Arthritis is usually due to inflammation – most often prolonged inflammation. The word arthritis literally means joint inflammation (arth=joint, ritis=inflammation), and refers to more than 100...
The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, has identified non-compliance with advisory guidelines established by the...
Researchers at University of Oxford have raised an alarm over new breed of mosquitoes that resist insecticides. Referred to as Sephensi, the species is expanding and...
The World Health Organisation(WHO) yeasterday released its first report on the global impact of high blood pressure, assuring that with treatment improvement life expectancy may rise...
Members of staff of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu have dissociated themselves from a recent protest staged at the hospital. The protest was organised by a...
DIET indeed has a significant influence on our health, a fact that cannot be denied. What we eat and drink greatly affect not only our physical...
A Consultant Cardiologist, Prof Simon Isezuo, says hypertension is a health disorder affecting one out of every three adults in rural areas across the country. He...
Body Mass Index, BMI, has been the tool for assessing healthy body weight. Research has now pointed to the fact that just BMI is not enough,...
The World Health Health the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa has called on countries to act swiftly to improve essential health services to...
Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has disclosed that from next year herbal muffins with alcoholic above 30 percent will be banned. Speaking at anan event...