Sunday, May 19th, 2013
Last week, the Acting Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Dr Abdulrahaman Sambo, in a two hour interaction with health correspondents in Abuja, revealed the many challenges his agency was facing in its effort to make healthcare services accessible to Nigerians...
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
Simultaneously last week in Lagos and Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, experts gathered to deliberate on one major concern which was mutually exclusive,
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
“The huge crowd that is often seen at any of the out-patient clinic of public hospitals can be so scary to any doctor who means well and have planned to meet up with the demands of all his patients as much as possible on any...
Sunday, April 28th, 2013
Last Thursday in Kenya, East Africa, a new technology to tackle the burden of malaria in endemic continent of Africa was launched.
Sunday, April 21st, 2013
The first of the millennium development goals aims at eradicating extreme poverty and hunger in the world by 2015 while goal number four aims at reducing child mortality. According to Nutrition experts, both goals are interrelated and co-exist especially in the lives of young people...
Sunday, April 21st, 2013
Beginning from Saturday, April 20, the entire world commenced the world immunisation week which the World Health Organisation has declared with a theme: “Protect your world, get vaccinated”. It is expected that over 180 countries of the world would promote more innovative ways to encourage the immunisation...
Sunday, April 21st, 2013
With Banke Omidiji It is not uncommon for a child between the ages of 2 and 5 to have a period of temporary stammering. This is a crucial time of speech and language development. The stammer may persist for a couple of weeks or months....
Sunday, April 14th, 2013
A chemical found in red meat helps explain why eating too much steak, mince and bacon is bad for the heart, say U.S. scientists. A study in the journal Nature Medicine showed that carnitine in red meat was broken down by bacteria in the gut....
Sunday, March 24th, 2013
By Yinka Shokunbi Her friendly disposition did not betray she had anything to worry about as she walked in briskly to the medical emergency department of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) requesting to see the doctor with her result for interpretation and further referral...
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
The foundation of the country’s Primary Health care System was actually laid in 1986 as a result of the weak and disorgaanised health sector in which a mere 30 per cent of the country population could access healthcare services. For the first time, the Fourth...
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
“I can’t bring myself to go to the community clinic even as they offer to give me free services to get rid of this pregnancy Wale, please understand. Can’t you see someone who knows me or even my parents could just show up and know...
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
As part of the support by the Japanese government for Nigerian children, especially boosting coverage of immunisation against the deadly Polio disease and for prevention of other infectious diseases, a grant of $2.8m (N443m) was awarded to the United Nations Children Fund, (UNICEF) recipient implementing...
Sunday, March 17th, 2013
Do you love eating sun-dried meat, which some call salt meat, tinko, kilishi, suya, sausages, corned beef, minced meat among several varieties of meat delicacies? Then, you might have at one time or another enjoyed the delicious meal of donkey, camel or even horse! Not...
Sunday, March 17th, 2013
Allegations of financial misappropriation have continued to rock Ibadan-based Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), with the chairman of the institute’s Governing Council, Professor Tale Omole, being accused of treating the issue with kid gloves. Omole, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo...
Sunday, March 17th, 2013
Aside the nutritional benefits of vegetables, eating vegetables has been found to be the most effective way to lose weight. ANTHONIA SOYINGBE writes on four vegetables which can be included in every diet and their nutritional benefits.
