General Surgeons and Pediatricians needed at Delta state Hospital Management Board – Nigerian Job Vacancy

Delta state Hospital Management Board  hereby invites applications from suitably qualified candidates to fill the following vacant positions below:
Job Title:  General Surgeons
Qualifications

• Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons (FWACS) or Fellow of the National Post-Graduate College of Nigeria (Surgery) or equivalent qualification.
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Job Title:  Paediatricians
Qualifications

• Fellow of the West African College of Physicians (FWACP) or Fellow of the National Post-Graduate College of Nigeria (Paediatrics) or equivalent qualification.

To Apply
Interested candidates should submit 5 (five) copies of letters of application including 5 (five) copies of their Curriculum Vitae (CV) addressed to:
The Permanent Secretary,
Delta State Hospitals Management Board,
No. 7, Ezenei Avenue,
P.M.B. 5041,
Asaba. 
Application Deadline 3rd June, 2013.
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The Abortion Scandal Story Forced Tears From My Eyes – Uche Jombo

Uche Jombo is one actress that has suffered a lot from negative stories. At a point, she was scandalized with an alleged abortion story, which shook the industry. She went to the extent of suing the magazine and journalist that published the story to a court of law. 
Her reported failed relationship with Super Eagles footballer, Kalu Uche went viral in the media. Her eventual marriage to America-based Puerto Rican lover, Kenny Rodriguez was also marred by controversies, when it was secretly held in the USA.
The late release of the wedding pictures stirred controversies in the media again until she released them more than one month after the union was solemnized.
Speaking with Nigeriafilms.com on the story that forced tears out of her eyes, the Abiriba, Abia State-born movie star said that abortion was one of the stories that ‘achieved that aim’.
“I have had worse (the abortion story),” Uche Jombo said forcefully. “That one was just big because it was the one I took to court,” she continued, adding that, “because I don’t understand why anybody would sit down and fabricate something that would hurt another human being without any shrewd.”
“Even if you don’t have a sister, you might marry tomorrow and have a girl child. Anytime anybody writes, I always say, drop your pen and just imagine you being that person. If what you’ve written is the truth, you are justified. If it is not the truth, the person needs not go anywhere to swear for you, law of karma would just take care of you,” the actress-c*m-producer fumed.

Embryonic stem cells: Advance in medical human cloning

 

An embryo at the blastocyst stage

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Human cloning has been used to produce early embryos, marking a "significant step" for medicine, say US scientists.

The cloned embryos were used as a source of stem cells, which can make new heart muscle, bone, brain tissue or any other type of cell in the body.
The study, published in the journal Cell, used methods like those that produced Dolly the sheep in the UK.
However, researchers say other sources of stem cells may be easier, cheaper and less controversial.
Stem cells are one of the great hopes for medicine. Being able to create new tissue might be able to heal the damage caused by a heart attack or repair a severed spinal cord.
There are already trials taking place using stem cells taken from donated embryos to restore people's sight.
However, these donated cells do not match the patient so they would be rejected by the body. Cloning bypasses this problem.
The technique used - somatic cell nuclear transfer - has been well-known since Dolly the sheep became the first mammal to be cloned, in 1996.

 

 Dolly's birth in 1996 was seen as a major scientific breakthrough

Skin cells were taken from an adult and the genetic information was placed inside a donor egg which had been stripped of its own DNA. Electricity was used to encourage the egg to develop into an embryo.
However, researchers have struggled to reproduce the feat in people. The egg does start dividing, but never goes past the 6-12 cell stage.
'Real deal' A South Korean scientist, Hwang Woo-suk, did claim to have created stem cells from cloned human embryos, but was found to have faked the evidence.
Now a team at the Oregon Health and Science University have developed the embryo to the blastocyst stage - around 150 cells - which is enough to provide a source of embryonic stem cells.

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Cloned babies?

Could scientists fully clone a person? It's an interesting question that emerges from this research.
These researchers have certainly developed a cloned embryo further than anyone else.
But producing a five-day-old embryo is a world away from a woman giving birth to the first human clone.
The embryo would need to be implanted as per IVF, but primate research shows that things often go wrong before the clone is born.
Prof Robin Lovell-Badge of the UK National Institute for Medical Research said: "It is an unsafe procedure in animals and it will similarly be an unsafe procedure in humans. For this reason alone it should not be attempted."
It would also be illegal is some countries, such as the UK, which differentiate between "therapeutic" and "reproductive" cloning.

Dr Shoukhrat Mitalipov said: "A thorough examination of the stem cells derived through this technique demonstrated their ability to convert just like normal embryonic stem cells, into several different cell types, including nerve cells, liver cells and heart cells.

"While there is much work to be done in developing safe and effective stem cell treatments, we believe this is a significant step forward in developing the cells that could be used in regenerative medicine."
Chris Mason, a professor of regenerative medicine at University College London, said this looked like "the real deal".
"They've done the same as the Wright brothers really. They've looked around at where are all the best bits of how to do this from different groups all over the place and basically amalgamated it.
"The Wright brothers took off and this has actually managed to make embryonic stem cells."
The ethical rival Embryonic stem cell research has repeatedly raised ethical concerns and human eggs are a scarce resource. This has led researchers to an alternative route to stem cells.
The technique takes the same sample of skin cells but converts them using proteins to "induced pluripotent" stem cells.
However, there are still questions about the quality of stem cells produced using this method compared with embryonic stem cells.
Prof Mason said the field was leaning towards induced pluripotent stem cells: "It has got a lot of momentum behind it, a lot of funding and a lot of powerful people now."
Dr Lyle Armstrong at Newcastle University said that the study "without doubt" marked an advance for the field.
But he warned: "Ultimately, the costs of somatic cell nuclear transfer-based methods for making stem cells could be prohibitive."
Dr David King, from the campaign group Human Genetics Alert, warned that: "Scientists have finally delivered the baby that would-be human cloners have been waiting for: a method for reliably creating cloned human embryos.
"This makes it imperative that we create an international legal ban on human cloning before any more research like this takes place. It is irresponsible in the extreme to have published this research."
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Nigeria declares 'massive' military campaign on borders

Nigeria has announced a "massive deployment of men and resources" to combat Islamist militants in the country's border territories.

A statement said the drive was aimed at "asserting the nation's territorial integrity" and "enhancing security".
On Tuesday President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three north-eastern states after a series of deadly attacks by militant groups.
Fighters from the Boko Haram group are blamed for most of the violence.
The group, which has its roots in north-eastern Nigeria, is linked to bloodshed in which some 2,000 people have died since 2010.
Nigeria - a multi-ethnic nation of more than 160 million people - is also affected by a spate of conflicts over land, religion and oil.
'Embarrassing' admission Wednesday's Ministry of Defence statement said the army, police and other security agencies had begun operations to "rid the nation's border territories of terrorist bases and activities".
The declared aim that it will assert the nation's territorial integrity comes a day after the president said the state no longer controlled the entire territory of Nigeria - a somewhat embarrassing admission, says the BBC's Will Ross in Lagos.

The operation will focus on enhancing security of governmental structures after the president said attacks on government buildings and killings of officials and other civilians amounted to a declaration of war.
The "massive" new deployment of personnel and resources will add to an already significant security presence in the north-east, a day after a state of emergency was declared in three states - Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe.
The question, our correspondent says, is how the army will defeat the insurgents without causing enormous suffering for ordinary civilians, whom the militants live and operate among.
The statement assures "law-abiding citizens that every effort has been put in place to ensure safety of civilians and non-combatants", and urges citizens to alert authorities to "criminal and terrorist activities or movement".
The president recently said he was looking into the possibility of an amnesty for militants, but with the new military campaign, the prospect of dialogue looks more remote than ever, our correspondent says.
"We will hunt them down, we will fish them out, and we will bring them to justice," the president vowed on Tuesday.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state in the north.
-bbcnews