By Ayomide Otitoju On 31 May 2023, WHO and public health champions around the world will come together to celebrate World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). This year’s theme is “We need food, not tobacco”. The 2023 global campaign aims to raise awareness about alternative crop production and marketing opportunities for tobacco farmers and encourage them…
By Ayomide Otitoju The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new guidelines on non-sugar sweeteners (NSS), which recommends against the use of NSS to control body weight or reduce the risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).The recommendation is based on the findings of a systematic review of the available evidence which suggests that use of…
COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a “global health emergency”, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. The announcement on Friday came more than three years after the United Nations health agency declared its highest level of alert over the devastating virus, which triggered lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions of people worldwide.“Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met…
Professor Adegboyega Fawole of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Ilorin, says about 28 Nigerian women die of cervical cancer daily.Mr Fawole said this on Friday in Ilorin while delivering his paper at the 231st Inaugural Lecture of the University with the theme: “Reversing Nigerian Women’s Poor Health Indices: Challenges and Prospects”. According…
The researchers of Qatar University have recently found that shisha smoking or water pipe smoking, increases the risk of heart diseases in adults.Shisha, also known as hookah, is a kind of water pipe used for smoking flavoured tobacco. It originated in the Middle East and has become a social activity across the region. The study…
Gov: we will continue to cater for the less privileged By Ayomide Otitoju Worried by challenges some Lagosians, especially the vulnerable and less privileged are facing currently as a result of naira and fuel scarcity in the country, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Saturday said the State Government will roll out food packs…
The World Health Organisation has announced a cholera outbreak in 23 countries, warning that 20 more countries sharing land borders with the affected countries are at risk.WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus stated this during the bloc’s online media conference on Friday. Mr Ghebreyesus said more than one billion people globally were at risk of cholera. “Cholera…
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has condemned the alleged killing of Uyi Iluobe, a Delta-based doctor, by aggrieved relatives of a patient. The incident is said to have occurred on Saturday in Oghara, Delta state. In a statement signed by Uche Ojinmah, NMA president, the association said it received news of the murder “with shock…
Arecent American Journal of Medicine has revealed that people who skipped the COVID-19 vaccination are at a high risk of being involved in car accidents.“The findings suggest that unvaccinated adults need to be careful indoors with other people and outside with surrounding traffic,” the report noted. The study examined the encrypted government-held records of more…
