Want to live a longer, healthier life? One way is to keep your blood pressure at optimal levels as you age — preferably below 120 systolic (the top number) and 80 diastolic (the lower number). […]
Committed to reduce the burden of maternal mortality across the country, Managing Director, Nigeria Health Watch, Vivianne Ihekweazu, has called for improved access to appropriate and quality maternal healthcare and medicines during childbirth. According to […]
With winter approaching, the UK is entering the traditional seasons for colds and flu, with the additional complication this year that symptoms of those two illnesses can be broadly similar to those experienced by people […]
The precarious situation in our health institutions continues to be a source of worry to all. Before now, stakeholders in the health sector have cried out over the deplorable conditions that have taken a heavy […]
The richest one percent of people are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the poorest half of the world’s population — 3.1 billion people — new research showed Monday. Despite a […]
*Weak regulatory environment, chaotic drug distribution channels stall progress, says PSN Pharmacy practice and education are critical to the success of the healthcare delivery system. This is evident in availability, accessibility of quality, safe and […]
When plastic surgery is mentioned in Nigeria, what readily comes to the mind is the aesthetic aspect, commonly called cosmetic surgery. The popularity of aesthetic surgery, no doubt, is because of recent quest of women […]
Medical experts have tasked the National Assembly to make laws that can guarantee free treatment for sickle cell children under the age of five. Speaking at the launch of Muyiwa Talabi Exchange Blood Transfusion (EBT) […]
In light of September being sickle cell awareness month, I will be sharing real life stories of those living directly or indirectly with sickle cell. I hope enjoy the story below. Barely had my mother […]
After my last article on recommendations for the resolution of the public health issues arising from the use of fruits, it occurred to me to ask you, my esteemed reader, whether you consider the home […]
Although the sun has been quite scorching and temperature low, especially in the evenings, making many people to be indoors so as to keep warm. To avoid coming down with health conditions such as cold […]
Scientists have made four major advances in search cures for hangover, diabetes, coughs and colds and drug resistant germs. New researches showed that honey is more effective than antibiotics for curing coughs and colds as […]
Glands are lymph nodes. They are part of the lymphatic system, which fights infection in the body. Glands in many different parts of the body can become swollen. Medically, swollen glands are called lymphadenopathy. The […]
Every day, Abdulazeez Lateef goes about the streets of Lagos with a conspicuous gash on his forehead, and a growing worry about how to get rid of the festering sore spreads to other parts of […]
It’s hard to express — let alone process, grapple with, grasp — the scale of death that’s taken place in America. As a result not just of a deadly pandemic — but of the incompetence, […]
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Genetically Modified (GM) organisms/foods are those derived from organisms whose genetic material has been modified in a way that does not occur naturally, that is, through the introduction […]
In the distant past, before the coming of the white people to Africa, diseases such as Tuberculosis, Smallpox, Malaria, Sickle cell anaemia, and others decimated the populations of many kingdoms in Africa. Then, a woman, […]
The social media has gone agog twice in eight weeks on issues arising from claims form Pax Herbal, a trado-medical and pharmaceutical ministry run by Catholic Benedictine monks, and disclaimers from National Agency for Food […]
Dr. Stella Immanuel, the woman who took the world by storm last month when she claimed that Hydroxychloroquine is the potential cure for Coronavirus, is in the news again. This time, he said God has […]
Barely a month after she gave birth to her first daughter, Halima Ibrahim took ill in late February, about the same time Nigeria recorded its index case of COVID-19 in an Italian traveller. “I was diagnosed with […]
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