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KEYPLAYERS in the healthcare sector; notably hygiene and healthcare, have harped on the need for Nigeria to take a cue for accelerated development of medicines that is relevant to Nigerians and Africans as a whole.

The ancient practice of “swaddling” a baby in a blanket, arms restrained and legs stretched out, is making a comeback, but experts warned Tuesday it was bad for infant hips.

DISTURBED by the rising cases of sudden death in Nigeria, particularly amongst the productive male and female age-groups, the Nigerian Medical Association has called on Federal Government to set up a free national check-up day in the country.

Minister of Health Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has reminded federal tertiary hospitals of the imperatives of ensuring compliance with the World Health Organization (WHO) checklist for surgical safety, saying it reduces and eliminates errors and negligence that are often hazardous to patients.

With 2,300 deaths of under-five and 145 women of childbearing age occurring every day in Nigeria, experts have called for the need to leverage on technology to reduce neonatal and maternal death rate in the country.

UNTIL a freak road traffic accident confined her to the wheelchair in October 2011, Uchenna Caroline Ikpe was a vibrant young woman with the world at her feet.

Patients at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, are counting their ordeals as resident doctors’ indefinite strike enters the fourth week.

MEN have been advised to keep away from their wives’ breasts while they are breast feeding their children to avoid inflicting wounds on the breasts and exposing the children to infection.

Colorectal cancer cases continue to grow globally largely fueled by a diet of processed convenience foods and a sedentary lifestyle void of regular exercise. But a research team from the University of Colorado Cancer Center has published the results of a study a journal, Cancer Letters demonstrating that the more advanced colorectal cancer cells are, the more Grape Seed Extracts, GSE inhibits their growth and survival. Conversely, GSE does not affect healthy cells and is shown to specifically target only cancerous cells. The authors note that this is an important finding in light of the increased number of late stage colon cancer cases currently being diagnosed.