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Mr Tunde Ajobo, a dietician, reveals older adults, due to the climatic changes, particularly need to keep warm and increase their water intake to ensure free bowel movement and increase movement to stay healthy and will help them avoid constipation and chest infections like pneumonia. He spoke at the second anniversary and thanksgiving ceremony of…
DIRECTOR of the Centre for Comprehensive Promotion of Reproductive Health, Professor Oladosu Ojengbede, has stated that female genital mutilation (FGM), the removal of a woman’s clitoris, is not only unhealthy but also unnecessary. Ojengbede, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, speaking at the 2024 International Day for Zero Tolerance for FGM in Nigeria, organised by the…
The World Health Organisation Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, on Sunday said the rate of cancer in Africa is alarming. Dr Moeti, in a statement to commemorate the 2024 World Cancer Day, stated that “approximately 882,882 new cancer cases occurred in the WHO African Region with around 573,653 deaths”. According to her, about…
A recent report by the National Tuberculosis, Buruli Ulcer, and Leprosy Control Programme (NTBLCP) still maintained that more than 18 Nigerians die hourly from TB. Ever since 2017 when the World Health Organisation, WHO, first released a report that 18 Nigerians die hourly from Tuberculosis (TB), there have been efforts to stem the tide. Deputy…
The gynecologists, warned that severe bleeding could lead to death after delivery if the woman was not promptly attended. Maternal health experts say bleeding after childbirth is unpredictable but could be effectively treated if the delivery was taken by a skilled birth attendant. Postpartum haemorrhage, experts say is a leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide…
Contrary to the common notion that patients with diabetes only eat unripe plantain, endocrinologists have advised those battling with the degenerative disease not to jettison carbohydrates in their diets, especially traditional foods like Garri, local unpolished rice, and yam flour, among others. The medical experts, however, said people with diabetes should be mindful of their…
Dr Olusegun Shoyombo, a Consultant Psychiatrist at the National Hospital, Abuja, has advised men to assist their wives in doing house chores after childbirth. He gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday, saying such assistance is necessary to enable the nursing mothers avoid Postpartum Depression…
Taking multivitamin supplements routinely is a ‘safe and accessible’ approach to supporting cognitive function, expert has said. Writing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the expert declared that daily multivitamin supplementation was linked to benefits in both memory and cognition. In substudies of the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS), which investigated the…
The World Health Organisation, WHO, has urged member nations of its global tobacco treaty to ban or regulate the use of e-cigarettes and other novel and emerging products of the tobacco industry, in the interest of public health. The call was made during a virtual media briefing by the Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals…
The Mandate Secretary, FCT Health Services and Environment, Dolapo Fasawe, says two Lassa fever cases have been confirmed in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT out of four suspected cases. Fasawe disclosed this on Monday at a news conference on the latest outbreak of the disease in Abuja. Recall that Ekweanaedo News reported ealier on the…
