The Chief Executive Officer (Ceo), Sarisand Healthcare Consultancy, Lagos, DR Andrew Isiorho, on Sunday called for behavioural change and regular exercise, as a way of managing stress.
Isiorho gave the advice during a presentation titled “Stress: its relationship with hypertension and how it can be managed’’.

Health this week
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TUBECULOSIS is a contagious infection that involves the lung. Tuberculosis is caused by the bacterium mycobacterium tuberculosis and it is spread through the air. Nearly 1.5 million people are killed globally by the infection every year and there are concerns some cases are becoming untreatable. These diseases-causing bacteria are discharged into the atmosphere in the form of minute droplets when patients infected with tuberculosis cough, speak or sneeze. These droplets have a tendency to evaporate quickly but the bacteria continue to be airborne for a very long time.

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The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU),   and the Assembly of Health Care Professionals in a statement made available to newsmen and a copy obtained by Daily Champion has made its position known on the on-going nationwide strike embark by health workers.

RESEARCHERS  at the Oxford University in Britain have discovered that the age of 13 is the optimum age for monthly periods to begin and women who start their cycles at age ten or younger or 17 or older appear to be more likely to have a heart condition or stroke.

Health this week
Phone: 08032931255 nekzyion@yahoo,co.uk

TUBECULOSIS is a contagious infection that involves the lung. Tuberculosis is caused by the bacterium mycobacterium tuberculosis and it is spread through the air. Nearly 1.5 million people are killed globally by the infection every year and there are concerns some cases are becoming untreatable. These diseases-causing bacteria are discharged into the atmosphere in the form of minute droplets when patients infected with tuberculosis cough, speak or sneeze. These droplets have a tendency to evaporate quickly but the bacteria continue to be airborne for a very long time.

IN commemoration of World AIDS Day 2014, Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited in partnership with Friends Africa (Friends of the Global Fund Africa), a pan-African NGO, organized a week long HIV/AIDS outreach in Lagos, enabling about 4,000 persons to take the HIV test.

Nigerian children are currently undergoing Pneumonia vaccination across the Nation.
The exercise which commenced on the 15th of December, 2014is aim at introducing the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV10) into the country’s routine immunization schedule where all children under the age of one are expected to receive three doses of the vaccine.

Women’s bodies are always changing. Sometimes changes that seem normal can be signs of cancer, though. The key is to pay attention to your body so you can notice when something’s different. So what should you watch for?
Breast changes

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr.Rui Gama Vaz, yesterday said the situation of health workforce in Nigeria is a critical constraint to health development.

Dr Izunwa Osita Edmund is president of Association of Resident Doctors , Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Anambra State . The Association held her medical week yesterday during which she visited the less privileged , organized football matches, among others. In this interview with AMAECHI PERCY ONYEJEKWE, Izunwa spoke on a number of issues affecting heath care delivery system in the country. Excerpts