A man’s semen has been found to contain only his donor’s DNA after bone marrow transplant.

Chris Long is an IT worker in the washoe county sheriff’s department in Reno, Nevada USA. Interestingly, he’s never met his German donor except for a few exchanged phone messages. His doctor had found his donor on a donor website.

Within four months after the operation, tests showed that the DNA in his blood had been replaced with his donor’s. Swab collected from his lips, cheeks and tongue also contained his donor’s DNA. Of all the samples collected, only his chest and head hairs were unaffected.

Mr Long's case raises several questions like; what happens if he has a baby? Would he pass his own genes or his donor’s to his future off springs?

Read more of the fascinating story here���

https://www.twcreport.com/2019/12/20/mans-semen-contains-only-donors-dna-after-bone-marrow-transplant/

It's definitely been a good month for health.

Scientists have found a cure for XDR-TB (extensively drug resistant TB).

This development comes on the heels of the new cure for Ebola.

Extensively drug resistant TB is the deadliest strain of Tuberculosis, as it is resistant to the four antibiotics typically used to treat Tuberculosis.

Nigeria is one of the countries included among the 30 high burden countries for TB, TB/HIV and DR-TB.

Learn more at the link �

https://www.twcreport.com/2019/08/22/medical-advancement-drug-development-scientists-discover-a-cure-to-the-deadly-xdr-tb-strain/

Ghana is already air dropping medical supplies to health facilities in their country, even in the rural areas. 

Interesting to note is that Rwanda started as far back as 2016

At this point, perhaps, who cooks the best jollof rice should be the least of our problems. 

Are we losing out on the health tech race already?.
Better still, have we even entered the race to begin with? 

Learn more about the tech start up changing the health industry in Africa.

https://www.twcreport.com/2019/08/12/medical-innovations-health-tech-air-dropping-medical-supplies-in-africa/

Ghana is already air dropping medical supplies to health facilities in their country, even in the rural areas.

Interesting to note is that Rwanda started as far back as 2016

At this point, perhaps, who cooks the best jollof rice should be the least of our problems.

Are we losing out on the health tech race already?.
Better still, have we even entered the race to begin with?

Learn more about the tech start up changing the health industry in Africa.

https://www.twcreport.com/2019/08/12/medical-innovations-health-tech-air-dropping-medical-supplies-in-africa/

Ghana is already air dropping medical supplies to health facilities in their country, even in the rural areas.

Interesting to note is that Rwanda started as far back as 2016

At this point, perhaps, who cooks the best jollof rice should be the least of our problems.

Are we losing out on the health tech race already?.
Better still, have we even entered the race to begin with?

Learn more about the tech start up changing the health industry in Africa.

https://www.twcreport.com/2019/08/12/medical-innovations-health-tech-air-dropping-medical-supplies-in-africa/

How much do you know about 'constituency projects'?

Did you know that Late president Yar’adua approved 100billion naira as part of the budget, for National Assembly, for the executive to implement constituency projects?

At the link, learn about the smart and devious ways some Senators and Hon members divert funds meant for constituency projects.�

https://www.twcreport.com/2019/08/09/articles-constituency-projects-in-nigeria-and-primary-health-care-development/

How much do you know about 'constituency projects'?

Did you know that Late president Yar’adua approved 100billion naira as part of the budget, for National Assembly, for the executive to implement constituency projects?

At the link, learn about the smart and devious ways some Senators and Hon members divert funds meant for the building of health facilities �

https://www.twcreport.com/2019/08/09/articles-constituency-projects-in-nigeria-and-primary-health-care-development/

"When we talk about about factors impeding the practice of medical laboratory science in Nigeria, the culture of learned colleagues in the health sector enabling quackery cannot be over emphasized. I will illustrate with a story."

Mr David (B.MLS) recalls how during his time as a youth corper, a consultant surgeon asked the head of the laboratory unit, to take on his (the surgeon's) relative on apprentice training to become a medical laboratory scientist.

At the link, read the story and the comedic but effective way his boss handled the situation.

https://www.twcreport.com/2019/07/15/in-conversation-with-joseph-salifu-david/

Recently the Japanese government approved human-animal embryo experiment. Is Japan really going to solve the problem of organ donor scarcity o are they going to inadvertently create a man-animal hybrid. Imagine a dog with a human face or vice versa . Just kidding

Find out more at the link
https://www.twcreport.com/2019/08/01/human-organs-grown-in-animal-embryos-is-japan-set-to-solve-the-problem-of-donor-organ-scarcity-or-set-to-create-the-first-man-animal-hybrid/

"Ever wondered how Canada, with a population 5times lower than Nigeria ,has been absorbing our medical doctors?
In canada, 1 doctor is likely to attend to 600 patients, while in Nigeria 1 doctor is likely to attend to 6000 patients. Imagine this equation, less than a 100,000 number of doctors in Nigeria to a population of over 200 million. How then do we have unemployed medical doctors in Nigeria?"


Our conversation with Dr Felix B. Roland was thought provoking and filled with practical solutions to get our health system out of its state of quagmire.

Read more at the link.�

https://www.twcreport.com/2019/07/29/in-conversation-with-dr-felix-b-roland/
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Dr Felix B. Roland is the Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC), Federal Medical Centre, Jabi Abuja.

The future of health care, has long since been touted, to be one that will be preventive, personalised and precise.

In developed worlds, there has been impressive progress in medicine. With the proliferation of wearable medical gadgets, doctors now have acess to more information about their patients.

However, the pharmaceuticals continue to proof a challenge. Drugs are mass produced in a one-size-fits-all fashion.

Mass produced drugs obstruct effective treatment and management of patients.
Doctors are forced to overdose or under-dose patients, depending on the available dose of the pill in the market.

How do you produce drugs, tailor-made to meet individual needs?

A American pharmaceutical company has solved the problem.

Read more on their innovative solution�

https://www.twcreport.com/2019/07/21/the-future-of-pharma-3d-pills/

Centuries ago, Jesus Christ told the parable of 'the good samaritan' as recorded in the Holy Bible.

Today, discover how the parable inspired one of the most sensitive law in health ...The Good Samaritan Law. ��

https://www.twcreport.com/2019/07/14/the-good-samaritan-law/

It is the year 2019, still Nigeria cannot boast of any medical equipment or technology that is being manufactured on its shores.

Billions of naira are lost in revenue flight to manufacturing countries. China remains the dominant off shore supplier.

This is shocking for a country with many brilliant minds. It is even more so, when you think that we don't even need to necessarily bother about fresh innovations. We could simply take ideas from those ahead of us and manufacture our own copies of these medical equipments.

Dr Bioku is one of such brilliant minds. Read more of his inspiring story of innovation�

https://www.twcreport.com/2019/07/23/in-conversation-with-bioku-muftau-on-the-underdevelopment-of-medical-technology-in-nigeria/