By Dr. Njideka Kanu
For the Ladies only. You are washing your vagina wrong! Watch this video where I explained the difference between the vagina and Vulva and why you should wash one and not the other.
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By Rotimi Onadipe
Social media has many positive effects on its users but excessive use of social media platforms also has many negative effects, particularly on the mental health and well-being of users irrespective of age, sex, status, or profession.
In today’s internet age, increased accessibility to the internet has increased the usage of social…
Last week, Muslims the world over celebrated the eid-ul-adha or the “big eid” or “big Sallah”. We are, however, more interested in its meaning, implications and bearing on us as a nation. We need to look at spiritual milestones, hoping to find the seemingly elusive panacea for our ills.
Eid means feast, festival or celebration,…
As Nigerians groan under harsh economic realities a confused young father simply bolted on hearing that his wife has been delivered off a set of twins,
24-year-old Abibat Kehinde and her new babies were abandoned by her husband at the Epe General Hospital, Lagos State, following his inability to pay their hospital bills amounting to…
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Stress can harm the area of the brain that’s key for memory? Preserving muscle mass helps stop a trip from turning into a fall but also lowers your risk for heart disease? Women may have a heart attack even though their arteries are clear? High calcium intake may not help your…
A woman who is recovering from a liver transplant not only has a new lifesaving organ, but one that made history.
That’s thanks to Cecil Lockhart from Welch, West Virginia, who died at age 95 on May 4, making him the oldest organ donor in United States history, according the Center for Organ Recovery & Education, which…
By Christabel Ligami (Lead Writer)
Esther Wawire, 23, delivered her daughter at Kenya’s Punwani Hospital two weeks ago, but was unable to breastfeed due to complications arising from the delivery. “I had high blood pressure, so my baby was born earlier than expected, weighing 800 grams,” she said. “My pressure didn’t go down immediately, and I was bleeding…
Freshly minted Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has cautioned countries especially the advanced and vaccine exporting ones that vaccine nationalism would not help the world exit the coronavirus pandemic challenge. She gave the warning during a press event shortly after her emergence. She said actually it is normal for countries…
Certain groups are being prioritised at this stage, but the government has vowed to have everyone vaccinated by autumn - an online calculator predicts when you could receive the vaccine
Britain began rolling out coronavirus vaccines late last year, with more than 9m people jabbed to date - and counting.
The vaccine is seen as…
COVID-19 may damage sperm quality and reduce fertility in men, according to a new study based on experimental evidence.
The viral disease — which has swept the globe, claiming nearly 2.2 million lives — can cause increased sperm cell death, inflammation and so-called oxidative stress, researchers reported Friday in the journal Reproduction.
“These findings provide…