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Today November 9, 2017 is celebrated as World Freedom Day. Here at BrainWave, we wish to focus on what it really means to be free. Who is free? Free from what? Are there degrees of freedom? Is true freedom free or does it come at a price? Freedom does not connote a freedom from responsibilities and duties. ‘’Emancipate yourself from mental slavery’’ – so sang late Bob Marley in the last century. I imagined he was especially speaking to blacks all around the world. Look around at Nigeria and the condition of its peoples. Take a cursory glance at the headlines and commentaries on news channels and social media. What are the trending issues? What matters trouble the leaders – political, religious, traditional etc? What are the supposed elites, intellectuals and middle class obsessed with? Maybe tithes? 2019? Cows? Politics without humanity? Or are we bothered at our retrogression more than half a century after supposed political freedom from the colonialists...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-wounds-bodyclock/wounds-sustained-at-night-heal-twice-as-slowly-scientists-find-idUSKBN1D82U9 On the very important finding coming out today of the significant effect that the human biological clock has on wound healing and repair. Simply, there is evidence that injury that occurs between 8pm -8am takes twice as long to heal as those occurring in the daytime ( because the cells involved in the healing process are basically obeying nature's call to sleep at night!). Yes, fibroblasts were involved in this stud y, but could the others cells do same? The interesting angle for me is the extrapolation to neurological injury. Is it better to have a stroke in the daytime than at night? Do nocturnal seizures cause more persistent damage to the brain (thus more neurological impairment) than daytime seizures? Going further, does this effect have any relationship to survival and recovery from acute coronary syndromes? Does this s...