physical movement, and enrich a patient’s quality of life.
http://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatmentsandsideeffects/complementaryandalternativemedicine/mindbodyandspirit/music-therapy
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) -- Samuel Yaga, a mechanic, was making a routine repair on a client's car when his phone rang. It was a phone call that would change his life forever.
ReplyDelete"I was called in the morning by my elder brother notifying me of an attack on the school where my daughter was schooling," he said.
Samuel's blood went cold as his brother continued, telling him that some of the girls had been abducted by Boko Haram.
Samuel knew only too well the vicious and brutal nature of the terrorist group: just a few months before this, Boko Haram had attacked his village in northeastern Nigeria.
Armed men forced him out of his house and one of them pointed a gun to his head. By a sheer miracle, unexplainable even to Samuel, one of the militants intervened, and his life was spared.
Their entire village was razed to the ground and so Samuel moved his family to Chibok and enrolled his eldest daughter Sarah into the Government Secondary School so that she could sit for her final high school exam.
He chose Chibok because not only was it his ancestral home and he had relatives there but also because it had no history of Boko Haram attacks. He felt it was safe -- until now.
Later in the day Samuel's brother phoned him again. "Then before sunset he called me again, and informed me that my daughter was part of those that were taken by Boko Haram."
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/23/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram-leposo/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
London (CNN)The condition of a health worker battling Ebola in London has stabilized, but she remains in critical condition, Britain's health secretary told lawmakers Monday.
ReplyDeleteOn December 29, Pauline Cafferkey, 39, of Glasgow, Scotland, became the first person to be diagnosed with the virus on UK soil, after returning from Sierra Leone the day before. On Saturday, the London hospital where she is being treated said that her condition had deteriorated over two days to critical.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/05/world/uk-ebola-nurse/index.html
Thanks to China, Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund, Jim Yong Kim of the World Bank and Takehiko Nakao of the Asian Development Bank may no longer have much meaningful work to do.
ReplyDeleteBeijing's move to bail out Russia, on top of its recent aid for Venezuela and Argentina, signals the death of the post-war Bretton Woods world. It’s also marks the beginning of the end for America's linchpin role in the global economy and Japan's influence in Asia.
What is China's new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank if not an ADB killer? If Japan, ADB's main benefactor, won't share the presidency with Asian peers, Beijing will just use its deep pockets to overpower it. Lagarde's and Kim’s shops also are looking at a future in which crisis-wracked governments call Beijing before Washington.
China stepping up its role as lender of last resort upends an economic development game that's been decades in the making. The IMF, World Bank and ADB are bloated, change-adverse institutions. When Ukraine received a $17 billion IMF-led bailout this year it was about shoring up a geopolitically important economy, not geopolitical blackmail.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-25/china-steps-in-as-worlds-new-bank
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ReplyDeleteScientists at Oxford University have launched the first clinical trial of a new Ebola vaccine.
The first of 72 healthy volunteers have already received the initial dose of a drug researchers hope could put an end to the worst Ebola outbreak in the history.
Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, owned by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), is developing the vaccine together with Bavarian Nordic.
The company said it could begin large scale trials by May, and make 2 million vaccinations available later this year. The drug does not contain the virus so there's no risk of catching Ebola as a result of immunization.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/06/news/ebola-vaccine-trial/index.html
The last two months have not been kind to clean energy stocks. Most commentators attribute the weakness to declining oil prices and the Republicans' strong showing in the midterm elections.
ReplyDeleteWhatever the cause, my 10 Clean Energy Stocks for 2014 model portfolio was dragged into a loss for the year where it had previously looked to return a small gain. A large part of the decline was in the dollar's strength. Measured in local currency, the average stock was flat, but the 8 percent decline in the Canadian dollar, 12 percent decline in the Euro, and 11 percent decline in the South African rand combined to pull the portfolio down 4.5 percent in dollar terms.
My benchmark Powershares Wilderhill Clean Energy Index (PBW) also suffered, ending the year down 14.5 percent, even though the the broader market of small cap stocks gained 5.4 percent for the year (as measured by the Russell 2000 index ETF, IWM.)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2015/01/ten-clean-energy-stocks-past-performance-and-predictions-for-2015?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-January7-2015
(CNN)When it's completed, it will be so large as to be visible from space.
ReplyDeleteIf it succeeds, it will create a top ecological attraction, reduce economic hardships and help modernize a community.
It's the Giant Flag of South Africa, and it's an ambitious project by almost any measure. Located in the Camdeboo Municipality of Karoo, an arid region between Cape Town and Johannesburg, it will transform a patch of desert into a living national flag spanning about 163 acres, the size of 66 soccer fields.
Some 2.5 million red, yellow, blue and green desert plants, including cacti and spekboom, will be arranged in a pattern like that of South Africa's flag. The flag's black triangular area will contain a 4-megawatt solar-panel field, generating much-needed electricity for the region.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/31/tech/cnn-10-ideas-flag-south-africa/index.html
The threat that infectious diseases pose to man and animals is a major challenge to humanity in the 21st century! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2787987/the-world-s-deadliest-outbreaks-interactive-map-shows-human-cost-flu-bubonic-plague-ebola-globe-541.html
ReplyDeleteInfectious diseases appears to be more rampant in third world countries. This may be due to the lack of awareness and adequate medical facilities.
ReplyDeletePartially true! However, infections that were previously prevalent in tropical regions, examples dengue, malaria etc, are now re-emerging in temperate regions. It is also important to keep in mind, that airborne infections such as influenza are prevalent worldwide.
DeleteObesity is a complex disorder involving an excessive amount of body fat. Obesity isn't just a cosmetic concern. It increases your risk of diseases and health problems such as heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure.
ReplyDeleteBeing extremely obese means you are especially likely to have health problems related to your weight.
The good news is that even modest weight loss can improve or prevent the health problems associated with obesity. Dietary changes, increased physical activity and behavior changes can help you lose weight. Prescription medications or weight-loss surgery also may be options for treating obesity.
Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have a negative effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems. In Western countries, people are considered obese when their body mass index (BMI), a measurement obtained by dividing a person's weight by the square of the person's height, exceeds 30 kg/m2, with the range 25-30 kg/m2 defined as overweight. Some East Asian countries use stricter criteria.
ReplyDeleteObesity increases the likelihood of various diseases, particularly heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis. Obesity is most commonly caused by a combination of excessive food energy intake, lack of physical activity, and genetic susceptibility, although a few cases are caused primarily by genes, endocrine disorders, medications, or psychiatric illness. Evidence to support the view that some obese people eat little yet gain weight due to a slow metabolism is limited. On average, obese people have a greater energy expenditure than their thin counterparts due to the energy required to maintain an increased body mass.
This paper presents the evidence for outbreaks of a new type of disease (presumed to be immune based)in the UK. The outbreaks are characterised by a temporary reversal in the decline in age standardized mortality and among other effects have a particular effect on increased death among women from vascular system diseases.
ReplyDeleteSee: http://www.hcaf.biz/emergencyadmissions.html
http://www.smu.edu.in/content/dam/manipal/smu/documents/Journal%20Issue%203/A%20New%20Type%20of%20Infectious%20Outbreak.pdf
Let us keep in mind that climate change could lead to outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases! and hence immune based diseases.
ReplyDeleteThe time series for outbreaks goes back to the 1950's and probably earlier. Probably unlikely foor climate change to be a major factor.
Burning fossil fuels puts carbon into the atmosphere. Other smaller sources include industrial processes such as cement manufacture and natural gas flaring. Fossil fuels provide most of the energy that supports human transportation, electricity production, heating and cooling of buildings, and industrial activity. Oil used to be the dominant fossil fuel, but as of 2008, coal is dominant (40% to oil’s 37%).
http://carboncycle.aos.wisc.edu/fossil-fuels/
The use of fossil fuels as an energy source started before the 1950s by a few decades.
As a matter of fact the industrial revolution powered by fossil fuels began more than a century ago!
ReplyDeleteEver since the Industrial Revolution took off in the 18th century, vast quantities of fossil fuels have been used to power the economy and deliver unprecedented affluence to huge numbers of people. As we all know, fossil fuels are organic matter made from the remains of flora and fauna subjected to immense pressure and heat deep within the Earth over millions of years. Petroleum, coal, and natural gas are major fossil fuels.
https://www.mhi-global.com/discover/earth/issue/history/history.html
At 4:50 a.m. at the Kasanka National Park in northern Zambia, tourists watch from a platform in a tree as the sound of millions of wings accompanies the sunrise.
ReplyDeleteAbout 10 million straw-colored fruit bats are returning from a night of feeding, some flying as far as 100 kilometers (62 miles) to feast on berries and figs. The animals may hold a clue to finding the cure for the Ebola disease that’s killed more than 8,000 people in west Africa in the biggest-ever outbreak, according to Aaron Mweene, professor at the University of Zambia’s veterinary medicine school. That outbreak, which is yet to be quelled, has been blamed on bats.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-11/ebola-clue-may-lurk-in-10-million-bats-in-zambian-fig-trees.html
Ebola Clue May Lurk in 10 Million Bats in Zambian Fig Tree
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-11/ebola-clue-may-lurk-in-10-million-bats-in-zambian-fig-trees.html
San Diego, Calif. — In Japan, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology has been a center of attention ever since the nation’s government launched a very rich feed-in tariff (FIT) program. Although they are not getting the spotlight, there are also several unique biomass projects in Japan, which fully utilize locally-available resources such as noodles and oranges, without directly competing with consumable food production.
ReplyDeleteUdon Noodles to Create Udon Noodles
Kagawa prefecture is well known as a home of “sanuki” udon — square shaped noodles made by kneading together wheat flour, salt, and water. Sanuki udon noodles have a strong “koshi” (an al dente or firm-bite consistency). While many people enjoy and consume udon noodles daily, the prefecture faced a problem with a massive amount of udon noodle scraps from noodle manufacturers and unsellable noodles at local noodle shops.
Chiyoda Seisakujo, an industry equipment manufacturer located in Takamatsu city, the capital of Kagawa prefecture, has been developing biogas plants since 2004. Two prefecture-owned technology research and development centers approached the company, asking to utilize udon noodle waste as an ethanol feedstock.
In 2012, the company developed a prototype bioethanol plant on its property. The company collected udon noodle scraps from a large local noodle manufacturer. “With 1,500 kilograms (3,307 pounds) of udon scraps, we can produce about 200 litters (53 gallons) of bioethanol,” said Testuo Ozaki, a representative at Chiyoda Seisakujo.
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2015/01/what-do-noodles-and-oranges-have-in-common-japanese-bioenergy?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-January14-2015
URGENT MESSAGE TO BE PASSED ON TO FAMILIES AND FRIENDS IN NIGERIA. MAY GOD SAVE OUR COUNTRY FROM EVIL DEVICES. AMEN.
ReplyDeleteFrom Kemi Filani Blog; How a female passenger disappeared in a commercial Lagos Bus yesterday. (Must Read) This is an eye-opener for us all! Please DO NOT collect money from any passenger when you enter a bus to be passed to the driver or conductor. Something bizarre but true happened at Ikotun Lagos yesterday at around 6:40pm and it's a great lesson for everyone. Read the mail I got below: "Kemi, kindly help warn people o. My aunt just came back and she is shaking seriously for she witnessed a strange incident some minutes ago.
She boarded a bus from her office to drop at Ikotun yesterday evening and unfortunately the bus had no conductor so one woman - one of them (passengers) decided to play the good Samaritan by helping the driver to collect the transport fare from passengers.
Everyone co-operated and paid except one old man like that. Eventually he brought out his N50 and gave the woman to give the driver. Immediately this woman collected the money, she started shaking like someone that had been hit with 'warapa'. The shaking got so bad that the driver had to pack and everyone started shouting on the old man to undo whatever he had done to the innocent woman after all it was after she collected the money from him that she began shaking.
The old man now said they should let him rub the woman's breast so that the shaking can stop.
While rubbing her breast, they both disappeared like film trick. Everybody in the bus shouted and scattered, even the driver fled. You needed to have seen the commotion. Please help warn Nigerians to be careful.
The kidnappers keep devising new methods everyday. Only God knows where that woman is now".
Strange!
DeleteISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ) is the world’s largest, richest terrorist organizations, ever. It’s a self-sustaining enterprise that runs mainly on extortion and crime networks, hostages, oil, donations… According to Martin Chulov; ISIS has grown from a ragtag band of extremists to perhaps the most cash-rich and capable terror group in the world with a $2 billion jihadist network. The scale of ISIS resources is unprecedented: A terrorist organization while ruthless, but still able to occupy large areas of territory, quickly… for example; it controls several major cities in Iraq, which it occupied in just three days, it holds parts of several other cities and continues to menace still other cities throughout Iraq and Syria: It’s quite an accomplishment… According to Michael Knights; some estimates of ISIS’s wealth are overstated, for example; the $2 billion estimate that’s been floating around is too high, but that’s not to say ISIS isn’t raking in a fair amount of cash– between $2 million and $4 million per day… ISIS is a wealthy terrorist movement or better yet an effective financial enterprise, which it run very much like a large-scale Mafia type protection rackets business across much of Iraq.
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Nigeria was on Tuesday awarded $8.1 million in funding for a final push to eradicate polio, as it nears six months without a case of the disease.
ReplyDeleteRotary International, which is working with the World Health Organization (WHO) to wipe out the virus, said the money would go towards vaccination, research and surveillance programmes.
Nigeria is one of three countries worldwide where polio is considered endemic. The two others are Pakistan and Afghanistan.
But there is concern about reinfections in war-torn countries such as Somalia and Syria because of disruption to immunisation programmes.
The last case of the polio virus in Nigeria was on July 24 in the northern state of Kano. Last year, the country recorded a total of six cases, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
That compares with 53 in 2013, the group said on its website, polioeradication.org.
“Nigeria has managed an incredible feat,” the head of Rotary’s polio campaign in Nigeria, Tunju Funsho, said in a statement.
http://swankpharm.com/2015/01/21/2988/
Nigeria has been rated one of the worst governed countries in Africa based on the 2014 Ibrahim Index of African Governance [IIAG], which was released on Monday.
ReplyDeleteIn the report, obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, Nigeria is rated 45.8 per cent lower than the African average (51.5 per cent) and ranked 37th out of 52 in the overall governance scale.
The country scored lower than the regional average for West Africa which stands at 52.2 percent and ranked 12th out of 15 in the region.
Other countries that made it to the top of the list included Botswana which is rated the third best governed country in the continent with 76.2 percent and South Africa which comes fourth with 73.3 percent.
Ghana is rated 7th; Rwanda 11th; Benin Republic 18th; Egypt 26th; Mali 28th; Niger, 29th; Liberia; 31st; Cameroun 34th and Togo 36th; all ahead of far more endowed Nigeria.
With a population of 173.6 million and population growth rate pegged at 2.8 percent, Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, is put at $3013.3 USD, while inflation and unemployment rates stand at 8.5 percent and 13.7 percent, respectively.
Nigeria also received appalling ratings in such categories such as safety and the rule of law where it is rated 44th with 38.1 per cent, 32nd in the rule of law with 41.0 percent and 30th in accountability with 36.6 percent.
The country got its lowest rating in personal safety where it is ranked 49th with 16.5 per cent and second lowest in national security where it is ranked 48th with 58.2 per cent.
Under participation and human rights, the country is rated 26th with 46.9 per cent, 31th on sustainable economic opportunity with 43.3 per cent and 34th in human development with 53.0 per cent.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/168873-nigeria-one-of-africas-worst-governed-countries-mo-ibrahim-governance-index.html
CNN)California health officials said Wednesday there are 79 confirmed measles cases in the state.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the California Department of Public Health website, 52 of those cases are linked to an outbreak at Disneyland.
There are four confirmed cases in Riverside County, where the Desert Sands Unified School District told 66 students -- who have either not been vaccinated for measles or can't show proof -- that they need to stay home.
CNN affiliate KESQ reported that one student at Palm Desert High School is suspected of having had measles. The student has been cleared to return to class but health officials are still trying to determine if the student actually had measles.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/28/health/california-measles-outbreak/index.html
High time' for medical marijuana in Germany
ReplyDeleteThe federal government wants to make cannabis more accessible to sick Germans as a means for pain relief, according to the country's drug representative. 'High time,' say supporters of legalization.
http://www.dw.de/high-time-for-medical-marijuana-in-germany/a-18231922
The most frequently report-ed adverse effects are mental slowness, impaired reaction times, and sometimes accentuation of anxiety. Serious psychological disorders have been reported with high levels of intoxication. The relationship between poor school performance and early, regular, and frequent cannabis use seems to be a vicious circle, in which each sustains the other. Many studies have focused on the long-term effects of cannabis on memory, but their results have been inconclusive. There do not * About fifteen longitudinal cohort studies that examined the influence of cannabis on depressive thoughts or suicidal ideation have yielded conflicting results and are inconclusive. Several longitudinal cohort studies have shown a statistical association between psychotic illness and self-reported cannabis use. However, the results are difficult to interpret due to methodological problems, particularly the unknown reliability of self-reported data. It has not been possible to establish a causal relationship in either direction, because of these methodological limitations. In Australia, the marked increase in cannabis use has not been accompanied by an increased incidence of schizophrenia. On the basis of the available data, we cannot reach firm conclusions on whether or not cannabis use causes psychosis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21462790
ReplyDeleteCNN)Down syndrome, with all its promise and challenges, has never been more visible: Jamie Brewer, an actress with Down syndrome, just walked the catwalk at New York Fashion Week. A video of a girl with Down syndrome singing a John Legend song went viral, receiving 6 million page views and counting. People were so moved by the story of a father choosing his son with Down syndrome over his marriage that they donated over $500,000 to his care (although the father's story has now been called into question).
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What Is It?
ReplyDeleteIf you were hoping that African mango supplements would help with weight loss, you should know that the research on this is thin.
Irvingia gabonensis (IG) is the Latin name of the tree grown in Central and West Africa that produces a fruit similar to a mango and nicknamed African mango, wild mango, dika nut, or bush mango.
In areas where IG grows, its flesh is widely eaten. But it's the seed or nut (fresh or dried) that contains the supposedly powerful ingredients. Sold almost exclusively online, the seed extract comes in powder, liquid, and capsules.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/african-mango-supplements
African Mango
ReplyDeleteScientific Name(s): Irvingia gabonensis (Aubry-Lecomte ex Ororke) Baillon. Family: Irvingiaceae. Older references may list family Simarubaceae.
Common Name(s): African mango , African wild mango , irvingia , dika ( dikanut , dikabread tree ), odika , ogbono , sweet bush mango , bush mango , iba-tree
Uses
Research on African mango shows beneficial effects for diabetes and obesity, as well as analgesic, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and GI activity. Ethnomedicinal treatments utilize the bark, kernels, leaves, or roots for a variety of ailments. Numerous studies exist on the potential industrial application of African mango in food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
http://www.drugs.com/npp/african-mango.html
The World Health Organization said in a recent report that there is "no evidence of airborne transmission," and it advises routine contact precautions, and airborne precautions only when performing procedures on patients that may generate aerosols.
ReplyDeleteYet MERS has been isolated from the air before. In South Korea's index patient, the virus was found in the poorly ventilated hospital room's air conditioning unit, raising the likelihood that airborne transmission played a role in its rapid spread inside that hospital, where the most cases are reported.
The CDC recommends hospital workers use airborne precautions due to that uncertainty, regardless of whether performing a procedure or not. It also recommends MERS patients wear face masks to prevent spread due to aerosolization of droplets when coughing.
http://edition.cnn.com/…/op…/vox-mers-south-korea/index.html
Seoul, South Korea (CNN)Seven new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS virus, have been confirmed in South Korea, the country's Ministry of Health said Sunday. Fourteen people died from the virus, 10 have recovered after being infected and 121 are under treatment, the ministry said.
ReplyDeleteHealth officials this weekend said the outbreak was slowing, but additional cases were expected.
Exactly a month ago, a South Korean man walked into a hospital complaining of a cough and fever.
The 68-year-old patient, who had just returned from four Middle Eastern countries, went from facility to facility before getting properly diagnosed. He would become "patient zero" of the country's outbreak.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/13/asia/south-korea-mers-outbreak/index.html
CNN)Um Haleema was just 16 years old when she was kidnapped. Her first few months in captivity, at the hands of militant group Boko Haram, were enough to break anyone's spirit -- let alone that of a teenage girl so far from home.
ReplyDeleteShe was captured trying to escape, along with three of her friends, as Boko Haram burned and ransacked her village.
During her captivity, Um Haleema was forced to watch men, women and children slaughtered. She was forced into marriage. Forced to wait on a "husband" she hated. But while she watched, she says she was also waiting -- for a chance to break free. And after six long months, it finally came.
http://edition.cnn.com/…/boko-haram-pregnant-vic…/index.html
(CNN)Clinical science is catching up with the West African Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 11,000 people since last year in countries such as Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
ReplyDeleteAn experimental Ebola vaccine -- rVSV-EBOV -- is proving highly effective against the deadly virus. And yet, almost everything that is going right with this historic, global-health initiative stands in direct contrast to the fear-mongering and anti-government sentiment we've seen recently from domestic anti-vaccinationists such as actor Jim Carrey.
As parental protests surged in April against a California bill that strictly limits childhood vaccination waivers, a coalition of governments, private industry and charitable organizations had already launched an Ebola vaccine trial in Guinea.
Now, the researchers -- reporting with lightning-fast speed on vaccination data as recently as July 20 -- have unveiled a stunning success: 100% protection against the Ebola virus, according to the criteria laid out in the trial design.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/04/opinions/vox-ebola-vaccine/index.html
In the last 24 hours, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has reported ten new cases of MERS in the capital city of Riyadh, and one death from the virus. Those numbers follow reports of nine new cases yesterday, along with two deaths. According to Helen Branswell, one of WIRED’s favorite infectious disease reporters, the state hasn’t seen that many new infections in a day since the height of the MERS outbreak last year.
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Saudi Arabia has reported 18 more MERS-CoV cases since Sep 4, 15 of them in Riyadh, and the numbers of patients infected with the virus in hospitals in both Saudi Arabia and Jordan continue to grow, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest updates.
ReplyDeleteOngoing MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) activity in the capital cities of the two countries during the lead-up to the Hajj pilgrimage, which begins in 2 weeks in Saudi Arabia, is raising concerns that international visitors might carry the virus back to their home countries.
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Study says over-the-counter products can help contain virus outbreak.
ReplyDeleteThe fatality rate in humans for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) has risen from 36 per cent to 42.5 per cent. Mers deaths now stand at 528 including three confirmed deaths in Saudi Arabia on September 7.
But results from a recent study have highlighted the potential of several over-the-counter products which could help contain the current virus outbreak - and they cost as little as Dh20.
The study, which was conducted based on the latest EU test standard for virus testing, investigated the efficacy of three Betadine povidone iodine (PVPI) formulations against Mers virus. Results of the skin cleanser, surgical scrub and mouthwash showed a fast virucidal activity against the virus, with a 99.99 per cent kill rate.
Released for the first time in the Middle East on Tuesday, virologist and lead investigator of the study, Dr Maren Eggers, said after a short application time of just 15 seconds, the virus is killed.
At present, there is no specific antiviral or vaccine to treat Mers. According to vice-president of MundiPharma for the Middle East and Africa region, Dr Ashraf Allam, this makes prevention "so important".
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ReplyDeleteThe Nigerian Army said Tuesday it usually find condoms, hard drugs and sex-enhancing drugs in camps captured from Boko Haram insurgents by its troops.
The spokesperson for the Army, Sani Usman, said the findings underlined the military’s belief that most Boko Haram militants were not grounded in Islam and were not driven by Islamic ideology.
Mr. Usman, a colonel, said a lot of insurgents so far arrested could not even recite the Quoran, the holy book of Muslims.
He said those arrested by troops of Nigerian Army’s 3rd Division Tuesday turned out to be suppliers of hard drugs and other stimulants to terrorists.
They were nabbed between Depchi and Geidam, Geidam Local Government Area in northern part of Yobe State, he said.
Mr. Usman added, “The arrested persons were also engaged in the supply of fuel in addition to hard drugs such as Cannabis (Indian Hemp), Chlorofone substance (AKA Madaran suck and die) and Tramol, amongst others.
“You will recall that sometimes ago we reported that ironically most of the Boko Haram terrorists captured by Nigerian military cannot read the Holy Qur’an, some of them cannot even recite the first chapter- Suratuh Al-Fatiha and yet they claimed they wanted to establish an ‘Islamic State’.
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In what may go down in history as the textbook example of how dangerous an unregulated free market can be when a company decides it wants to be greedy, Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York hiked the cost of a powerful drug used to treat people with life-threatening illnesses like AIDS and cancer by over 5,000 percent overnight. Why? Because it will make the start-up company’s investors rich – and there is nothing patients and doctors could do about it.
ReplyDeleteDaraprim is used to treat a nasty parasite that attacks those suffering from ailments that have compromised their immune systems. As such, it can be a vital treatment in keeping those patients alive and comfortable. The price for Daraprim had been the costly, but not unaffordable, at $13.50 per pill, but health experts and patients alike were shocked to discover that the sole company that manufactures the drug shot the price up to $750 per pill in one day.
The change came just a month after Turing Pharmaceuticals acquired the “exclusive rights” to manufacture the drug, and did what any company would do when it had a monopoly over a product customers needed: Jack up the price and use patience suffering as leverage to get them to pay the higher price. If that sounds like something you’d see in a tech company and not from people who presumably got into the business to provide people with medicine, that’s because Turing Pharmaceutical is more of the former. As The New York Times highlighted, its CEO is a 32-year-old former hedge fund manager who doesn’t see what the big deal is.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/20/company-buys-patent-to-60-year-old-cancer-drug-increases-price-from-13-50-to-750-overnight/
URUMQI – In another crackdown on religious freedoms, China has forced the imams of eastern Muslim majority district of Xinjiang to dance in the street, and swear to an oath that they will not teach religion to children as well telling them that prayer is harmful to the soul.
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Purifying dirty water is a notoriously difficult and expensive process - even in California, financial pressures affect what can be done to tackle the severe drought in the area. Those in developing nations have far less money to play around with, which is why a newly invented and ultra-cheap water cleaning process is looking so promising.
ReplyDeleteDeveloped by a team of researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt, the procedure uses a desalination technique called pervaporation to remove the salt from sea water and make it drinkable. Specially made synthetic membranes are used to filter out large salt particles and impurities so they can be evaporated away, and then the rest is heated up, vapourised, and condensed back into clean water.
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has decorated 2,903 gallant soldiers currently fighting the Boko Haram terrorists with medals in Mubi, Adamawa. Buratai told the soldiers at the 28 Task Force Brigade Headquarters, Mubi, on Tuesday that the decoration was part of the military tradition to motivate its personnel at the warfront.
ReplyDeleteHe said the essence of his visit to Mubi was to inspect, assess the performance of personnel and motivate them in order to ensure the realisation of December deadline. “I am in Mubi together with some key military personnel to see and get firsthand operational requirements of the Brigade and its affiliated units as well as to identify challenges facing them.
“I have been briefed and I am happy, the Brigade and its units are doing very well, I highly commended their efforts,’’ Burutai said. He reaffirmed that their sacrifices for protecting the country’s sovereignty from enemies like Boko Haram terrorists and other evils atrocities would never be elapsed.
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Scientists generically call the repulsive form of gravity "dark energy," but there are several models of it. One is Einstein's cosmological constant, which, as the name suggests, is a field of constant energy density throughout the universe. Another idea is called quintessence, which has the proper repulsive properties but can change over time.
ReplyDeleteExactly which model is correct has yet to be determined, although there is a vibrant ongoing experimental program that is trying to figure it out. The biggest current effort is called the Dark Energy Survey, which uses a 570 megapixel camera and the 4-meter Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
By studying distant supernovae and measuring the positions and properties of hundreds of millions of galaxies and hundreds of thousands of galaxy clusters, the DES collaboration hopes to shed light on the nature of dark energy.
If we understand dark energy, we may well be able to answer a profound question: How will the universe end?
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