The Rumour Hunter Posted on   23 October 2015   by   RESULTS UK |   Leave a comment To mark World Polio Day 2015, Jim Calverley, our Parliamentary Advocacy Officer working on Polio, spoke with Faleke Bolanle, a health educator from Nigeria. Here’s what he found out:  This week, I had the pleasure of hosting Faleke Bolanle, a health educator working in Lagos State, Nigeria. She has been doing the job for 10 years and completed her Youth Service Corps in Ogobia in Benue State, having trained at the University of Ilorin in Kwara State. Nigeria recently came off the polio endemic list and has now been polio-free for 15 months. This is an extraordinary achievement in a country of over 175 million people, with an under 5 population (those most susceptible to polio) that comprises 20% of that number. Faleke supervises a group of volunteers in Ikeja that she calls Polio Champions. These are people who come from different walks of life but share a desire...

ER doctor wrongly ruled man dead, widow’s lawsuit charges EDT Thomas J. Prohaska Michael E. Cleveland suffered a heart attack at age 46 and was declared dead at 8:29 p.m. Oct. 10 last year. He died again the next morning. Only the second death was permanent. Now his widow has filed a malpractice lawsuit contending that Cleveland might have survived had the doctor responded more promptly rather than insisting he was dead. On the previous night, a young emergency room physician at DeGraff Memorial Hospital in North Tonawanda incorrectly pronounced Cleveland dead, and for nearly three hours refused to revisit his diagnosis despite numerous reports from Cleveland’s family – and from a Niagara County coroner who refused to take the body – that Cleveland was breathing and moving on his gurney. The emergency room doctor told Tammy Cleveland that her husband simply “had life expelling out of his body.” When the doctor finally did return to check on Cleveland at 11:10 p.m....

William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Tu Youyou win Nobel prize in medicine Campbell and Ōmura win for their work on a therapy against roundworm, sharing the prize with Tu for her work on a therapy against malaria 0:08 / 1:48 Watch the announcement: Who are the Nobel Prize for medicine winners? Ian Sample  Science editor @iansample Last modified on Tuesday 6 October 2015 09.19 BST Share on WhatsApp Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China have won the  Nobel prize in medicine  for discoveries that helped doctors fight malaria and infections caused by roundworm parasites. Tu Youyou discovered one of the most effective treatments for malaria while working on a secret military project during China’s Cultural Revolution. The 84-year-old pharmacologist was awarded half of the prestigious 8m Swedish kronor (£631,000) prize for her discovery of  artemisinin , a dru...

Heartwarming Moment Nurse Breastfed Crying Baby To Calm Him Down For Surgery This is the heartwarming moment a nurse breastfed a crying 1-month-old boy to calm him down before an operation. The panicked infant was bawling his eyes out at Guangming Hospital in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, after being administered a local anaesthetic. He was due to have an abscess removed, but the surgery couldn’t go ahead until he’d relaxed, according to local media. Nurse Li Baoxia, who had just become a new mother, suspected that the boy needed a feed. So, after gaining permission from the child’s father, she acted as a temporary wet nurse and quickly breastfed him. He incredibly calmed down and stopped crying so that the doctors could perform the operation. Lead surgeon Zhao Zhengyuan said he was “very moved” by Baoxia’s actions as he’d been planning to cancel the surgery entirely. The baby’s father also showed his gratitude to Baoxia following the incident. The two were seen sha...

Cure for asthma? Try coffee and herbal ‘cigarettes’... As it is revealed cigarettes were once thought to treat asthma, we look at ten weird and wonderful cures through the ages It may seem the exact opposite of a treatment for asthma - but smoking cigarettes was once thought to help sufferers of the condition. A new report has brought to light some of the more, er, surprising treatments used back in the 1850s. A review of the evolution of common respiratory diseases over the past century has revealed that strong black coffee and herbal ‘cigarettes’ were once popular treatments for asthma, which used to be thought of as a psychosomatic condition brought on by stress. The ancients used various herbal remedies derived from horsetail, thorn-apple, and deadly nightshade, available as “asthma cigarettes.” By the 1850s, strong black coffee was in vogue as a means of treating symptoms. Yes, really. The review, presented by Professor Peter Barnes, from Imperial College ...