Men with numerous lovers have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer-because they have more sex, scientists say.

THE comparatively high cost of drugs in Nigeria has long been recognised as one of the factors contributing to inaccessibility to affordable healthcare services by majority of Nigerians. The situation is worsened by unavailability of reliable health insurance plans to the generality of the masses who continue to pay out of pocket.

Nigerian-born Dr. Bennet Omalu, currently the Chief Medical Examiner, San Joaquin County, California, and President/Medical Director of Bennet Omalu Pathology, was the first to identify, describe and name a new disorder known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, CTE, as a disease entity in American football players and wrestlers.

LOVERS of traditional medicines in Nigeria must hear this. Any herbal medicine to be used in the country must have gone through a scientific evaluation in order to minimise the rampant cases of negative health consequences arising from use of such medicines. This is the latest directive by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC.

As the world signals the end of the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, commitment period and the start of SDGs, all pointers have shown that Nigeria is making empty promises without actions to the commitment to reduce maternal death in the country. In the Millennium Development Goals Report 2014, India has an estimated 50,000 maternal deaths (17 per cent), and Nigeria, with an estimated 40,000 maternal deaths (14 per cent).