Category: Nutrition

Calcium and cancer In order for blood to retain oxygen, it must also remain alkaline. Diet is critical to this process as minerals and nutrients such as calcium that help...

The Federal Ministry of Health has released over 4,500 doses of both Ribavirin and Virazole tablets and intravenous drugs to the Benue State government to check further spread of the...

If you dropped a piece of fruit in your kitchen sink while rinsing it, would you think twice about popping it in your mouth? What if you dropped it in...

Health, they say, is wealth and a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. Despite this truism, so many people the world over, especially in developing countries, do not have access...

Medical experts have have warned Nigerians on the dangers of using bleaching products. Dr Akinlolu Siyanbola, a dermatologist at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Hospital, Osogbo, and Dr Abimbola...

An Abuja-based medical practitioner, Dr Patrick Okolie, has warned the public against the use of drugs that can trigger obesity in people. Okolie  in Abuja on Monday said that there...

"Know your health numbers and live longer.” This is the catch phrase of the on-going campaign series created by “Doctors on Air” – a unique, interactive health awareness radio programme...

IN January 2000, the news was awash with  reports of two doctors who mistakenly removed a patient’s only working kidney. The septuagenarian underwent what should have been a right nephrectomy...

EVEN  if only for its antioxidant properties, consumption of tomatoes help to fight free radicals, lowering the risk of disease, improving and keeping us younger for longer! Beware though: as...

The news about a medical doctor who abandoned medicine to become an oil pipeline thief may have cast a pall on the prestige of what is supposed to be a...