Obese People Are more at risk of COVID-19 than Others – New Study.
According to emerging data, BMI also plays a role in people who get infected with the coronavirus, with obese people being particularly more high risk than others.
The body mass index is a clinical indicator of how "fat" a person is - a function of genetic and environment....
Remdesivir effective against a key enzyme of coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — Study.
Scientists at the University of Alberta have shown that the drug Remdesivir is highly effective in stopping the replication mechanism of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to new research published today in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
The paper follows closely on research published by the same lab in...
#COVID-19: The Catastrophe Unfolding in Kano.
If very urgent steps are not taken right now, Kano - the most populous city in the most populated country in the world's poorest continent - will become the epicentre of COVID-19 in Africa, like New York in America.
The big difference is that while New York is the...
On The Readiness of the Coronavirus Vaccine. The COVID-19 Tripod.
The scientific community appears to be in agreement on what must be done to defeat coronavirus. Increased testing, social/physical distancing and vaccination make up the crux of the plan, The COVID-19 Tripod.
Medical experts and frontline health care workers are the enforcers of this plan in this pandemic yet...
Full List of Successful Interns for UDUTH, Sokoto.
The Usman Dan Fodio University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto has released the full comprehensive list of successful interns for the year 2020.
Sequel to the recruitment interview for the post of House Officers and other interns (various specialties) held on the 2nd - 3rd March, 2020, find below the full...
Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists Issues Joint Statement on Pandemic Menace.
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE NIGERIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (NMA), THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF NIGERIA (PSN) AND THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN NURSES AND MIDWIVES (NANNM) ON THE CONTAINMENT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC MENACE IN NIGERIAOBSERVATIONS:
The novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been spreading at a rapid rate across the world, which...
Is it correct to say 5G Network causes Coronavirus?
You must have seen somewhere on social media the notion that 5G Network is the cause of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Last days prophets and believers are up and about beating the drum of the coming of the antichrist. According to these people, 5G Network and Corona Virus are tools...
Nigeria Nurses Fight Against Disparity in New Proposed Hazard Allowance
In a letter to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, the National Association of Nurses and Midwives of Nigeria have called for the Minister to correct the disparity in city's proposed Hazard allowance for all frontline health workers.
Nigeria's health care system is plagued by interprofessional in-fightings...
Press Release: 54gene Closes $15M Series A
Adjuvant Capital leads round for African genomics company to transform genetic information into solutions for improving human health.
14 April 2020. Lagos, Nigeria. 54Gene, the African genomics research, services, and development company has closed a Series A round of $15M, led by Adjuvant Capital, a life sciences fund backed...
Extreme Control Measures must be done if we are to beat the Nouvel #COVID19.
Infectious disease researchers at The University of Texas at Austin studying the novel coronavirus were able to identify how quickly the virus can spread, a factor that may help public health officials in their efforts at containment.
They found that time between cases in a chain of transmission...
