10 Tips To Help You Quit Smoking
Smoking is injurious to health! We all know it, but still many people are addicted to smoking and no single day begins or ends without a cigarette. But every time you light one up, you are increasing...
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Life and Cry of Senior Citizens
Older adults make important contributions to society as family members, volunteers and active participants in the workforce. The elderly are also known as the aged. While most have good mental...
Take Suicide Threats Seriously
Head of the Psychiatric Departmentat Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr. Gordon Donnir, has emphasized the need for suicide threats from people suffering from depression to be taken seriously....
6 Lifestyle Changes To Make If You Want To Live To Be 100
Over the years, the human lifespan has significantly declined. For example, the life expectancy in Nigeria according to the World Health Organization (WHO) for 54.5 years for both men and women as at...
Why You Can’t Move When You Wake Up In the Middle of the Night
Imagine falling into a sound sleep, when suddenly you wake up and you can’t move a muscle. Sounds frightening! But it’s an experience that many people have at some point in their lives. This...
Football Headers ‘linked To Brain Damage’
Repeated headers during a footballer’s professional career may be linked to long-term brain damage, according to tentative evidence from UK scientists. The research follows anecdotal reports that...
50 Million People Worldwide Have Epilepsy
World Health Organisation (WHO) has said about 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, making it one of the most common neurological diseases globally. According to WHO, epilepsy is a chronic...
5 Ways To Cure Depression
Depression is characterized by a severe and typically prolonged feeling of sadness and dejection. It is basically a state of feeling sad about everything. It makes us irritable, saps our energy and...
Mind-Altering Drug Use Spikes Among Older Americans
The number of older Americans taking multiple prescription drugs such as tranquilizers, antidepressants, antipsychotics and painkillers has more than doubled in the past decade, researchers said...
10 Foods You Should Never Eat If You Want To Lose Weight
Losing weight is not easy, but growing awareness of the health impacts of excess body weight is leading more people to make the effort to lose the extra pounds. People who are overweight or obese are...
Shocking Causes of Missed and Irregular Periods
Missed a period? The first thing to consider is pregnancy. If that is ruled out, other possible causes might be related to the use of certain birth control pills or entering menopause. One of the...
Shocking Causes of Missed and Irregular Periods
Missed a period? The first thing to consider is pregnancy. If that is ruled out, other possible causes might be related to the use of certain birth control pills or entering menopause. One of the...
George Michael’s Friend Andros Georgiou Links Death To Drugs
George Michael’s childhood friend Andros Georgiou has linked the singer’s death to drugs. “Hard drugs had been back in his life,” he told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme, adding...
Eating Disorders Can Strike In Mid-Life
Eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia, affect a small but substantial number of women in their 40s and 50s, UK research suggests. The study, involving more than 5,000 women, found just...
George Michael’s Friend Andros Georgiou Links Death To Drugs
George Michael's childhood friend Andros Georgiou has linked the singer's death to drugs. "Hard drugs had been back in his life," he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, adding the singer...
Man Suffering Persistent Manhood Erection Cry For Help
A 32-year-old man who is battling persistent penis erection, known medically as priapism, says relatives have abandoned him. Kwaku Donkor, a sickle cell patient, says his plight has rendered him...
10 Most Common Causes of Missed and Irregular Periods
Missed a period? The first thing to consider is pregnancy. If that is ruled out, other possible causes might be related to the use of certain birth control pills or entering menopause. One of the...
Brain Activity ‘key In Stress Link To Heart Disease’
The effect of constant stress on a deep-lying region of the brain explains the increased risk of heart attack, a study in The Lancet suggests. In a study of 300 people, those with higher activity in...
Family Abandon Man Suffering Persistent Penis Erection
A 32-year-old man who is battling persistent penis erection, known medically as priapism, says relatives have abandoned him. Kwaku Donkor, a sickle cell patient, says his plight has rendered him...
Wasting Insane Youths In The Streets
In this report, Odimegwu Onwumere writes that a compassionate Nigerian rescued an insane young lady from the Abuja streets recently and admitted her to a hospital; while the Nigerian winks that many...