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What Is Circumcision?

Circumcision is surgery to remove the skin at the very tip of the penis.

Baby boys are born with a loose flap of skin that covers and protects the rounded top part of the penis. This skin is called the foreskin. It contains nerves, blood vessels, and a tiny part of muscle.

When you are born, the foreskin is stuck to the penis. It separates as you grow up. This allows urine to better exit the body and lets the skin pull back when you have an erection.



Lawyers in Kuala Lumpur said on Friday that a 9-year-old Malaysian boy got his penis amputated in the second botched circumcision operation in December.

The Lawyers said was due to negligence on the part of his surgeon.

The doctor accidentally cut off the head of the boy’s penis during the operation on December 15.

He then tried to stitch the penis head back on, but did not align it properly, lawyer P. Uthayakumar told reporters at a press conference outside the main hospital building in Kuala Lumpur.

The child was referred to another hospital for immediate further surgery, but the penis head started turning black, and the whole penis later had to be amputated.

http://www.carlybrigs.ga/2017/01/boy-loses-penis-to-circumcision.html

A California mother has turned her personal tragedy into a touching gift for other mothers and their newborns in need. She refused to allow her breast milk to go to waste after her newborn’s sudden death.

Mom Turns Baby’s Death Into A Great Gift
Ariel welcomed her beautiful baby boy, Ronan but due to birth complications, he died at the age of 11 days in October. Her son was born with heart defects and suffered a series of strokes shortly after his birth. According to WOKV, the strokes caused catastrophic damage to the infant’s brain.

It was a devastating loss for her family. However, the California young mother found a way to turn the painful loss into something inspiring.
Matthews posted her son’s story on social media revealing that she had a miscarriage and a stillbirth in the past year. Even so, Matthews chooses to see the good in everything, even her son’s painful death.
“Since Ronan passed, I decided to go for 1,000 ounces, especially since my body was producing a lot more milk this time,” Ariel said.


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Malnutrition affects brain development but fixable in the first 1000 days of a child, report from the presentation of a team Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN), has said.
The report also stated that, a stunted child has 40 percent less brain mass than a normal child.
Under nutrition exists when insufficient food intake and repeated infection result in one or more of the following:
•underweight for age,
•short for age (stunted),
•thin for height (wasted) and
•functionally deficient in vitamins and/or mineral micronutrients.
Malnutrition is a broad term that refers to all form of poor nutrition.
It is caused by a complex array of factors including dietary inadequacy deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in energy, protein and micronutrients), infections and socio-cultural factors.
Malnutrition includes under nutrition as well as overweight and obesity.
With the campaign by the #Nutritionreport to end malnutrition by 2030, Nigeria is ranked second behind India in the list of nations with stunted children with 45 percent children death associated to malnutrition related cases.
It is in the light of this that WINNN in partnership with UNICEF, Action Against Hunger and Save the Children International funded by DFID embarked on a six-year project (September 2011 to August 2017) supporting five states: Zamfara, Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi and Yobe to help curb the issue of malnutrition.

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The couple were spotted at Stephanie Coker’s wedding this weekend and only had eyes for each other.
According to The Punch, they are living together again.
Their marriage hit the rocks in April 2016, after TeeBillz took to social media to lash out at his wife . He made claims of infidelity against the pop star, alleging that she had sexual relations with Dr. SID, Don Jazzy and 2face Idibia.
TeeBillz then tried to commit suicide along the Ikoyi/Lekki Bridge the same . He was rescued by Banky W and Peter of P-Square.
Tiwa then granted an interview telling her own side of the story , denying those allegations and accusing TeeBillz of drug abuse.

http://www.carlybrigs.ga/2017/01/tiwa-savage-teebillz-reconcile-now.html

Austell at 12:02 a.m
One of the first babies born to metro Atlanta parents arrived at Wellstar Cobb Hospital in Austell at 12:02 a.m., hospital officials say.
Jayce Hanna is 7 pounds, 1.4 ounces and 20 inches long.
Twins born at Northside Hospital Cherokee have birth dates in different years, according to Channel 2 Action News. A baby girl was born at 11:20 p.m. Saturday and her brother was born an hour later

http://www.carlybrigs.ga/2017/01/twins-born-in-different-years-first.html

A world in which type one diabetics no longer need to inject themselves every day may be just a few years away, after British scientists launched an ambitious project to create a system which delivers insulin automatically.
Currently people with type one diabetes must undergo prick tests several times a day to monitor their blood sugar, and inject themselves with insulin when it gets too high.
The daily chore is time-consuming and invasive, and for children if often means they cannot attend parties, sleep-overs and camps where parents cannot monitor their condition.
But now scientists at the University of Birmingham are developing smart capsules which would travel through the body and release insulin when they came across high levels of blood sugar.

http://www.carlybrigs.ga/2017/01/end-of-daily-injection-for-type-one.html

Health Policy Research Group an (NGO),has urged the Federal Government to resuscitate the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) free Maternal and Child Health programme to address the nation’s high mortality rate.
Dr Felix Obi, a Researcher with the group made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja.
Obi who identified the programme as NHIS-MDGs free maternal health programme, attributed the nation’s high mortality on the collapse of the programme , describing women and children as accounting for the nation’s highest burden due to their vulnerability.
He however said that scaling up the programme would go a long way in ensuring drastic reduction in the nation’s mortality rate.
“Where we have problem in Nigeria is women dying while bearing children, so if we must reduce women and childhood mortality rate, we have to make available services needed by women of reproductive age and children.
“We have to prioritise implementation of the National Health Act which stipulates that Nigerians should have access to minimum basic package of health which is universal health coverage,’’ Obi said.

http://www.carlybrigs.ga/2017/01/group-urges-fg-to-resuscitate-nhis-free.html

As the reality of all the New Year's resolutions people have adopted sinks in, there is one habit that you'll never want to go back to.
Smoking - a condition that causes smokers to die younger, smell terribly and all at a huge cost to your wallet.
But taking a look at what happens to a smoker's body when they give up is enough to keep you off the gays and sticking to your New Year's resolution for good.
Quitting smoking is the best thing any smoker can do for their health.

It’s a fact that around half of long-term smokers will die from the deadly addiction

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