Updating pictures and several posts regularly on various social media platforms has become the latest trend for today’s generation of our society. They don’t have a life beyond that, For instance, they wake-up with a morning selfie and their...
Spending too much time on “social media” sites like Facebook, Instagram etc is making people more than just miserable. It may also be making them depressed.
The link between the two has been talked about for years, but a causal...
An illegal psychoactive drug, Cannabis which is popularly known as marijuana was the most widely used substance in Nigeria in 2018, followed by pharmaceutical opioids, mainly tramadol and codeine-containing cough syrups.
In Nigeria, 14.3 million people (14 percent of the...
A study published yesterday suggests that Women deprived of an education in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s went on to have as many or more children than previous, more educated generations, thereby halting a trend toward smaller families.
The findings...
A new study finds that selfish people tend to make less money than their more giving peers. They also tend to have fewer kids.
For the study, which was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers in...
We all know that exercise keeps us fit but a new study goes one step further, finding that a lifestyle devoid of exercise is worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease.
Dr. Wael Jaber, a cardiologist at...
Countries that have banned spanking or other forms corporal punishment are less likely to have violent youth, a study has shown.
Findings from the study led by Frank Elgar, associate professor in the Institute for Health and Social Policy at...
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...
Excessive and insufficient sleep are similarly detrimental to your brain’s functioning, a new study has revealed.
The world’s largest sleep study found that people who are asleep between seven to eight hours per night performed better cognitively than those who...
Moms who breastfeed their first child for at least five months are likely to have more kids than women who stop sooner or bottle-feed, a new study suggests.
The finding comes from an analysis of data on nearly 3 700...
