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Doctors disconnect half of child’s brain in 10-hour surgery to stop seizures
(Agency report) Child patient, Brianna Bodley, underwent a 10-hour hemispherotomy to disconnect half her brain after she was diagnosed with a rare, chronic inflammatory disease. Getty Images Doctors performed a 10-hour hemispherotomy on a 6-year-old Southern California girl last month….
NLNG Science Prize: Bubble PoliteCPAP evolved for neonate ventilation
Sopuruchi Onwuka The winning work of the 2023 Nigerian Prize for Science would now substantially relieve parents and healthcare professionals in the country of the cost and complications of assisting newborn babies with immature lungs keep alive with infused oxygen….
Study finds Semaglutide good for weight loss, heart failure symptoms
Semaglutide, the active ingredient in drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic, is also effective at reducing symptoms of heart failure, new research shows. A study published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine followed over 500 patients who were…
Neurosurgeon plucks a worm eating Australian woman’s brain memory
A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm supposedly causing memory loss from the patient’s brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a hole in the 64-year-old patient’s…
Pilot dies midair, 271 passengers landed
A pilot with pricey 25 years flight experience died midair after falling ill, leaving fellow command crew to land the plane. The Oracle Today gathered from online reports that the American pilot flying 271 passengers from Miami to Chile died…
Research confirms zero health benefit from alcoholic drink
Sopuruchi Onwuka Despite the popular medical advice of one or two drinks a day for men and only one drink for women, a latest published research has concluded that apart from the crave and flavors, there is absolutely no health…
Russian patients escape hospital with deadly infection
Local officials in Russia are in panic after patients infected with deadly anthrax virus escaped hospital beds in Tuva, a republic in Russia’s southern Siberian region. According to government medium, TASS, the patients were sent to hospital after a dinner…
American FDA clears biotech firm for potential HIV cure
Sopuruchi Onwuka The United States health regulator, the Food and Drug Administration, has cleared Excision BioTherapeutics Incorporated to proceed with its CRISPR gene-editing technology which presents new hopes for cure of the lingering Human Immuno-deficiency Virus popularly called HIV which…
Conjoined Texas twins undergo successful separation surgery
A team of multidisciplinary clinicians at the Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States, worked for six hours separating a set of conjoined twins after they were delivered via caesarian section at a different hospital. The twins are getting ready…
NCDC confirms outbreak of diphtheria patient dies
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has raised the alert level on outbreak of the diphtheria. The enhanced consciousness came after a four-year-old patient died in Abuja. The agency warned that that the disease if highly contagious and…
