A pregnancy period is an essential event in a woman's life and her immediate family. During this period, a pregnant woman needs special and adequate attention immediately pregnancy is confirmed until after delivery. This is the time women learn how to be mothers and men learn how to be fathers, though some parental ideas have already been learned from their own parents, now it is time to practice what they have learned.    This means the kind of relationship between a child and his or her parents will certainly have an influence on their children when they start bear ..read more

Nurses are not just healthcare workers alone, they have been trained to make it their nature, with their meekly tender on motion, blissfully showing the sicks their affection, irrespective of their conditions, a vow they pledged during their induction into the noble profession!  They are known as saviors, reliever of all souls. They are mentors, and ever conscious healthcare workers, patients healthcare is their venture, health education is their chore.their job is their call.  A job they do with all their all with joy throughout their course, showing it big across the world ..read more

Water is a prime necessity of life, if not available, human beings, animals and vegetation will stop existing. Water performs a lot of functions for humans such as the replacement of lost fluids from the tissues, excretion of waste products of metabolism, serves as a vehicle to dissolve foods and regulation of body temperature among others. Facts about water Do you know that water is the most important nutrient on earth due to the fact that the function of cells depends on a fluid environment? Do you know that water makes up 60 to 70% of our total body weight? Are you aware that people w ..read more

The world countries are making tremendous efforts to combat the existing but new surfaced coronavirus that originated from China which has now turned to a global emergency. The coronavirus has killed more than 350 people in china forcing the Chinese government to shut down about 20 cities in China with about 56 million people being quarantined. Coronaviruses (COV) are known as the large family of viruses that causes illness ranging from common cold or flu to more severe diseases like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome –associated coronaviruses (SARS). Coronaviruses are zoonotic (diseases tha ..read more

The advent of technology has transformed the world into a global village with borders and boundaries removed, as the human race launches into another country to meet friends within a twinkle of an eye without obtaining a visa. This is not a voodoo practice or is it magical; it is an advent of technology through the use of internet-connected mobile phone. Surely the whole world is on our palm (hand). The use of phones span around the 24 hours of human life these days the average Smartphone user checks phone 47 times a day and 17,155 times a year. Are you aware that using mobile phones late at n ..read more

I have a dream, that one day Lagos will be a healthy city, with ''healthier people'' What is the benefit of a megacity with poor roads, irregular traffic control and lots of air pollutants? I believe only Lagosians can answer that question. I have always said I cannot live in Lagos; this is not because I cannot adapt to the way of life of Lagosians, but because I am of the opinion that Lagos is a killer city. In my definition, a killer city is a place that has too many ways to kill thousands of people at the same time. Have you ever seen an accident scene in Lagos? Have you ever counted t ..read more

Aww!  Dried and cracked lips,  pale body,  runny nose,  excessive sneezing,  itchy eyes,  cold,  dry and dusty environment!  What is happening?  It is the harmattan season!  Harmattan is here again! Harmattan is a season in West Africa,  which is a cold, dry and Northeasterly trade wind that blows from the Sahara desert towards west Africa which occurs between the end of November and towards the middle of March. Harmattan is a period which people do complain of having dry skin, cracked lips, cold, pale body parts, running nose. The cold and dusty environment harmattan bring is another challeng ..read more

Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancers that affect men.  It is the second most common cause of cancer death among males after lung cancer. Prostate cancer affects the male prostate which is a glandular organ present only in males, it is about 3cm long and lies at the neck of the bladder and in front of the rectum. The prostate surrounds the urethra which is a dual functioning organ for sperm and urine out of the penis, the prostate gland produces a thin, milky fluid that is added to the sperm at the point of Ejaculation. Although, older men are expected to have an enlar ..read more

Adequate nutrition is important from conception till death in order to achieve a healthy living and function optimally in the society.  According to Hippocrates, the father of medicine he said: "Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" which buttressed the importance of food throughout man's life cycle. Unfortunately, we have left, those foods we were supposed to eat and eat those foods we ought not to have eaten and this has lead to a reduction in health and well-being. According to research carried out by nutritionists, human beings have subscribed to sugary foods ..read more

                What HIV/AIDS?HIV is a virus that attacks cells in the immune system, which is our body’s natural defense against illness. The virus destroys a type of white blood cell in the immune system called a T-helper cell and makes copies of itself inside these cells. T-helper cells are also referred to as CD4 cells. In order to reduce the mortality and morbidity of "HIV/AIDS", December 1st of every year is designated as " World AIDS day". This year's theme is based on "communities makes difference" which is aimed at recognizing the vital roles everyone such as youths, women, men ..read more