Adegoke Falade is Professor of paediatric respiratory medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, in Ibadan, Nigeria, he also serve as an honorary consultant paediatrician to the University College Hospital in Ibadan. His main interest is in the field of pneumonia and asthma.
As a research clinician at the MRC Laboratories, The Gambia, Professor Falade explored the interface between childhood malnutrition and respiratory diseases. The work in this field culminated in a successfully defended Doctor of Medicine (MD) Thesis in 1999 titled: Pneumonia in Malnourished Gambian Children. Professor Falade was an investigator in Nigeria in the International Study of Asthma and Allergy in Childhood (ISAAC), an international multicentre collaborative epidemiological study. The findings obtained from the Nigerian contribution, is in record, as the first available prevalence data for these diseases in Nigeria.
Surgery in the womb: I ve done the best for her
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3rd May, 2021 05:45:33 It comes with risks, but then this operation will mean I ve done the best for her. In my mind there was no choice - I just had to do it.
After six failed rounds of IVF, Helena had almost given up hope of having a second baby. But on her seventh attempt she became pregnant and things seemed to progress well until her 20-week scan.
There, Helena was told her daughter had spina bifida. It was a very large lesion on her back and half of her spine was exposed. They said that it was likely she will be paralysed, incontinent and will need a shunt to drain the fluid from her brain later on, Helena recalls.
Nigel Farage has branded London s chaotic cycle lanes a joke as he shared footage of a blue lighted ambulance stuck in traffic just metres down the road from a hospital.
The former Brexit Party leader posted a clip on Twitter of a man standing in a deserted cycle lane as dozens of cars remain at a standstill on the road adjacent.
The cycle path, in front of University College Hospital in Euston, had been doubled in size with moveable bollards but it appeared that there was barely any need during daylight hours.
This is totally insane. These cycle lanes are a joke. pic.twitter.com/jlRFXILgJs Nigel Farage (@Nigel Farage) May 3, 2021