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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The Founder, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola, on Wednesday thumbed up the university’s multi-system hospital for the various exploits it had been doing since establishment, saying it had come to end outward medical tourism in Nigeria. Babalola, who spoke against the backdrop of the first kidney transplant in the hospital, said, “This […]
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; son, Uchechi Iweala. Source: Twitter; Center for Advanced Orthopedics Dr. Uchechi Iweala, son of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonji-Iweala, has broken a medical record in Maryland, United States. On Thursday, the WTO boss announced that her son was one of the first spinal surgeons in Maryland to perform a […]
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•From left: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Vice President Osinbajo; Ogun State Governor, Mr. Dapo Abiodun and Chairman Duchess International Hospital, Dr. Onabowale, at the launch of Duchess International Hospital in Lagos … last weekend The Duchess International Hospital, a purpose-built 100-bed, fully ensuite hospital facility offering primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare services across […]
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•Founder of ABUAD, Aare Afe Babalola (2nd left), his wife, Yeye Aare Modupe Babalola (middle) and the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Smaranda Olarinde (2nd right) and others with the patient at the VIP ward of the Hospital The procedure at the dedicated twin-transplant theatre of ABUAD Multi-system Hospital With its first kidney transplant successfully performed last week, […]
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In commemoration of Breast cancer awareness month held throughout October, Medicaid Cancer Foundation, owned by a paediatrician and First Lady of Kebbi State, Dr Zainab Shinkafi Bagudu, is set to host Nigeria’s biggest cancer walk on today, 16th October 2021. Aimed at creating awareness for breast, cervical and prostate cancer, the group 5km walk will […]
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