Health

A decline in funding by donor agencies might threaten the search for a vaccine for Human Immuno-deficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV-AIDS).This was revealed yesterday in a 2016 document ahead of the 9th International AIDS Society....

The Nigeria chapter of the West African College of Physicians (NACP) yesterday called for the provision of specialised services for the people of the West African sub-region through stronger healthcare delivery system.

A hypoallergenic electronic sensor can be worn on the skin continuously for a week without discomfort, and is so light and thin that users forget they even have it on, says a Japanese group of scientists.

Being highly active reduces the risk of chronic lower back pain by 16 per cent, new research reveals. Regular moderate activity lowers the risk by 14 per cent, a study review found.

We are not born with the tendency to dislike people who are different. That is according to a new study that claims discrimination against unfamiliar people is a learned trait.

While in economically stable countries, death from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases come from long and productive life, in developing countries almost half of such deaths occur among people in the prime of their age.

Gonorrhoea affects over 78 million people worldwide each year, mostly older teenagers and adults. It is mainly spread by having unprotected vaginal, oral or anal sex.

People see dental practice as expensive because they don’t have access to it. They don’t even know that they should go to a dentist and not general hospital when they have tooth ache.

DTOF was established initially as a Social media initiative of Dr. Anthony Chukwunonso Ude (Narcolepsy), a radiologist in-training at the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, Oyo State.

They opined that majority of the 3.5 per cent growth rate of the sickle cell crisis, which result in going to Emergency Rooms or hospitals can be treated at home, enabling the patients live a long and productive life.

Fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans and legumes, nuts and seeds, fish (preferably oily fish with lots of omega-3 fatty acids), skinless poultry, and plant-based alternatives, low-fat and fat-free dairy products, healthier fats and non-tropical oils

Prof. Elizabeth Egbochukwu of the Department of Educational Evaluation and Counselling Psychology, University of Benin, Edo State, has lamented the increasing cases of mental health disorder in the country.