Why we introduced NHE Awards — Global Health
Global Health Project and Resources has said that it decided to establish the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Awards in collaboration with Anadach Group, USA, because of the need to promote quality...
View Article‘60 million Nigerians lack access to clean water’
Friday Olokor, Jos WaterAid Nigeria, an international charity NGO, has urged the Federal Government to make access to clean water, decent sanitation and good hygiene a priority to enable the country...
View ArticleLiver cirrhosis, liver cancer and detoxification
Oladapo Ashiru Professor of Anatomy/Consultant Reproductive Endocrinologist dapo.ashiru@medicalartcenter.com 0700 MARTCENTER One cannot live without a properly functioning liver. The liver is one of...
View ArticleNGO tackles liver inflammation
Yinka Badejo Many residents of Lagos turned out for a charity walk recently organised by a non-governmental organisation, LG-Rhythms, in conjunction with Longrich Bio-science, to raise awareness about...
View ArticleHow to manage sleeplessness
Rotimi Adesanya A businessman, who usually shuttled between Lagos and London, always complained of sleeplessness. He was eventually admitted in a hospital and given the assurance that he would enjoy...
View ArticlePharmacy academy urges government to retain drugs on exclusive list
Yinka Badejo The Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy has called for the retention of medicines on the Exclusive List, advising that it would be counter-productive and exceedingly damaging to Nigeria if they...
View ArticleManaging post-partum back pain
Rotimi Adesanya Child and Public Health Physician roayad@yahoo.com 08037202050 A reader sent this question last week: ‘Please I want to know the cause and remedy of back and waist pain’. The back ache...
View ArticleWHO warns against unknown Disease X
The World Health Organisation has revealed in a statement, a mysterious “Disease X”, capable of causing a global pandemic in the future. The organisation released a list of diseases it considers...
View ArticleACPN urge FG to close down open drug markets
Eric Dumo The Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria has called on the government to close down all open drug markets in the country, as failure to do so would further aggravate the abuse of...
View ArticlePremature ovarian failure
Oladapo Ashiru Premature ovarian failure –also known as primary ovarian insufficiency – is a loss of normal function of your ovaries before age 40. If your ovaries fail, they don’t produce reasonable...
View ArticleWe need sex offender registry to deter rapists –Onyerinma
Founder, Live Abundantly Empowerment Initiative, Dr. Ama Onyerinma, talks about ways to check sexual abuse of the girl-child with YINKA BADEJO Defilement of the girl child appears to be on the increase...
View Article70% of drugs used in Nigeria are imported – PSN
Success Nwogu, Ilorin The President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Ahmed Yakasai, on Tuesday said that about 70 per cent of drugs used in Nigeria are imported. Speaking during a briefing held in...
View ArticleGambari, Kuku, others call for global action against diabetes
A Former Nigerian Representative at the United Nations, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari and the Co-founder of the EKO Hospital Group, Dr. Sonny Kuku, have urged government at all levels to save more lives in the...
View ArticleEffect of environmental toxins on our reproductive system
Oladapo Ashiru Last week, I attended a symposium organised by the International Federation of Fertility Societies and the African fertility Society in Kampala, Uganda. I presented a lecture on the...
View ArticleNDA, Unilever stage oral health walk
Yinka Badejo The Nigeria Dental Association, in collaboration with Unilever Nigeria, manufacturers of Pepsodent Toothpaste, held a walk in Lagos last Friday to celebrate the World Oral Health Day....
View ArticleThat blister is a symptom of herpes infection
Rotimi Adesanya In Nigeria, patients who developed fever blisters on their lips or by the side of the mouth usually assume that they have malaria fever. Most of them even inform the doctor that they...
View ArticleEdo to build 500 new centres to boost health care
Alexander Okere, Benin The Edo State Government has said that it is planning to construct 500 primary health care centres in the state in order to promote the implementation of the Compulsory Health...
View ArticleDo you crack your knuckles?
Dr. Sylvester Ikhisemojie In the usual manner in which some of the things we do ordinarily get to be interpreted in many different ways, none is more interesting than the simple act we often partake in...
View ArticleSome Nigerians think kids with disabilities are demonic –Mother of...
Bukola Ayinde is the mother of a girl with cerebral palsy allegedly abused by her therapist. She talks about the current state of her five-year-old daughter among other issues with GBENGA ADENIJI What...
View ArticleFrequent sex can’t cause erectile dysfunction — Expert
A consultant endocrinologist and diabetologist at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Dr. Michael Olamoyegun, discusses erectile dysfunction, causes and...
View Article