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Chinese Doctor Ling Zhipei Performs Remote Brain Surgery On Patient 3,000km Away.

Mar 19, 2019 793

     A Chinese doctor, Dr. Ling Zhipei has performed the first ever brain surgery over a 5G mobile network, according to Chinese media. A patient with Parkinson's disease allegedly had an implant put in their brain by a doctor... Read More

South-south Leads In HIV Prevalence, Northwest Lowest.

Mar 15, 2019 956

     The South-south geopolitical zone has the highest HIV prevalence among adults age 15 to 64 years in the country with 3.1 percent, while the Northwest had the lowest prevalence rate with 0.6 percent. This was disclosed... Read More

DR Congo Ebola Outbreak: Baby survives after being infected at six days old, becomes world's youngest Ebola survivor

Dec 14, 2018 2153

A baby girl who was admitted to an Ebola treatment centre just six days after birth has now recovered from the virus, health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have announced.The baby is now the world's youngest survivor of what... Read More

Uzbekistan declared a malaria-free country by WHO

Dec 12, 2018 2876

Uzbekistan has been certified a malaria-free country by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday, after a long and deadly battle with the disease which has killed nearly 40,000 people in the capital district in the late nineteenth century... Read More

Nine confirmed yellow fever related death in Edo State

Dec 05, 2018 1255

Nine confirmed yellow fever related death have been reported in Edo state following an outbreak of the viral infection, the state government says.Commissioner for Health, Dr. David Osifo, amde this known during a radio interview and disclosed that... Read More

World's first birth with transplanted uterus of a dead donor

Dec 05, 2018 1842

The first baby born from the uterus of a dead donor, following a successful uterus transplant performed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been reported on Wednesday.With the rate of infertility in couples believed to be between 10 to 15 percent, the... Read More

DR Congo Ebola Outbreak: 19 killed in five days, taking death toll to 241

Nov 28, 2018 1475

DR Congo's health ministry have says the Ebola outbreak, which began an August 1, claimed another 19 lives in a space of five days taking the number of people killed by the virus to 241.The ministry said it had recorded a total of 421 cases —... Read More

DR Congo Ebola Outbreak: New daily record as 13 new cases confirmed

Nov 22, 2018 2143

DR Congo's health ministry has confirmed thirteen new cases of Ebola in the northeastern part of the country. This figure represents the highest daily count since the beginning of this latest outbreak in July.A health ministry... Read More

Conjoined twin girls successfully separated at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital, Australia

Nov 09, 2018 2693

Conjoined Bhutanese twins have been successfully separated at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital, in Australia after a six hour operation.The 15-month-old twin girls, Nima and Dawa, joined at the torso and sharing a liver, were brought to... Read More

New study finds pregnancy gap of at least a year ideal

Oct 30, 2018 1321

A new study by University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Harvard TH Chan School of Public, says women do not have to wait for an interval of 18 to 24 months between giving birth and getting pregnant, the ideal recommended guidelines by the... Read More

New tuberculosis drug cures 8 in 10 patients

Oct 23, 2018 1221

A new treatment for a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis can cure 80 percent of sufferers, according to a trial hailed Monday as a "game changer" in the fight against the global killer.Doctors in Belarus -- a country with one of the highest... Read More

Doctors find 122 nails in patient's stomach

Oct 22, 2018 1517

Ethiopian doctors extracted over a hundred iron nails and other sharp objects from the stomach of a patient in the capital Addis Ababa at the weekend.Dawit Teare, a surgeon at St. Peter's Specialised Hospital, said the 33-year-old patient suffers... Read More

Virginity test violates female human rights - UN agencies

Oct 18, 2018 1247

A group of United Nations agencies has issued a joint statement calling for a ban on tests meant to assess the virginity of any female.The statement, issued during the World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Rio de Janeiro, stressed that... Read More

South African doctors transfer liver from HIV-positive mother to save her child's life

Oct 04, 2018 1909

Faced with the only chance to save a child's life, doctors in South Africa have performed a medical first -- transplanting part of the liver from a HIV-positive mother to her HIV-negative child, it was announced on Thursday.The doctors at the... Read More

Cholera outbreak: WHO launches second vaccination drive in Yemen

Oct 02, 2018 1600

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it was helping Yemeni authorities with a second round of vaccination against cholera in three hard-hit districts, as cases surged across the war-ravaged country.More than 2,500 people have died of the... Read More

New study says women at greater risk of suffering stroke, dementia and Parkinson

Oct 02, 2018 1669

Nearly half of women and one in three men are at risk of developing stroke or degenerative neurological diseases such as dementia and Parkinson's during their lifetime, according to a study published on Monday.Dutch researchers considered all... Read More

First human case of rat hepatitis found in Hong Kong

Sep 28, 2018 2453

A 56-year-old man from Hong Kong has developed the world's first human case of rat hepatitis E.Researchers say it is unclear how the man contacted the virus, but refuse bins outside his home were infested with rats.There had been no previous... Read More

Cholera kills 61 in Yobe

Sep 21, 2018 2022

Yobe government on Friday confirmed 906 fresh cases of cholera with 61 deaths and 50 others still on admission in hospitals across the state.Dr Muhammad Kawuwa, the Commissioner for Health, stated this in a statement in Damaturu on Friday.He said... Read More