Health
Is ponmo dangerous for my health?
I love eating Ponmo (dried cow hide). Unfortunately, I recently read that the delicacy is harmful as it contains some ...
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I have epileptic seizures
I am a 19 year old student. My problem is that I have had epileptic seizures for over a year ...
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Gunshot wounds and the police
I am a Medical Doctor in General Practice. Once in a while I come across patients who report with gunshot ...
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Kano targets 3.8m Children for meningitis vaccination
Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has said in the determination of the present administration to final push to get ...
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HIV/AIDS: KWASACA screens Ilorin market women
Kwara State AIDS Control Agency (KWASACA) has taken sensitization, counselling and testing services to Baboko New Market, popularly called Oja ...
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Your body may develop resistance to antibiotics after consuming chicken, eggs ― Expert
As the yuletide sets in, it is pertinent that Nigerians should know that consuming chicken or chicken eggs from an ...
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Fluted pumpkin seeds candidate for male contraceptives —Scientists
Some components of the human diets are believed to be promising male contraceptive agents. Now, fluted pumpkin seeds may be ...
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Swedish bitters reduce antibiotic effectiveness —Experts
Herbal medicines have emerged as a common choice therapy for self-care among individuals and are now taking a more active ...
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African garden egg perfect food option for diabetes
NUTRITIONISTS recommend African garden egg as a perfect food option for those interested in losing weight because of its high ...
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Teachers and the power of the spoken word
UNICEF estimates that a billion children attend school everyday and many children spend about a third of their days in ...
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Emotional wellbeing in the work place
Tunde and Musa work in a department where the new Head (Mr Ojo) is always screaming at everybody and insulting ...
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Illegal and inhumane treatment centres: After the rescue, what next?
THE news cycle has been aflush with gory details of the hundreds of citizens who were recently rescued from illegal ...
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Ita-Giwa turns passion to business
‘Mama Bakassi’ as female politician, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, is known is a woman favoured with the gift of turning everything ...
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What push-ups can tell about your heart
Can you do 40 push ups? No, not over the course of a month, but in a row? If not, ...
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Five menstruation myths you must leave behind
Approximately half of the world’s population experiences, will experience, or has experienced menstruation, and yet myths about this biological process ...
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Which infant-carrying technique should a mother use?
ACROSS Africa, women can be seen carrying sleeping or sometimes giggling babies on their backs, swathed in cloth. The babies ...
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Boys born to older mothers have a higher risk of heart problems — Study
BOYS born to older mothers may be at a higher risk of having heart problems, according to a study on ...
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A midlife crisis may raise dementia risk, experts warn
RESEARCHERS found women who were happy and had high self-esteem in their 50s were less likely to develop the memory-robbing ...
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Born too soon: Retinopathy of prematurity
Contribution by Dr Mary Ugalahi – a consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist Last week, we read about the heart rendering story of ...
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Born Too Soon — Accessing the right care, at the right time, in the right place
A 40-year-old woman, Iveren, had waited five long years after marriage for the fruit of the womb. She and her ...
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Are medical doctors against optometrists being called eye doctors?
A few weeks ago, my young nephew, Sam, a final year medical student, asked, “Dr. Ben, why do medical doctors ...
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