The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Olaokun Soyinka has revealed that  no fewer than 5,224 accident victims were rescued by the Ogun State Ambulance Service (OGSAS) across the state in a rescue mission of 811 accident cases involving 1,257 vehicles in the last one year. Mr Soyinka gave this statistic during the Ministerial Press Briefing as part of activities to mark the second year anniversary of the I ...

Sharing a bed with a newborn increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome fivefold, research claims. The risk applies even if parents avoid tobacco, alcohol and drugs - other factors firmly linked to cot deaths. The BMJ Open research compared nearly 1,500 cot deaths with a control group of more than 4,500 parents. Current guidance in the UK is that parents should decide where their baby sleeps, but sa ...

A 66-year-old Tunisian man has died from new coronavirus, a strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year, after a visit to Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The man, a diabetic, died in hospital in the city of Monastir, ministry spokesman Ibrahim Labassi said. It was the first death in Tunisia from the virus. "Tests showed that his two sons were infected by the same virus and ...

A pair of conjoined twins are recovering in Peru nearly a month after they were successfully separated, and doctors say they will be able to develop normally and live a full life. Shadya and Shandell were born connected at the abdomen on February 26. The sisters shared a liver, but were able to undergo the separation surgery because they did not share a biliary tract and each had their own hearts and other ...

The amount of time asthma patients spend soaking up the sun may have an impact on the illness, researchers have suggested. A team at King's College London said low levels of vitamin D, which is made by the body in sunlight, was linked to a worsening of symptoms. Its latest research shows the vitamin calms an over-active part of the immune system in asthma. However, treating patients with vitamin D has not y ...

The Federal Ministry of Health has called on Nigerians and government at all levels to support efforts for the eradication of Guinea Worm in a bid to aid the certification of Nigeria as a Guinea Worm free country. This call was made by the national coordinator of the Nigeria Guinea Worm Eradication Programme, (NIGEP), Mrs Ifeoma Anagbogu  in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital at a sensitization programme on the d ...

The long-awaited, controversial new edition of the bible of psychiatry can be characterized by many numbers: its 947 pages, its $199 price tag, its more than 300 maladies (from "dependent personality disorder" and "voyeuristic disorder" to "delayed ejaculation," "kleptomania" and "intermittent explosive disorder"), each limning the potential woes of being human. But to the psychiatrist who shepherded the to ...

An overworked Chinese advertising employee died of a heart attack in his office aged just 24. Li Yuan had been working overtime until 11pm every night at the Ogilvy & Mather China offices in Beijing in the month before he died. At around 5pm on Monday he stood up, cried out in pain before collapsing onto the ground, according to a report in the Yangzi Evening News. He was rushed to the Peking Union Medi ...

Using a mobile phone can give you high blood pressure - perhaps due to the stress certain conversations can cause, new research suggests. Researchers found that talking on a mobile phone triggers significant increases in the blood pressure that corresponds to the 'surge' that occurs with each heartbeat. This is the number which doctors pay most attention to when assessing a patient's risk of cardiovascular ...

After decades of using one-size-fits-all therapies to combat cancer, doctors are using new tools to help decide when their patients can skip chemotherapy or other harsh treatments. An approach to oncology that has been in place for decades is beginning to yield to an arsenal of long-term clinical studies, genetic tests and novel drugs that target cancer cells and their infrastructure. "What is happening is ...