Friday Okonofua

TL;DR: Ending the silent pandemic of unsafe abortion is an urgent public-health and human-rights imperative, and access to safe abortion improves women's health, and vice versa, as documented in Romania during the regime of President Nicolae Ceausescu.

TL;DR: It is suggested that community-dwelling women in Nigeria have poor knowledge of breast cancer and minority practice BSE and CBE and education appears to be the major determinant of level of knowledge and health behavior among the study participants.

TL;DR: An initial study of the nature of linkage disequilibrium and genetic variation, in population samples from different regions of the world, in a larger segment of the ADH cluster (including the three Class I ADH genes and ADH7), indicates that most ADH-alcoholism association studies have failed to consider many sites in theADH cluster that may harbor etiologically significant alleles and that the relevance of the various ADH sites will be population dependent.

TL;DR: An efficient strategy for identifying and characterizing single nucleotide polymorphisms is described, and that strategy is tested on a broad representation of world populations.

TL;DR: Fear of future infertility was an overriding factor in adolescents decisions to rely on induced abortion rather than contraception, and the need to educate adolescents about the mechanism of action of contraceptive agents and about their side effects in relation to unsafe abortion is paramount if contraceptive use is to be improved among Nigerian adolescents.