In the early 1950s, when the National Health Service (NHS) was still in its infancy, the British public was gripped by news reports of two attempts at the surgical separation of conjoined twins. The first operation involved one-year-old twin girls from Kano, Nigeria. The twins were xiphopagus (joined at the lower sternum) and shared a liver, separation was attempted at London’s Hammersmith Hosp...

High production of meat for human use has resulted to extreme waste generation from abattoirs. Nigeria as a developing nation been characterized by incompetent disposal, treatment, and management technologies leading pollution. This study was conducted assess wastes in Kano Abattoir. An investigative survey approach used the Wastes generated Abattoir, State. investigated using personal communic...

Temperature dependence of gradational system in Pb0.7Sr0.3TiO3 nanoparticles Fumihito SHIKANAI, Jun KANO, Shinya TSUKADA, Saidul ISLAM, Kihiro KATO, Akiko NAKAO, Takashi IDA and Seiji. KOJIMA Graduate School of Pure and Applied Science, Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan KEK-PF, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan Ceramics Research Laboratory, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Tajimi...

Toshiyuki Kano, Yuji Inaba, Margherita D’Antuono, Giuseppe Biagini, Maxime Levésque, and Massimo Avoli Montreal Neurological Institute and Departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery and Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Shinshu University, School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan; and Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Metaboliche e Neuroscienze, Università di Modena e Reggio E...

Background: Childhood and adolescent obesity is a global public health concern because of associated increased risk of cardiovascular diseases later in life. Although there are several studies on childhood obesity in Nigeria, few have assessed it in adolescents. Objectives: This study intends to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents in urban northern Nigeria. Method: A ...

To determine current data on HIV infection and to further confirm the presence of HIV-1 group O infection in Nigeria, 2300 samples from five states were tested for the presence of HIV antibody. A convenience sampling was obtained from pregnant women, tuberculosis (TB) patients, commercial sex workers (CSWs), blood donors, patients with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), patients with skin di...

BACKGROUND Malaria in pregnancy remains a major public health problem especially in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the prevalence of clinical and asymptomatic infection among antenatal client (ANC) attendees is largely unknown, especially at primary health care (PHC) level in northern Nigeria. This study assessed the prevalence of fever, malarial parasitemia and anemia among pregnant women attend...

Background: Normal pregnancy has been associated with alteration of the haemostatic system which has been linked to increased risk of thromboembolism. The study determined the haemostatic parameters in pregnant women in Kano, North-West Nigeria. Materials and Methods: One hundred and fifty pregnant women, aged 17-40 years and 100 age-matched nonpregnant women were enrolled for the study between...