As there are no physical borders between countries, disease can spread quickly from one population to another. To be effective, efforts to improve African healthcare must be collaborative, meaning communication must be open and disease tracking coordinated.
Modern Communication
In the past, fa...
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How Technology Can Improve Healthcare in Nigeria
Providing Healthcare for Nigeria’s Population Explosion
One of the biggest challenges facing Nigeria in the coming years is how to meet the healthcare needs of a rapidly expanding population. Since African health ministers in 1987 first began the serious promotion of initiatives designed to implement strategies aimed at improving popular access to basic ...
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Cancer Burden In Africa
Cancer Burden In Africa
Overview
Cancer kills more people globally than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, and the disease burden hasn't escaped developing governments. According to WHO, an estimated annual eight million cancer mortality is recorded worldwide.
Cancer i...
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How Nigeria Is Improving Its Health Facilities
Good health is one of the most important factors contributing to increased productivity and efficiency. Every country looks for the means whereby they can take care of the health of their citizens, which means they must spend a great deal of money and effort in improving the health sector infrastruc...
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How eating deep-fried foods, stress increase prostate cancer risk
GUIARDIAN
How eating deep-fried foods, stress increase prostate cancer risk
THURSDAY, 31 JANUARY 2013 00:00 CHUKWUMA MUANYA FEATURES -NATURAL HEALTH
Recent studies have shown that regular consumption of deep fried foods such as potato and plantain chi...
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How red meat, sugary drinks consumption shorten lifespan, by researchers
GUARDIAN
How red meat, sugary drinks consumption shorten lifespan, by researchers
THURSDAY, 15 MARCH 2012 00:00 CHUKWUMA MUANYA
Can regular intake of meals rich in processed red meat and sugary drinks be the reason for reducing life span and life expectancy of Nigerians? CHUKWUMA M...
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Noise Management By The Brain
I was once asked on an on-line health forum, why it is that one would begin to get all itchy in the groin area just as one anticipates taking a bath. And why at other times, the itchiness would only commence immediately after one has had a bath.
My mind quickly went to the concept of the brain-bo...
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Nigerian Parents Give Birth to White Baby … and Experts Say She’s Not Albino
THE stunned black dad of a newborn, WHITE, baby girl declared yesterday — "I'm sure she's my kid ... I just don't know why she's BLONDE."
British Nmachi Ihegboro has amazed genetics experts who say the little girl is NOT an albino.
Dad Ben, 44, a customer services adviser, admitted: "We ...
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MRI, DNA and Nigerian Pseudo-scientists
MRI, DNA and Nigerian Pseudo-scientists
By
Dr. Abdullahi Ibn Mohammed
There are many vertical lenses through which we view intra-personal dynamics in Nigeria; for example, the many perspectives being put forth currently in the increasing debate on what scientific methods to accept in...
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Mens Sana Congratulates Kano and Pfizer
Mens Sana Congratulates Kano and Pfizer
The health-sector Non-Governmental Organisation, MENS SANA, has congratulated both the Kano State Government and pharmaceutical giants Pfizer on their recent out-of-court settlement mutually endorsed last week. In a statement signed by its National Coordinat...
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