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A 20 year old woman who has stayed in marriage for 8 years has for the second time delivered a stone instead of a baby. Reports says that a woman given the same stone last year and it is very...

San Antonio, Principe Africa September 8, 2009 Just off the coast of West Africa, a couple of island rain forests hide a cornucopia of pharmaceuticals within their lush rain forests. The natural drugs are used in effectively treating all kinds...

Despite the pain inflicted upon girls to have their genitalia partially or totally removed, when they are women they insist their daughters undergo this dangerous and excruciating procedure. Their belief is that it ensures their daughters to be marriageable. Marriage,...

Medical experts say tobacco-related illnesses are becoming a serious health issue in Africa as a new report warns tobacco use may double in some parts of the continent during the next 12 years. The report, from the Global Smokefree Partnership,...

A new strain of the HIV virus has been found in an unnamed 62-year-old woman from Cameroon. The now Paris, France resident tested positive for the HIV virus in 2004 after moving from Cameroon but her case was not subtyped...

The woman, an unnamed schoolteacher from the town of Gafsa, says she conceived the 12 babies through fertility treatments. Local fertility experts have confirmed that the Tunisian woman, who had suffered several miscarriages, is indeed pregnant with 12 babies--six boys...