Jumia inaugurates exclusive breastfeeding campaign
Bukola Adebayo To reduce maternal and infant mortality rates in Nigeria,Jumia has partnered Audrey Pack on an exclusive breast feeding campaign. The Chief Executive Officer, Audrey Pack, Lilian Odim,...
View ArticleExercises can improve your pet’s health
Olufemi Oboye, C.E.O, K-9ine World LTD. 08033952937, drfemioboye@yahoo.com Exercising your pet will improve its health and fitness. In addition, it also helps to strengthen the bond between you and it....
View ArticleNGO seeks improved awareness on Rhesus disease
Bukola Adebayo The President and Initiator, Rhesus Solution Initiative, Mrs. Olufunmilayo Banire, has urged pregnant women and teenage girls to screen for the disease. She spoke at a briefing in Lagos...
View Article‘90% of northern babies delivered at home’
Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Association for the Advancement of Family Planning says 90 per cent of women in northern Nigeria give birth to their babies at home. The Chairman, Board of Trustees, AAFP,...
View ArticleDiabetes can lead to infertility
Oladapo Ashiru Diabetes is a non-communicable disease and it has become rampant in our society.It can now be likened to a plague. It is characterised by the absolute or reduced production of insulin, a...
View ArticleWhy you should not kiss your cat
Olufemi Oboye If you are pregnant please avoid direct contact with cats or cat faeces. The reason is that cats infected with a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii can transmit it to human beings that...
View ArticleLawmaker advises doctors to go into politics
Etim Ekpimah, Uyo the Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Dr. Olarewaju Tejuosho, has called on doctors in the country to go into politics. According to him, if doctors go into politics, they can...
View ArticleNURHI begs Oyo govt to recruit more health workers
Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative has appealed to the Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi to lift the embargo placed on the employment of health workers in the...
View ArticleLet’s still watch out for Ebola
Oladapo Ashiru, Professor of Anatomy/Consultant Reproductive Endocrinologist dapo.ashiru@medicalartcenter.com 0700 MARTCENTER Three cases of the Ebola Virus Disease have been confirmed in the...
View ArticleDangote bags international award for fight against malaria
Bukola Adebayo Malaria No More has honoured the Chairman of the Dangote Foundation, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, for his commitment to malaria elimination efforts. Dangote was recognised alongside Unites...
View ArticleContraceptive price slash excites African women
Results from the initial pilots of Sayana Press, a self-injectable contraceptive conducted in Niger, Senegal and Uganda has showed a strong demand for it among younger women and those who have never...
View ArticleWhy women urinate frequently
Rotimi Adesanya Child and Public Health Physician roayad@yahoo.com 08037202050 A woman, a beer parlour owner, who was passing urine frequently, was accused by husband of taking too much of what she...
View Article‘Every patient deserves a second medical opinion’
Bukola Adebayo The Project Consultant, Kinghaven Medical Second Opinion, Segun Olagundoye, has said that patients are within their rights to seek a second medical opinion on their health challenges....
View ArticleWHO gets first African head
Bukola Adebayo A former Minister of Health in Ethiopia, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is the first African to emerge as the Director-General of the World Health Organisation. Ghebreyesus who will...
View ArticleLiver cirrhosis can be managed with detoxification
Oladapo Ashiru One cannot live without a properly functioning liver. The liver is one of the largest organs in the body, and the most exposed to toxins as the liver works to keep us healthy. It...
View ArticleAnointing service drama: Angry Nigerians back sacked pastor, condemn Ambode’s...
Kunle Falayi and Samson Folarin In the wake of a PUNCH’s report on the sacking of the presiding Chaplain of Chapel of Christ the Light, Alausa, Lagos State, allegedly on the order of Governor Akinwunmi...
View ArticleNDDC to establish cancer centres across N’Delta
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday said that Deposit Money Banks in the country lost a total of N2.19bn to fraudsters in the 2016 fiscal period. The figure was contained in the...
View ArticleMen also suffer menopause (1)
Oladapo Ashiru We all know about the issue of female reproductive dysfunction, but most of us are unaware of the male aspect, which occurs as men grow older. Menopause continues to be a problem in the...
View ArticleCough mixture, agbo fuelling hypertension in Nigerian children – Cardiologists
Bukola Adebayo A professor of medicine with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Christy Okoromah, has linked indiscriminate use of cough syrups and herbal concoctions to the increasing...
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Psychological burden of raising children with sickle cell
Tola Dehinde I am going to try and empathise with parents who have children living with sickle cell anaemia. The trauma that you experience as you watch your child writhing in pain, after doing your...
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