How stress can make you sick

Stress is a feeling we all experience when we are challenged or overwhelmed. But more than just an emotion, stress is a hardwired physical response that travels throughout your entire body. In a short-term, stress can be advantageous by enabling you deliver on projects when due, but when activated too often or too long, your […]
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How does anesthesia work?

If you had surgery, you might remember starting to count backwards from 10 – 9 – 8 and then waking up with the surgery already over before you even got to 5, and it might seem that you were asleep, but you weren’t. You were under anesthesia, which is much more complicated. You were unconscious, […]
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HOW TO DEAL WITH YOUTH/TEENAGE ADDICTION PROBLEMS

Young people are dying. They are overdosing on almost all medications nowadays, and even basic prescription drugs have not been left out.You wonder; how did this young person get to this horrible spot in life? Let’s go back in time, to understand how addiction starts, and how to prevent it from happening. While each addiction […]
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What really causes Acne (Pimples)?

  • September 14, 2022
Acne is a skin disease consisting of blemishes that can occur on your face, neck, chest, shoulders, and back. It is very common during the teen years, but it can affect you during adulthood as well. CausesTo keep your hair and skin well lubricated, your body depends on sebaceous glands which sit just under your […]
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World Breast-feeding week: How breast-milk is made in the body.

Breast milk is quite amazing. It has all the nutrients that a baby needs in its first 6 months of life. The benefits for the baby are impressive. They include lower rates of allergies, ear & lung infections, obesity, and sudden infant death as well as healthier weight gain and other long term outcomes.Mothers can […]
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Stroke: Signs, Symptoms, Recovery, And More…

A stroke may occur when the brain doesn’t get enough oxygen or when there is bleeding in the brain. The most common cause of a stroke is a blockage in a blood vessel to the brain, which is often due to a blood clot getting trapped where the blood vessel gets narrow. When the blood […]
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What causes Stomach Ulcers?

Ulcers are painful sore(s) present in the protective lining of the digestive tract in humans. It is mostly attributed to a bacterium called Helicobacter Pylori (H.pylori). H. Pylori has attached itself to humanity for thousands of years, and is now believed to be in up to 50% of the total human population. Medical experts previously […]
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How Addiction to alcohol can sneak up on you

Much like Rome, alcohol addictions are not developed in a day. However, the timeline for alcohol addiction differs by individual. It takes just a couple of drinks for some to get hooked, while the build-up in gradual consumption leads to addiction for others. To stop it before it causes more harm, we must address the […]
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immune system

THE BATTLE WITHIN – MOBILIZING YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

It's a war – guerrilla warfare. From the point of view of the pathogen (a term used interchangeably with disease-causing microbes, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi), we are just big storehouses of goodies for them to grow on; next to the brain, the immune system is the body's most complex system.
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Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE COVERAGE

For the goal of universal health coverage to be actualized, every arm of the scheme (i.e clients, health care providers, health insurance companies) need to see itself as a key player and get involved.
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