A renowned medical practitioner Bayo Windapo of the Polybond medical services has said that cervical cancer is curable if it is detected early.

A team of scientists from Smart Cells International, United Kingdom, has urged Nigerians to embrace the practice of preserving their children’s stem cells at birth

TOWARDS improving skills of Nigerian medical doctors, Mansard Insurance Plc is annually funding postgraduate Fellowships in General Urology at the Pan-African Urological Surgeons Association’s
Initiative for Urological Training in Africa, PIUTA, Ibadan Centre, University of Ibadan and University College Hospital, Ibadan.

A new report – the “2013 Nigerian Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth” which focuses on physical activity as a major determinant of Non Communicable Diseases, NCDs, says Nigerian youths spend too much time watching TV

A PROFESSOR of pharmacology and former Chairman of the defunct Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Maurice Iwu, has called on Nigerians to consume food products produced within their immediate environment as a means of reducing and ultimately eliminating the risk of contracting Non Communicable Diseases, NCDs.

We are all human, so we have the right to complain when things are not the way we desire. However, as doctors they have the right to complain. But for once I don’t believe in strikes because people’s lives are endangered. Although, we also have a right to be comfortable, however there are various ways we can make the authorities listen to us, but when we go on strike as doctors, it is going to the extreme because life will be wasted.

TOWARDS mitigating the dearth of blood for patients requiring urgent transfusion in hospitals, a Non-Governmental Organisation, Sant Nirankari Mission, in conjunction with the Red Cross Society of Nigeria, recently held its Annual Blood Donation Camp in Lagos

Dr. Rukevwe Ugwumba is the Special Adviser, Health Monitoring to the Delta State Governor. Until she joined the Government of Delta State in August 2011, Dr. Ugwumba was an associate professor in Family Medicine, University of Saskatchewan in Canada. She graduated from the University of Benin in 1992, where she obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) with honours.

Grace was full of life few months ago. Today she is a shadow of herself. Two of her friends were discussing the development. This thing called breast cancer is very bad, the first friend stated. God help your own.

IBUKUN Olaniyi who lost her husband to kidney disease six years ago, has been a benefciary, along with her two sons and daughter, in the free healthcare programmes offer in Dopemu at Alimosho Local Government Area,Lagos.