Foods to help you sleep better
Adding these foods to your diet may help to increase your odds of a successful slumber. Some people have trouble falling asleep. Others can’t stay asleep. And then there are the people who have trouble...
View ArticleYour work and mental well-being
Adeoye Oyewole The medical world has celebrated many brilliant feats in the last century by reducing the incidence of communicable diseases through attacks on pathogenic organisms directly or...
View ArticleHealth concerns linked to red meat
Red meat (which technically includes any muscle meat from mammals, e.g. beef, veal, pork, lamb, mutton, goat, and, yes, horse, not that we think you’re going there) has long been linked to heart...
View ArticleCheck the caffeine level in your diet
Bukola Adebayo When you read this title, your mind is likely to go to coffee. You’re probably not the only one who thinks of this beverage whenever they hear the word, ‘caffeine’. But it is...
View ArticleNatural headache remedies
Life can get pretty busy and stressful, and the “common” headache is sometimes overlooked or masked with a painkiller (which, especially when overused, can sometimes cause more serious health issues. A...
View ArticleDoctors accuse CMDs of defying court orders
Success Nwogu, Ilorin The President, Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital chapter, Dr. Adegboyega Fakunle, has accused the Chief Medical Directors of 12...
View ArticleDiabetes: Novo Nordisk to screen 42,000 Nigerians
Bukola Adebayo To increase awareness about early diagnosis of diabetes, Novo Nordisk, a leading insulin manufacturing pharmaceutical company, has said that 42,000 Nigerians will benefit from its free...
View ArticleHow to give proper drug dosage to babies
Solaade Ayo-Aderele Anyone who has ever attempted to administer drugs on a baby would confess that it’s a stressful exercise for everyone concerned, including the baby. Experts warn that children are...
View ArticleBe the most confident person in the room
It can be easy to enter a house party or a networking event full of strangers and get overwhelmingly shy. Meeting new people is hard, and a knee-jerk reaction could be to hunch your shoulders and slink...
View ArticlePrevent cervical cancer, get vaccinated today
A medical breakthrough was reported on the BBC News last month. The world first cervical vaccine for Human Papilloma Virus made a positive impact on health care a decade after it was administered in...
View ArticleAdd some mushrooms to your soup
The health benefits of mushrooms include relief from high cholesterol levels, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and diabetes. It also helps in weight loss, and increases the strength of your immune...
View ArticleYour weight determines your fertility level
Oladapo Ashiru, Professor of Anatomy/Consultant Reproductive Endocrinologist, dapo.ashiru@medicalartcenter.com 0700 MARTCENTER, 234-8023195521 The science of getting pregnant and having healthy babies...
View ArticleTerrible pieces of advice for pregnant women
When you’re pregnant, your body is in one very literal sense no longer completely your own. But in another, more uncomfortable sense, it’s become a public entity—because complete strangers think it’s...
View ArticleTips- Sitting all day? Try planking
Too much sitting kills. Literally. It shaves years off of your life. Your daily hour-long workout doesn’t counter its effects either. The only solution is to get your body moving more often. So what...
View ArticleYour work and mental well-being
Adeoye Oyewole, Consultant Psychiatrist, adeoyewole2000@yahoo.com It is disturbing to know that the bulk of our non-governmental initiatives that address our health concerns such as HIV-AIDS,...
View ArticleTime to replace sugar with honey
Bukola Adebayo Many of us are guilty of this: we overdo sugar from time to time. This is apart from the fact that it is one of the most difficult foods to give up in life. Many of us have been hooked...
View ArticleNMA to support health care delivery in A’Ibom
Etim Ekpimah, Uyo The Nigerian Medical Association, Akwa Ibom State chapter, has promised to support the sector in the state, especially at the primary and secondary health care levels. The state NMA...
View ArticleOyo govt addressing LAUTECH doctors’ complaints –Commissioner
Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan The Oyo State Government has promised to address the complaints of doctors at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, who have been on half...
View ArticleNew mosquito-borne disease detected in Haiti
University of Florida researchers have identified a patient in Haiti with a serious mosquito-borne illness that has never before been reported in the Caribbean nation. Known as “Mayaro virus,” it is...
View ArticleAvoid roadside food to reduce risk of cholera
Bukola Adebayo Cholera has claimed six lives in Lagos following a fresh outbreak of the disease, while 39 other persons who contracted the food and water-borne infection are under observation. The...
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