Superbugs could kill a person every three seconds by 2050 — Reports

A failure to tackle antimicrobial resistance would put 10 million lives at risk each year by 2050—that’s one person every three seconds.Antibiotics underpin modern medicine. They’re essential for vital medical procedures and treatments for humans and animals. But antibiotics have slowly been losing their effectiveness because of their overuse and misuse.

The Best Thing to Eat Before and After Your Workout

Whether you’re eating for endurance or snacking for strength training, it’s not always clear what is best to put into your body. Moreover, “what’s healthy on a regular basis is not necessarily a good choice for the race course, or even for a workout,” explains Barbara Lewin, RD, a sports nutritionist who works with professional athletes. No need to worry: Follow these expert guidelines on how to build and time snacks and you’ll power through with high-octane energy.

Early Signs of Mental Illness

Mental illness is one of the most stigmatised illnesses in the world, especially in Africa. This attitude has serious social implications for affected persons. Many have been denied marriage and other employment opportunities even when they got better.

Man Receives His First penis after Battle With Cancer

A Boston hospital has carried out the first-ever penis transplant in the United States on a 64-year-old man who had suffered partial amputation due to cancer.

How Mushrooms Could Treat Depression

Treating depression is a major challenge, since among the millions of people affected worldwide, only one in five tends to respond well to antidepressants. And for many people who are eventually helped by drugs, it can take months, even years of cycling through the various medications to find the one that works best. In the mean time, their depression persists, and sometimes worsens.

30% of Female Doctors Have Been Sexually Harassed-Reports

Sexual discrimination and harassment in medicine and science is an all-too common occurrence, as evidenced by recent news stories of men in positions of power making unwanted sexual advances toward young doctors, and scientific journal reviewers requesting men be added to an all-female team of researchers. Now, a new study is putting numbers to the issue, finds that 30% of successful female doctors say they’ve been sexually harassed.

Your hair style may cause hair loss – Study

Your hair style may cause hair loss – StudyCertain hair styles may cause hair loss a new research has suggested.19 studies which were reviewed by a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore and published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, found a relationship between scalp-pulling hair styles and gradual hair loss (traction alopecia).

FG Debunks Rumour of Outbreak of Steven Johnson’s Syndrome

The Minister for Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has debunked media publications that there was a recent outbreak of the Steven Johnson’s Syndrome (SJS), which was alleged to have killed at least one person in the country recently.

This Family of giants have a combined height of 30 FEET

Bianca Brouwers and her daughters Leah, Emma and Lexi have a rare condition called Marfan syndrome which makes their limbs long and they dwarf their brother With a combined height of almost 30 FEET, a mother and her three daughters are believed to be one of Britain’s tallest families.

New deadly disease breaks out in Nigeria

The Federal Government on Friday alerted Nigerians to the outbreak of a killer disease known as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome in the country.