Review on the impact of heavy metals from industrial wastewater effluent and removal technologies.

The incidence of water pollution in developing countries is high due to the lack of regulatory policies and laws that protect water bodies from anthropogenic activities and industrial wastewater. Industrial wastewater contains significant amounts of heavy metals that are detrimental to human health, aquatic organisms, and the ecosystem. The focus of this review was to evaluate the sources and treatment methods of wastewater, with an emphasis on technologies, advantages, disadvantages, and innovation.

The Clinical Utility of Kidney Cortical Thickness in assessing severity of CKD in Low Income Setting.

Background: Renal Ultrasound Scan (RUS) is known to have an important role in assessing kidney function in healthy people and people with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) with the kidney length (KL) being the most commonly used measure. The Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) is the gold standard in kidney function assessment and its strength of correlation with a RUS measure is used in ascertaining the reliability of that RUS measure.

Objectives: To compare the strength of correlations between the GFR and RUS measures like KL and cortical thickness (CT) in healthy people and people with CKD.

Risk Factor Characterization of Ischemic Stroke Subtypes Among West Africans.

Background And Purpose: To identify the qualitative and quantitative contributions of conventional risk factors for occurrence of ischemic stroke and its key pathophysiologic subtypes among West Africans.

Methods: The SIREN (Stroke Investigative Research and Educational Network) is a multicenter, case-control study involving 15 sites in Ghana and Nigeria. Cases include adults aged ≥18 years with ischemic stroke who were etiologically subtyped using the A-S-C-O-D classification into atherosclerosis, small-vessel occlusion, cardiac pathology, other causes, and dissection.

Production of activated carbon from sawdust and its efficiency in the treatment of sewage water.

When water is contaminated and rendered unfit for drinking, it is regarded as waste, which leads to water pollution. Several works have been done to control water pollution, yet this topic is still a point of concern up to date. The study involves the production of activated carbon (AC) using sawdust to treat sewage water obtained from Covenant University.

Anticonvulsant activity of Hedranthera barteri.

Context: Hedranthera barteri (Hook.f.) Pichon (Apocynaceae) is used traditionally in the treatment of convulsion in Southern Nigeria.