Category: Health

The Canadian team reports in British Journal of Sports Medicine has revealed that participants with vascular dementia who walked three hours per week for six months had improved reaction times and other signs of improved brain function. Vascular cognitive impairment, or VCI, refers to mildly impaired thinking or more advanced dementia that’s due to the same kinds of blood vessel damage seen with heart disease elsewhere in the body. “It is well established that regular aerobic exercise improves cardiovascular health and cerebrovascular health,” the study’s senior author Teresa Liu-Ambrose revealed.…

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Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, has said that students of Queens College, Yaba, Lagos, can now resume for academic activities as analysis of water samples from all water delivery points at the college shows satisfactory result. According to a press statement by the Director, Public Affairs of the ministry, Adeola Salako, the school authority in collaboration with the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), Old Girls Association and the Federal Ministry of Education has successfully addressed the water crisis that claimed the lives of three pupils at the college,…

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Charcoal as revealed by several studies can be used to treat skin ailments, diarrhoea, bad breath, constipation and body odour. It can be used as a poultice to treat insect stings, mushroom poisoning, poison ivy, cholera, dysentery, bites and inflammation. It is locally used in Nigeria to make the teeth whiter, as antidote to poison, to prevent fermentation in grounded beans, among others. But scientists are now applying activated charcoal not in water purification but as antidote to adverse drug reaction from overdose as well as treatment of many disease…

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The Minister of State, Health, Osagie Ehanire, on Wednesday admitted that the Federal Government was caught off guard by the outbreak of Type C of meningitis which has killed  no fewer than 336 persons in the country. This came as one person was on Wednesday confirmed dead in Cross River State following an outbreak of  the disease in the state. Dr. Osagie Ehanire, who spoke to State House correspondents on the outcome of the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, said the government would…

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Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) epidemic death toll has risen from 328 to 336 as at yesterday even as the number of cases also increased from 2,524 persons to 2,997. This means that the country has recorded eight more deaths and 473 more cases. But the epidemic is still contained within 16 states with Zamfara leading with more than half of the cases and deaths at 1,846 and 216. A situation report on the CSM epidemic jointly published yesterday by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC),…

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The Nigerian Heart Foundation, NHF, has called on food manufacturing companies including restaurants to add less salt in foods as Nigeria joined the rest of the World to mark Salt Awareness Week for the first time. High intake of salt can lead to high blood pressure, a major contributor to cardiovascular diseases and stroke. The President of  NHF, Dr Kingsley Akinoye who made the call in Lagos noted that it is equally hard to eat less salt when eating in restaurants and ordering takeaways, adding, that if Nigeria is to meet…

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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has been ordered by Justice Adedayo Oyebanji of Igbosere High Court to henceforth mandate the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Plc to include on all bottles of Fanta and Sprite soft drinks manufactured by the company a written warning that the content of the said soft drinks cannot be taken with Vitamin C as same becomes poisonous. Justice Oyebanji also declared that NAFDAC has failed the citizens of this great nation by its certification as satisfactory for human consumption, products…

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Onions have been discovered by scientists to help humans relax, allowing a better night’s sleep. They are known to be high in prebiotics, dietary fibers that act as food for good stomach bacteria. A groundbreaking new study has found these to help boost gut health by aiding the growth of beneficial bugs. They also release metabolic by products, which influence the brain into overcoming worry and fear. Experts believe the findings strengthen the ever-growing link between gut bacteria and overall health. A lot is already known about probiotics – live…

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Women with multiple sexual partners are at the risk of developing cervical cancer. This was made known by Dr Uchenna Iroka, a medical practitioner from the Department of Accident and Emergency Unit, Minna General Hospital. He described cervical cancer as a cancer of the uterus (womb) that grows around the narrowing part of the lower uterus often referred to as the neck of the womb. He listed vaginal bleeding during sexual intercourse, foul smelling discharge, pains during sex and post menopausal bleeding as the symptoms of cervical cancer. The others…

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