Twenty seconds. That’s how long you need to wash your hands to remove germs, a new physics study confirms. Typical hand-washing guidelines—including those from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—advise scrubbing your hands for a minimum of 20 seconds. To assess that recommendation, researchers used a mathematical model to examine the key mechanics of hand-washing and […]
Ingredients “Kontomire”/ Cocoyam leaves Banana Milk Honey Ice cubes Blender* Method Cut Your Kontomire into small pieces and rinse with salt water to cleanse parasites and organisms Put your washed “kontomire” on fire and allow to boil for some few minutes (5minutes) Remove your “Kontomire” on fire and put it in a cold water Cut […]
A review of evidence by researchers at the University of Bristol and the University of Edinburgh has suggested a possible new means by which chlamydia could lead to an increased risk of cancer and ectopic pregnancy. The hypothesis also provides a possible explanation for how pelvic inflammatory disease may be triggered in some women. The […]
A pair of researchers at Université Laval, Quebec claim that more effort should be made to develop plant-based vaccines. Hugues Fausther-Bovendo and Gary Kobinger have published a Perspective piece in the journal Science espousing the benefits of plant-based vaccines and suggesting how they might be made. As the world continues to grapple with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, researchers […]
For thousands of years, malaria was a mysterious illness affecting people across the globe. Even the name of the disease, ‘malaria’, derived from two Italian words meaning ‘bad air’, highlights the confusion around the transmission of this disease. It was only following the discovery of malaria parasites in the gut of Anopheles mosquitoes in India […]
