Mr Akinola woke up to the cock’s crow, just like he had been doing for the past thirty years now. He got off his mattress and went in search of water to wash his face. As he stepped out of his house, he looked around to the overly familiar rural setting that stared right back…
DetailsNews broke out on Monday 8th July 2019 in the Headquarters of the Nigerian Customs service as an assistant superintendent of customs, stormed the office of the Comptroller General of customs and demanded that he be handed over to as he has been promoted to the rank of Deputy Comptroller General by the President. Obviously…
DetailsAs an extension of the discussion of chronic diseases, we move up to the chest, specifically the lungs. There’s a good deal to know about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is really an umbrella term used to describe progressive lung diseases including emphysema, chronic bronchitis and some medical literature would say, refractory (non-reversible) asthma.…
DetailsChronic diseases have a common feature, in the persistence of symptoms over a averagely long period of time. This fact readily comes to mind in the diagnosis of chronic liver disease, in which symptoms established must have lasted for about 6 months to validate a diagnosis of the disease…. Chronic liver disease is a persistent…
DetailsChronic diseases have come to be a mainstay of clinically managed cases for renal units in most Nigerian hospitals. As usual, prevention would be an important determining factor in the continuance or cessation of this trend. In this series, we’ll discuss chronic disorders of important organs in the body and their sequelae. The first…
DetailsA syndrome is defined as a recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours. In other words, a combination of classic signs attached to some particular conditions makes them syndromes. In the case of syndrome X, most of the disorders associated with it don’t have obvious signs and symptoms, defying the first rule of the word…
DetailsAny basic definition of ‘food’ should revolve around the central idea that you take in food to nourishment. Why then should we let our food be the very cause of ill health? Problems arising from poor food hygiene and sanitation are at best unpleasant, a few episodes of vomiting and diarrhea might suffice; at worst,…
DetailsThe developed world has experienced the transition from the nutritional burden of under nutrition to obesity, that’s a whole new set of problems too anyway. Yet, the developing countries are still most affected. Why? There’s now a double burden of nutrition on most developing countries. On one side is the privileged and well-fed population tending…
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