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Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

Thursday, 3 October 2013

Hmmm! Doctors’ strike paralyses public hospitals

Hmmm! Doctors’ strike paralyses public hospitals The strike embarked upon by members of the National Association of Resident Doctors has paralysed activities in public hospitals acro...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

HIV infection is a blessing to me – Says 24 Year-Old Girl, Diagnosed HIV Positive at 12

HIV infection is a blessing to me – Says 24 Year-Old Girl, Diagnosed HIV Positive at 12 From the depths of distress, disillusionment, dejection and the certainty of untimely death occasioned by HIV infection through blood tran...

Sunday, 14 July 2013

OJB halts donations, set for surgery in August

OJB halts donations, set for surgery in August OJB All has been set for music producer Ojb jezreel’s surgery as he announced in a conference during the week. The producer said “ I Appre...

Sunday, 7 July 2013

Pregnant Mothers Using Cellphones Could Harm Their Unborn Babies

Pregnant Woman With A Child Cellphone radiation exposure during pregnancy impacts fetal brain development and may cause...

Friday, 5 July 2013

Simple swaps = Healthy weight-loss results

Trying to figure out how to get skinny? Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to resort to a calorie-crash diet or exercise two...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

How safe are Chinese herbal drugs?

Since time immemorial, traditional medicine has been practiced in Nigeria and even till today, a large percentage of the population still ...

Monday, 1 July 2013

5 tips to improve your sleep

Ever heard of beauty sleep? Yea, that’s exactly what it means. Sleep is an essential part of our lives, as without sleep, we won’t be able ...

Pregnant or not, take Folic acid!

If you are pregnant (Whether it is your first or subsequent pregnancy),you need to know that having a healthy baby that is free of any ser...

Sunday, 30 June 2013

New silicone breast implants debut

Good news for breast “connoisseurs” as the revolutionary MemoryShape breast implants have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administ...

Thursday, 27 June 2013

Unilorin VC, Others Raise Fund for Student’s Kidney Transplant

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Abdul Ganiyu Ambali, Monday, kept alive the dream of one of his students, a ren...

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Women who take iron during pregnancy have 'bigger and healthier babies'

Women in low-income countries are particularly at risk from iron deficiency during pregnancy Taking daily iron supplemen...

Friday, 21 June 2013

CANCER: Only 20% of children recover in Nigeria – Expert

FOUNDER of the Children Living With Cancer Foundation, Dr. Nneka Nwobbi, has said that  only 20 percent of Nigerian children plagued by ca...

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Headaches, hypertension and stroke

Oladapo Ashiru | credits: File copy There is a direct link between headaches, high blood pressure (or hypertension) and stroke. If ...

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

US program marks birth of one millionth HIV-free baby

An Eritrean man is seen passing by an anti-Aids billboard in Assab city, on Febuary 17, 1999. By Amr Nabil (AFP/File) ...

COSMESTIC SURGERY: Why I want to enlarge my breasts... —CoCoIce

Sarah Mojisola Sowole, popularly known as CoCoIce, is a born rap star. The “It’s me” crooner has, no doubt, brought swags into the enterta...

Monday, 17 June 2013

Waking up to urinate could decrease your productivity – Study

Do you know that waking up to urinate could actually decrease your productivity? This is what elderly persons  who have difficulty sleeping...

Friday, 14 June 2013

We’ve equipped 7 hospitals for kidney transplant – Health Minister

ABUJA — Seven tertiary hospitals in Nigeria have been equipped with state-of-the–art facilities and personnel to undertake kidney transpla...

Friday, 7 June 2013

‘Oral Sex Gave Me Throat Cancer’ – Hollywood Actor, Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas Hollywood actor,  Michael Douglas  says years of performing oral sex on women may have triggered his throat cancer. Accord...

Sunday, 2 June 2013

Cancer: ‘Chemotherapy May Not Offer Full Recovery’

A recent study has shown that people receiving treatment for serious cancers may harbour false hopes for a full recovery. The researchers f...

Friday, 31 May 2013

Iodine Deficiency May Lower IQs

School children are believed to be affected by iodine deficiency Mild iodine deficiency during pregnancy could be dimming the intelle...