Random Musing of a Doctor

LIKE a bolt out of the blues, the Lagos State Government, during the week issued an alert about an outbreak of cholera in the State...

CAUSES OF AUTISM Until recently, most scientists believed that autism is caused mostly by genetic factors. But groundbreaking new res...

The National Health Insurance Scheme on Tuesday descended on an Abuja-based health facility, the First Hospital and Maternity Limited, b...

The Federal Government, through its Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, has provided cash incentives to pregnant women in B...

The Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria has raised the alarm over what it calls “preventable deaths” arising from epidemi...

Don’t do it. Here’s why: The Acanthamoeba is a naturally occurring single-celled organism that is found in untreated soil and liquids, i...

The ancient practice of “swaddling” a baby in a blanket, arms restrained and legs stretched out, is making a comeback, but experts war...

It happened in the August month of 1999 in an average coastal town of Orissa,India..It was a town with around ten thousand population…It...

Men can be baffled by women's explanations of how they should react to something they see as a simple problem that will eventually...

Men who have sex at least twice in a week can almost halve their risk of heart disease, according to new research. This study was cond...

In what seemed to be a shocking revelation on the prevalence of leprosy in Nigeria, experts had said the disease is still being ac...

If autism is caught in infancy, treatment can take full advantage of the young brain’s remarkable plasticity. Although autism is h...

AUTISM SYMPTOMS AND EARLY SIGNS What to look for in Babies, Toddlers and children

Though, there is yet no concrete statistics to prove it but it has been revealed that about 600,000 people die annually from unexplained...

You can feel wonderful during your pregnancy if you take good care of yourself. Increase your odds of a healthy pregnancy by following t...

A gadget is a device or appliance having a unique purpose and function. At the time of their invention, gadgets are often way ahead in t...

Going by the plans of US-based medical groups and institutions, the days of medical tourism abroad for Nigerians may be coming to an end...

The Police Command in the central Nigerian state of Benue has confirmed the arrest of a medical doctor, who allegedly raped a patient. ...

As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to observe the World Polio Day (WPD) on Thursday, several activities have been planned by Rotary ...

A three-year-old Mississippi girl apparently cured of HIV infection by aggressive treatment right after her birth remains free of the vi...

As Neuropsychiatric, Nordica, Bridge Clinic top chart. A RECENT ranking of leading hospitals in Africa and the lot of Nigerian hospita...

The Government of Lagos state has confirmed the outbreak of cholera in the state. The sad and shocking development was made known yest...

True Life Story: How I Was Brutally Raped By A Friend While Trying To Get A Job

HELPING AN ABUSED OR NEGLECTED CHILD What should you do if you suspect that a child has been abused? How do you approach him or her?...

Dr Peter Alabi, the Chief Medical Director of University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, says people with stroke are at a  gre...

Drink plenty of lemon water. Start every day with a large glass of water with the fresh juice of one to one half lemon added. Lemon help...

Colorectal cancer cases continue to grow globally largely fueled by a diet of processed convenience foods and a sedentary lifestyle vo...

President, Medical Women Association of Nigeria, Dr. Valerie Obot, has said that early sex and other unhealthy sexual habits make women ...

The Federal Government has expressed optimism that doctors on strike could resume duties within the next two weeks. Minister of Health...

Similarities in personal values and beliefs between an adult child and an older mother is what keeps that child in favor over the long-t...

In this interview with  MOTUNRAYO JOEL , Africa’s first in-coming Vice-President, World Heart Federation, Geneva, and former Vice-Presid...

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), has said that the association can no longer trust the government or any agre...

The warning is on many bill boards, advertisements on TV and radio. Boldly written on beer bottles is the advice: Drink responsibly. B...

Dr Spyros Panos An orthopedic surgeon accused of faking hundreds of surgeries surrendered on Wednesday and was charged with one count ...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old man, Adeyemi Akintolure, for parading himself as a medical practitioner withou...

British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is seeking regulatory approval for the world’s first malaria vaccine after trial data showed that it...

Do you see yourself in some of these descriptions, painful as it may be? Do you feel angry and frustrated and don’t know where to turn...

True Life Story: How I Left Lagos For Benin And Got Raped Repeatedly By A Trusted Male Friend

The  more sugar you eat, the more cavities you get False:  When it comes to causing cavities, how long sugar has contact with your tee...

Bitter kola is a type of nut mostly found in several parts of Nigeria and West-Central Africa as a whole and the tree grows in the (trop...

An article by researchers at the University of Exeter has shed light on the link between depression and poor parenting. The article iden...

The first open heart surgery in a teaching hospital in Nigeria has been successfully carried out at the University College Hospital, UCH, ...

The present decade is braiding threads of dark future by incorporating nodes of increasing heart risk among women and children. According ...

Despite tremendous progress, one child still dies every 20 seconds from a disease that could have been prevented by an existing vaccine.  ...