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DO NOT SLEEP WITH YOUR BABY!
A mother in Oregon sued Portland Adventist Medical Center for $8.6 million after she accidentally smothered her four-day-old baby in a hospital bed. Monica Thompson said that a few days after her son Jacob was born in August 2012, the hospital put her newborn in bed...
Spinal cord injury: YOU need to know
I find it rather amusing and unbelievable that anyone can have a road traffic collision on Sunday afternoon in Abuja. I mean the roads are great to drive on and often quiet with little traffic. So, I am always amazed that people still have head-on collisions and fatal...
Condoms or bread: You decide!
Joke:A little boy goes to his father and asks "Daddy, how was I born?" The father answers: "Well son, your mum and I got together in a chat room at Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your mum and we met up at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, I...
Help yourself!
Get thisHepatitis is inflammation (swelling) of the liver which can lead to damage of the liver and death. Death because the liver is the ultimate refinery in the body. It cleans the blood and removes poisons from the blood which is then excreted in the stool. You...
What do you prefer: Early morning sex or a jog?
Jack Dorsey, the founder of twitter wakes up early to meditate and then goes on a 6-mile run. He also apparently walks five miles to work in the morning to clean his mind. Mark Zuckerberg is well known for dressing the same way each day as he once claimed it gives him...
A Harvest of kidneys in India
There are stories making the rounds about unscrupulous medical activities in India. One You may have read how an 11-year-old boy had his kidney removed for black market sale. Apparently, the kid had been taken to India for what was likely a simple surgical...
All you need to know about hypertension
Blood pressure is the force of blood that is pushing up against the walls of the blood vessels in our body. If the pressure is too high, the heart has to work harder to pump, and this could lead to damage of organs in the body like the kidneys and the brain. This...
A Case Story
Mama Yunusa stopped walking in March. Her arms and legs simply stopped moving. She also complained about pain in the neck. She was effectively bedridden and had to be carried to the bathroom by her daughter. A fiercely independent woman was reduced to a helpless state...
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