Very heavy roundworms infestation may cause blockage and perforation of the intestine. This leads to the life threatening infection called peritonitis. Blockage of the pancreatic and bile ducts may also…
Category: Health
Cancer : Cells that Defies Death Only to Die with Host
Normal cells do not live forever. Under certain circumstance, cells are programmed to die, particularly during embryonic development. Cells that become damaged beyond repair normally commit suicide for the ‘greater…
Kuru Prion Disease ! Reason I Don’t Take Backstreet Soup
Kuru is the condition which first brought prion diseases to prominence in the 1950s. Found in the geographically isolated tribes in the fore highlands of Papue New Guinea. Researchers discovered…
How African Sausage ‘Mutura’ Shuffle Cholesterol Benefits to Heart Attacks
Cholesterol is essential for the functioning of plasma membranes where it plays two main roles. Firstly it limits the uncontrolled leakages of small molecules [water and ions] in and out…
A Vice that Can Spark Class ‘D’ Fire
I hope against hope that my former high school current students are not manipulating wired electricity devices in dormitory to make tea or ironing the way we late 80s and…