Health

It is not until a person runs wild in the street in tattered clothing and disheveled appearance that such a person could be said to be having mental health issues. Yet, mental health issues as […]

If you are a middle-aged man and want to know if you are going to die in the next five years, you simply need to ask yourself how healthy you think you are. Whether you […]

Recently, researchers at Welcome Trust, a British non-profit organisation raised alarm at the increasing antibiotic-resistant typhoid across Africa and Asia, which is currently posing a major global health threat. The researchers, who have been tracking […]

In this interview with Patrick Ugbechie, our Executive Health writer, DR. (MRS) TOYIN AMIRA, Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician at the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital, LUTH, expounds the need for people to undergo regular […]

With increased deaths recorded in Nigeria in 2014, tuberculosis may already have a foothold in the country. Busayo Adekoya writes about efforts to check the disease Mustapha Zainab, 28, a housewife and a mother of […]

A new strain of fungi, Cryptococcus gatti, established as the cause of severe brain and lung infections that resulted in many deaths in the United States may be headed for Nigeria and other countries in […]

Yes, all foods may quench your hunger but not all food would satiate your body’s nutritional needs. In fact, some foods even expose the body to health hazards than you probably know. One food that […]

The Ebola virus has been detected for the first time in an eye of a patient months after it vanished from his blood, researchers said Thursday. Dr. Ian Crozier, an American doctor, was diagnosed with […]

NIGERIANS and indeed people from all races need not die from cancers and malaria any longer. United States and Nigerian researchers have, in two recent but separate studies published in reputable medical journals, validated the […]

When I met members of a women’s secret society in Sierra Leone this February, they proposed drastic measures to stop Ebola from spreading through sexual contact. All survivors should be quarantined for three months, they […]

Having lost 29kg of excess weight through a natural process within one year, Adesola Odukomaiya, managing director, Blossom 45, a health coach and wellness mentor, gives tips to a healthy lifestyle, writes Funke Olaode The […]

The recent dismal reports in some Nigerian tabloids on the high rate of the incidence of kidney diseases are frightening, especially because they concern the productive sector of the country’s demography: the youth. Incidentally and […]

The Chief Executive Officer, Natural Healing Alternatives, Dr. Leye Popoola has revealed that the type of food eating by men and their health status can play a major role in their masculinity and reproductive ability. […]

Being depressed is really not enjoyable. Depression takes many forms for many different people – some people have highs and lows, some have major depression, some have functional days and others never do. Depression can […]

Colon cancer is the third most common cancer in Nigerian men (after prostate and liver cancer) and the fourth most common cancer in Nigerian women (after breast, cervical and liver cancer). Every two hours, a […]

The alarming increase in the number of people suffering from glaucoma disease in Nigeria has become a source of concern for a group of ophthalmologists at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital in Osun State. […]

TUBERCULOSIS, commonly known as TB, is an infectious bacterial disease characterised by the growth of nodules or tubercles in the human respiratory organs, especially the lungs. It is a curable communicable infection that is transmitted […]

His fame does not yet that match of heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard. But fellow South African André van der Merwe’s phone has hardly stopped ringing in the week since it was announced that he […]

NAFDAC, FDA alert on drug’s adverse effects  • Urge Nigerians to report cases to care provider REGULAR and indiscriminate intake of painkillers, especially Paracetamol, has been blamed for the rising cases of heart attacks, stroke […]

If the current efforts by local scientists and researchers are sustained and encouraged by the Federal Government, very soon Nigeria will get an indigenous herbal remedy that will be accepted internationally for the management of HIV/AIDS. […]