Jim Ovia Foundation: Trustees

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Jto Fashion: MADE IN LAGOS: LEAFY PATTERNS

Welcome to the final post of the MADE IN LAGOS Series. It was such a blast shooting around the city in all these stunning clothes. I already can’t wait to return to Lagos this Summer and do the whole thing again! For the final outfit I wore a sheer Bridget Awosika shirt that has a beautiful green detail. I first saw it on the LFDW runway and instantly fell in love. This is the perfect summer button-up and will be great over jeans or to tucked into a skirt (as I have  demonstrated here!)

I real hope you enjoyed this series. let me know what your favourite look is by commenting below! Also, a special thank you to all the designers who collaborated with me on this.

Outfit Details:

Bridget Awosika Shirt

MSGM Skirt

Simone Rocha Mary Jane Flats

Zashadu Bag

Celine Sunglasses

Location: Queen’s Drive, Ikoyi

Photos by Ipinayo Ade-Akingboye

Makeup by Chioma Peggy

Hair by Adetunji Olafinlade
Source: Jtofashion.

ON: Mymetics' HIV vaccine candidate confirms promise in preclinical study

Let us be hopeful and pray, this might just be the end to the HIV virus disease. # Fingers crossed- OSCRoyal
Mymetics Corporation, a pioneer in the research and development of virosome-based vaccines to prevent transmission of human infectious diseases across mucosal membranes, announced today that its innovative HIV vaccine candidate has shown to generate significant protection in groups of twelve female monkeys against repeated AIDS virus exposures during part of the preclinical study.
The blinded study was led by Dr. Ruth Ruprecht, Scientist & Director of the Texas Biomed AIDS Research Program and was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. During the first part of the study the Mymetics' two-component virosome-based HIV vaccine was able to show significant efficacy of 87% in delaying the time to persistent infection versus the control group after 7 intravaginal virus challenges. The study aimed to mimic the exposure of women to semen from HIV-infected men, although the viral dose of each of these 7 animal challenges represented about 70,000 times the average human HIV dose passed during sexual intercourse from an HIV-infected male to an uninfected female.
During the second part of the study the animal viral challenge dose was increased by 50% starting from the 8th challenge onward, reaching more than 100,000 times the average amount of virus passed from an infected man to a female partner. At this virus dose, the vaccine did not show significant protection in the animals as the immune system was overloaded.
Dr. Ruth Ruprecht said, "We are encouraged by the initial strong protection provided by the vaccine candidate, which is in line with the results from an earlier primate study performed in China that we were asked to repeat. The fact that the vaccine-induced immune defenses were eventually overcome requires a careful analysis to understand the mechanisms of the initial vaccine action and to learn what other immune defenses can be enlisted to yield even more potent antiviral action."

Menstrual cups: Facts that proove their worth

Did you know that menstrual cups have around since the mid 1900's, before pads and tampons?... Well here is a killer; not all outdated stuff are meant to remain that way. Below are facts from yahoo news that show how important these cups are, hygiene related and otherwise. - OSCRoyal.

You’ve probably heard the buzz surrounding menstrual cups lately—from natural health blogs to TV shows (check out the clip below from Younger, where Hilary Duff asks Sutton Foster to remove hers), they’re the latest and greatest in period protection. But the most recent trend in “feminine hygiene” isn’t actually that new at all. They’ve been around since the mid-1900s, and women here in the U.S. are rediscovering the small silicone devices as a cost-effective, eco-friendly alternative to tampons and pads.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHRONIC INFLAMMATION AND MALIGNANCY

INTRODUCTION:

Definition of terms:

Chronic inflammation is inflammation of prolonged duration (weeks or years) in which continuing inflammation, tissue injury, and healing, often by fibrosis, proceed simultaneously.

Characteristics of inflammation:

Chronic inflammation is characterized by a different set of reactions:

1.       Infiltration with mononuclear cells, including macrophages, lymphocytes, and plasma cells.

2.       Tissue destruction, largely induced by the products of the inflammatory cells.

3.       Repair, involving new vessel proliferation (angiogenesis) and fibrosis.

Malignancy can be defined as a tendency to progress in virulence. In popular usage, it is any condition that, if uncorrected, tends to worsen so as to cause serious illness or death. Cancer is the best known example.

Deregulated inflammatory response plays a pivotal role in the initiation, development and progression of tumours. Potential molecular mechanism(s) that drive the establishment of an inflammatory-tumour microenvironment is not entirely understood owing to the complex cross-talk between pro-inflammatory and tumorigenic mediators such as cytokines, chemokines, oncogenes, enzymes, transcription factors and immune cells.

Factors affecting activation and deactivation of molecular mediators:

These molecular mediators are critical linchpins between inflammation and cancer, and their activation and/or deactivation are influenced by;

      1. Extrinsic (i.e. environmental and lifestyle)

      2. Intrinsic (i.e. hereditary) factors.

At present, the research pertaining to inflammation-associated cancers is accumulating at an exponential rate. Interest stems from hope that new therapeutic strategies against molecular mediators can be identified to assist in cancer treatment and patient management.

In a sense, tumours act as wounds that fail to heal (2).The hallmarks of cancer-related inflammation include the presence of inflammatory cells and inflammatory mediators (for example, chemokines, cytokines and prostaglandins) in tumour tissues, tissue remodelling and angiogenesis (growth of new blood vessels) similar to that seen in chronic inflammatory responses, and tissue repair.
Other terms:

Cytokines: A small protein released by cells that has a specific effect on the interactions between cells, on communications between cells or on the behavior of cells. The cytokines includes the interleukins, lymphokines and cell signal molecules, such as tumor necrosis factor and the interferons, which trigger inflammation and respond to infections.

Chemokine: One of a large group of proteins that act as lures and were first found attracting white blood cells. The chemokines are involved in a wide variety of processes including acute and chronic types of inflammation, infectious diseases, and cancer. Chemokines may lure cancer cells and help determine the sites to which cancer cells spread by metastasis.

Prostaglandin: One of a number of hormone-like substances that participate in a wide range of body functions such as the contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle, the dilation and constriction of blood vessels, control of blood pressure, and modulation of inflammation. Prostaglandins are derived from a chemical called arachidonic acid.

Research: Rich people avoid pessimists

Having tried to climb the ladder of greatness; succeeding one step at a time, I've realized that my major boost and commitment to greatness is surrounding myself with optimistic people. Sometimes I feel people are to optimistic, nursing dreams that are to big to achieve; but is there ever a dream too big to achieve?, we all struggle in the world we find ourselves to make a difference that makes us outstanding,. With two great minds, we can achieve four great dreams.- OSCRoyal

In fact, your friendships could have a major impact on your net worth.
After researching the daily habits of wealthy people for five years, author Thomas C. Corley found that they avoid one type of person at all costs: pessimists.

"Self-made millionaires are very particular about who they associate with," Corley writes in his book, "Change Your Habits, Change Your Life." "You are only as successful as those you frequently associate with. The rich are always on the lookout for individuals who are goal-oriented, optimistic, enthusiastic, and who have an overall positive mental outlook."

How To Get Pregnant Naturally By Increasing Your Egg Health In 90 Days

One of the common beliefs is that the only thing that helps to determine the health of an egg in a woman during her ovulation is simply through AGE.
Well, there are as well a lot more factors that has a general impact on the quality of the egg released during ovulation that also affect the fertility of a woman and that includes environmental factor, hormones in the diets, stress etc.
Now the truth about fertility in women is that it is based off four major areas which are
Proper circulation
Healthy fertility cycle
Balanced hormones
Healthy eggs
For you to get pregnant, you need an healthy egg because that is what actually leads to fertilization and pregnancy.

The Call: Breast Ironing should be made criminal offence

Practices are acts which become a part of us over time, "an illusion which can empower us or cause problems; becoming hindrance to the growth and health of a community. There has been calls for breast ironing to become a criminal offence in Britain, but this practice also happens in African and this call should be extended all around the world. Let's make the world a better place.#$mile, Oscroyal.
There are concerns more than a thousand women have been subjected to a practice known as "breast ironing" in Britain.

The ritual, which was originally carried out in parts of Africa, involves young girls having their breasts beaten, burnt and massaged in order to stop them developing.

The aim is to make women less attractive to the opposite sex so that they focus on school work.

It is almost always carried out by a girl's mother, in the privacy of their own home.

One woman, who we have called Lara, told Sky News she was subjected to mutilation when she reached adolescence.

She said: "They put the spatula on the fire and then they press it on the breast and yes, it hurts.

"Then it goes weak, it's like melting, fat melting and you can feel the breast going back… one of my breasts is bigger than the other one."

It is thought as many as a thousand girls may have suffered this violent mutilation while living in Britain.

A Freedom of Information request by the Conservative MP Jake Berry found almost a quarter of children's services are not trained to deal with the practice, whilst 15% of police forces were unaware it even existed.

A reconstruction of breast ironing, which experts say can cause cancer

Breast ironing is a secretive and brutal form of mutilation.

Heated objects are used to burn children's breasts. Many then have bands tied tightly around their chests.

Experts believe the ritual can cause cysts, abscesses, even breast cancer.

Fibroid:types, symptoms, causes

Women across the country experience fibroid growth and development in the uterus which cause heavy periods and abnormal large mass that sometimes requires surgery. Awareness on fibroid and its causes, symptoms aanD types gives an insight on what fibroid is.- Oscroyal.
Fibroids are abnormal growths that develop in or on a woman’s uterus. Sometimes, these tumors become quite large and cause severe abdominal pain and heavy periods. In other cases, they cause no signs or symptoms at all. The growths are typically benign (noncancerous). Another medical term for fibroids is "leiomyoma" (leye-oh-meye-OH-muh) or just "myoma".

Fibroids can grow as a single tumor, or there can be many of them in the uterus. They can be as small as an apple seed or as big as a grapefruit. In unusual cases they can become very large.

About 70 to 80 percent of women develop fibroids by the time they reach age 50. Fibroids are most common in women in their 40s and early 50s. Not all women with fibroids have symptoms. Women who do have symptoms often find fibroids hard to live with. Some have pain and heavy menstrual bleeding. Fibroids also can put pressure on the bladder, causing frequent urination, or the rectum, causing rectal pressure. Should the fibroids get very large, they can cause the abdomen (stomach area) to enlarge, making a woman look pregnant.