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Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome: Symptoms and Treatment

  Dr. Akhilesh Singh, New Delhi, India.   Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) is a breathing disorder that affects some obese people. In OHS, poor breathing results in too...

NAF offers free medicals to Bakassi IDPs

By Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has extended its medical outreach programme to the...

About Congenital Heart Defects

By Dr. Akhilesh Singh. Congenital heart defects are problems with the heart's structure that are present at birth. These defects can involve: • The interior walls of...

Adewole versus Yusuf: anger, documents flood public domain

Following the suspension of the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Usman Yusuf, a plethora of confidential documents, anger, and...

Alarm bells toll over cholera, others in aftermath of flooding

By Yemi Oyeyemi, Abuja. Like the alarm bells tolling across the nation for mitigating measures to check the after effects of flooding in some States,...

The Role of Family Medicine and Family Physicians in The Nigerian Health Sector

By The Society of Family Physicians of Nigeria with contributions and assistance from Dr. Akin Moses, Dr. Sodipo Oluwajimi, Dr. Andrew Enegela, Dr. Achiaka...

You can grow healthy vegetables in rooms, expert

  Source: NAN By Vivian Ihechu Lack of space and urbanisation are no longer hindrances to farming as urban dwellers can grow healthy  vegetables in their little...

Agric boom stirs govt creativity for trillions of Naira revenue, plans population control

By Shitile Mbayansa, Abuja Believe it or not, Nigeria's agricultural sector is on the upswing. Her former Minister of Agriculture and architect of her latest...

David, an example of albino suffering; Saraki promises help with law

David Shehu from Ogbagba village of Kogi State has had to live with the stigma of being born to parents, who, though dark in...

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