Not very good. In fact, this is to put it mildly. Let’s digress a tad. Let’s travel to Europe, Italy specifically. The 2018 Bloomberg ranking of the countries with the most efficient healthcare systems around the world places Italy fourth. The Italian population also ranks as the second healthiest population in the world. It does…
DetailsAlmost all of our dental advice in this part of the world is lost in between toothbrushes and toothpastes and that’s okay. However, we have it in us to do better. It’s in flossing regularly. Let’s rationalize this act. The research on the connection between flossing and cavities is hazy but that of flossing’s role…
DetailsThe covid-19 pandemic raises a lot of questions regarding special populations, such as the very young ones, elderly ones and as our discussion would suggest, the pregnant ones. Pregnancy remains a normal physiological process however fraught with a number of adjustments to a more ‘stressful’ state. By virtue of this reason, we understand that a…
DetailsThe next time you want to get angry, it’d be a wonderful idea to have this discussion at the back of your mind. Anger is a perfectly normal emotion that we all show from time to time. Sometimes, it’s the much-needed release of feelings gotten that gets our head clear and enables more rational thinking. …
DetailsEvery Nigerian mother who’s had to deal with a ill baby any age around when the teeth normally starts to erupt must have heard of the age long ‘teething syndrome’. Classically, it’s a fever coupled with vomiting, a runny nose, diarrhea and cough in any combination or order. Our grandmothers have managed to pass down…
DetailsIt so happens that the world is currently battling a pandemic that is threatening to change the world as we know it. For those of us yet unaware, the progression of the covid-19 virus infection is markedly altered in people who have co-morbidities. What are co-morbidities? In simple terms, comorbidity refers to the presence of…
DetailsChurches, mosques, schools extending from primary schools down to the tertiary institutions and virtually any public gathering greater than 50 persons have been shut down in a number of Nigerian states. Travel bans have been placed on 13 countries. This happens to be a country with cases still less than 50. Well, it used to…
Details“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die!” Anne Lamott” To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you!” – Lewis B. Smedes. Forgiveness is when you acknowledge that someone hurt you and you are ready to let go of any resentment…
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