Too much light at night may quietly affect your heart
If your bedroom isn’t completely dark at night, a new study suggests it may be worth taking a closer look at how much light reaches
Man, 64, suffers stroke 10 times in 10 years
Stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and it is likely to worsen in developing countries such as Nigeria over the next two decades based on projections by the World Health Organisation.
NAFDAC cautions farmers on pesticides
THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has cautioned farmers on the safe use of pesticides as it is highly dangerous to health, even as it is set to empower 2,000 of its staff on farm production while in active service.
Nutrition expert trumps up benefit of Olympic milk
A Consultant and advocate of healthy living, fitness and lifestyle, Dr. Bisi Abiola, has said that adequate intake of milk fortifies the human body against diseases and supplies essential nutritional requirement for healthy living.
Inadequate funding, low access threaten Nigeria’s TB control programme
By Sola Ogundipe INSUFFICIENT funding and poor access to proper treament services are hampering Nigeria’s efforts to combat the menace of tuberculosis, a disease that killed an estimated 1.5 million people in 2013 including 360,000 people who were living with HIV. Although Nigeria has developed a new National Strategic Plan on TB, it documents a […]
Inadequate funding, low access threaten Nigeria’s TB control programme
INSUFFICIENT funding and poor access to proper treament services are hampering Nigeria’s efforts to combat the menace of tuberculosis, a disease that killed an estimated 1.5 million people in 2013 including 360,000 people who were living with HIV.
