No fewer than 415 million people are living with diabetes globally, which is projected to reach 642 million by 2040, the Diabetes Association of Nigeria (DAN) has said.
National president of the association Dr Mohammed Alkali disclosed this on
Monday at...
A clinical nutritionist at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi - Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State , Dr Okunola Oladimeji has warned against excessive intake of sugar, stressing that honey is not an alternative to sugar.
In an interview with punch Newspaper,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO), the governments of Nigeria and Spain have collaborated towards bringing treatment to persons with mental illness in the troubled North-Eastern Nigeria.
A recent report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs...
More than 23 per cent of deaths in Africa are linked to the environment, the World Health Organisation has said.
According to WHO, this is the highest for any region on a per capita basis (deaths per 100 000).
Matshidiso Moeti,...
A study conducted among 400 000 women in the UK Biobank looked at approximately 450 biomarkers and found that earlier risers are less likely to develop breast cancer than those who up stay up late at night.
As reported by...
The rate of girls under the age of 14 who undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa has seen a “huge and significant decline” over nearly three decades, according to a new analysis.
The study, published Wednesday in the global...
Work really can kill you, according to a study published in 2008 providing the strongest evidence yet of how on-the-job stress raises the risk of heart disease by disrupting the body’s internal systems.
The findings from a long-running study...
Nigeria are liable to die of sicknesses and diseases, as well as other causes.
Causes of death listed in the report are influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, stroke, HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease.
The 2018 average life expectancy for Nigerians is...
Certain activities are known to lower our cognitive abilities. Some of these activities only impair intelligence temporarily, while others have been proven to have long-term effects.Below are Surprising Things That Reduces Your Intelligence1. Dim LightingResearchers at Michigan State University...
Doctors may want to consider measuring the size of baby heads, because it could indicate their intelligence later in life, according to a study.
Researchers from universities in Europe conducted an experiment to determine if there was a correlation between...
