A nutritionist, Mrs Iyanu Adeyemo has said that sugarcane can cure common cold, fever, other infections and also boost body’s protein levels. Adeyemo noted that sugarcane is rich in antioxidants which help to fight infections and boost immunity. According to her, sugarcane is rich in iron, magnesium, calcium and other electrolytes which are good for […]
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Gender Perspective and Social Development Centre (GPSDC) members at the launch of the Stop Violence Against Women in Politics campaign. No fewer than 52 cases of electoral violence against women were recorded before and during the just concluded governorship election in Anambra State, the Gender Perspective and Social Development Centre (GPSDC) has revealed. Executive Director, […]
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The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has disclosed the Federal Government’s plans to regulate sodium consumption by Nigerians through packaged foods. Ehanire stated this at the first multi-sectoral stakeholders’ meeting of Nigeria’s Sodium Reduction Study, jointly organised by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control and the University of Abuja. Represented by […]
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A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, February 6, 2020. Reuters/Denis Balibouse/File Photo A raging measles outbreak has sickened thousands and killed nearly 100 in crisis-ravaged Afghanistan this year, the World Health Organization said Friday, […]
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Photo: Google Image By Tijani Salami I was talking to a fellow physician a few days ago that had recently treated a 70-year-old woman with cervical cancer. Upon examination it turned out she was infected with schistosomiasis, a parasitic worm, commonly known as bilharzia. It is quite likely that her long-term infection with the schistosomiasis parasite […]
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Credit: https://str8talkmagazine.com • 70% of people with ailment not aware of their status • Africans suffering from disease predicted to rise to 55m by 2045 Ahead of World Diabetes Day (WDD) on November 14, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), yesterday, said an estimated 24 million people are living with […]
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Barbecued fish A medical practitioner Prof. Henry Urochukwu has warned that eating meat or fished wrapped and barbecued with aluminium foil is dangerous with consumers risk developing cancer in the long run. He stated this in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state while presenting a lecture during the 10th President Installation/Award ceremony of the Medical Women […]
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The Federal Government has frowned at the increasing number of unaccredited and ill-equipped medical laboratories across the country. It has directed that such laboratories have until 2025 to get accredited and standardised, or risk being shut down or prosecuted, in the case of quacks posing as professionals. The Registrar of the Medical Laboratory Science Council […]
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A baby receives a dose of the RTS,S vaccine for malaria in Cape Coast, Ghana in 2019. Credit: Cristina Aldehuela/AFP/Getty/Nature With the recent endorsement of the long-expected first malaria vaccine, RTS, S/AS01 (RTS,S), by the World Health Organisation (WHO), children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high Plasmodium falciparum transmission will, […]
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Ngozi Ebunoluwa Anozie is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Care Organisation Public Enlightenment (COPE), a breast cancer awareness network set up in 1995 and committed to reducing the mortality rate of breast cancer through Screening, Counseling, Referrals, Education, Enlightenment and Nurturing (SCREEN). On the other hand, Ngozi Ejedimu is a lawyer, entrepreneur, breast […]
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