As parts of arrangements to celebrate this year's Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week, nursing mothers and others in Kuje Area Council will receive free medical services this week, an official of Kuje Primary Health Care has said.

Girls are to get a better jab against sexual diseases after a U-turn by health chiefs. Cervarix, a vaccine that protects cervical cancer, will be replaced by Gardasil which also prevents up to 90 per cent of genital warts. Campaigners have argued that the wrong vaccine is being used in the routine immunisation programme for young girls, which is estimated to prevent 400 deaths a year.

Breast cancer screening saved my life, is one of the most powerful narratives in modern medicine, if not in Western culture more generally. So no wonder the new Canadian recommendations on screening mammography – suggesting only postmenopausal women undergo the test and do so less often – have sparked anger.

About 3,000 babies are born yearly in Nigeria by In Vitro Fertilization, IVF, because of infertility of couples caused by infections. Professor Osata Giwa-Osagie disclosed this during a distinguished professor lecture at University of Lagos, Wednesday.

Last week, as the 2012 election season heated up, three researchers reported on American attitudes toward federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Their conclusion: If American politicians listen to majority opinion, federal funding for stem cell funding is more secure than if they heed the party lines, in which case the field may be in for more turmoil.

Scientists claim to have carried out a pioneering stem cell transplant that rebuilt brain circuitry in mice, an achievement which could pave the way for a new and effective treatment for conditions from Parkinson’s to autism. In their experiment, an international team, led by Harvard University, put healthy stem cells from mouse embryos into the brains of adult laboratory rodents who were unable to use leptin, a hormone that tells the body to stop eating.

As women continue to live longer and break the glass ceiling in the workplace, more and more are putting off starting families. They certainly want children, but they are waiting until they're older to have them. Unfortunately, Mother Nature doesn't always agree with that plan. Fertility in most women drops significantly over age 35, and then falls off even more after 40. At about the same time, the risk of complications, including miscarriage, increases.

Over at the Weekly Standard, Wesley Smith is affronted by the mainstream media’s apparent failure to headline the success of a recent adult stem cell trial in the U.K.

Cancer patients now have another treatment option, rather than physically debilitating chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Molecular-targeted biotherapy has a bright future for the treatment of tumors as the side effects are less pronounced, according to Hao Xishan, president of Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital (TMUCIH) and an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

A recent survey reveals that 53 percent of women and 49 percent of men say they approve of cosmetic surgery, according to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (AMAPS). That same survey found that 67 percent of Americans said they would not be embarrassed if their friends or family knew they had cosmetic surgery.