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Latest tagged entries for 'HEALTH'
A primer on cancer and chemotherapy
Monday, 26 October 2009 9:27 P GMT+01
A basic primer on cancer and chemotherapy to help understand what it is and how it is treated.
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The importance of nurses, bedpans to my career
Saturday, 17 October 2009 1:07 P GMT+01
Within my professional comfort zone, I viewed bedpans in derogatory language bordering on disgust until I found out through experience in hospital that doing bedpans was essential to my recovery.
The nurses @ OLVG have my deepest gratitude.
In hospital to kill the pain
Wednesday, 23 September 2009 8:26 P GMT+01
Suddenly, I am admitted for treatment in the hospital.
Nigeria: On transparency about Yar'Adua's health
Saturday, 20 June 2009 4:02 P GMT+01
A court barred the President from suing for defamation on a report that suggested he was ill.
If the President refuses to be transparent about his health, the rumours would continue and going to court might just expose the truth about his health.
Gabon: Mr. Bongo, your time is up
Monday, 8 June 2009 5:00 P GMT+01
The prospect of Mr. Bongo demise or impending demise brings into focus the problem with long-serving African leaders who have brought no progress to their countries.
Cover your mouth
Tuesday, 28 April 2009 2:57 A GMT+01
Covering your mouth when you yawn or cough is just plain good manners, but it even matters more today including a covering when you sneeze.
Nigeria: Surely not a wobbly president
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 9:42 A GMT+01
Concerns about the president's health create more concerns for the future of Nigeria, economically and politically.
Nigeria: The embarrassment of maternal mortality
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 9:48 P GMT+01
It is not the fact that a woman gave birth to sextuplets that is of concern but that too many Nigerian women needlessly die at childbirth and Nigeria ranks second on the whole wide world.
Nigeria: Palm, Panic, Pandemonium - Yar'Adua's Lesser Hajj
Tuesday, 9 September 2008 12:07 P GMT+01
Between a lesser Hajj and a major kidney transplant, the health of the President of Nigeria appears to be a pendulum the swings without the assuredness of the truth.
Nigeria: Yar'Adua interviewed by the FT
Tuesday, 20 May 2008 4:01 P GMT+01
I review the interview the Financial Times conducted with President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria.
Nigeria: The Senate Health Bill is rejected
Saturday, 10 May 2008 8:37 A GMT+01
We probably have the most distinguished set of senators ever selected to oversee the issues of health in Nigeria and they failed to present a bill fit for purpose to the Senate.
Nigeria: Yar'Adua healthy from Germany with love
Sunday, 20 April 2008 8:04 P GMT+01
President Yar'Adua is bundled off to Germany in haste for an allergic reaction - it seems there is no one to treat the President for any simple ailment in Nigeria.
Nigeria: Senator frogjumps her back wall
Friday, 18 April 2008 8:54 A GMT+01
The more Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello garners newsprint inches the more embarrassing her case becomes, it is an utter disgrace to say the least.
Nigeria: Senate safety from blame not guns
Monday, 14 April 2008 5:31 P GMT+01
The Senate clears a senator from blame about receiving money for a junket but that did not stop a policemen from blowing his head off where the Senate President was partying for being made the custodian of guns.
Nigeria: The resignation of Adenike Grange
Wednesday, 26 March 2008 12:03 P GMT+01
I conduct an analysis of the issues surrounding the resignation of Professor Adenike Grange - The Nigerian Minister for Health after allegations of graft
Nigeria: Governor's reputation goes up in hospital flames
Sunday, 17 February 2008 2:04 P GMT+01
A new hospital in Maiduguri completed in June 2006 had stayed closed because the state governor was waiting to get the President to cut the tape.
It has now been razed and the governor laments the loss of his reputation, he has more to lose.
Nigeria takes Big Tobacco to court about kids
Wednesday, 7 November 2007 7:17 P GMT+01
Nigeria is suing international cigarette companies on their complicity in allowing their cigarettes to fall into the hands of children.
They do have a cause, but maybe not a case.
That Thabo Mbeki Collective
Thursday, 16 August 2007 11:05 P GMT+01
The sacking of the South African Deputy Minister of Health points to a deeper symptom of celebrating African incompetence championed by African leaders.
Clothes line or clothes nurse
Tuesday, 12 June 2007 1:46 P GMT+01
Clothes to keep tabs on your health, nice idea - where next?
The Pfizer Drug Trial
Wednesday, 23 May 2007 11:28 P GMT+01
Another set of comments and clarifications on my first blog on Humanitarian Pfizer.
Humantarian Pfizer fed Nigerian kids poison drug - allegedly
Monday, 21 May 2007 5:54 P GMT+01
Kano State sues Pfizer for administering unapproved drugs under the guise of humanitarian aid. What prize would they pay for this rotten exercise.
Mind-bending yesterday, mind-mending tomorrow
Friday, 16 March 2007 9:02 P GMT+01
How drugs have changed as we find new uses for things our parents would not touch.
Healing on a jet plane
Tuesday, 13 March 2007 9:10 P GMT+01
Another presidentail candidate jets off to Europe for treatment - Why can they not get treatment in Nigeria?
Yar'Adua crests the stairway to heaven
Wednesday, 7 March 2007 1:49 P GMT+01
If indeed Yar'Adua has passed on, we have happened upon rather inconvenient times.
Yar'Adua - Catching his breath in Germany
Wednesday, 7 March 2007 6:38 A GMT+01
Yar'Adua has spoken to the BBC, he was breathless, he dis not collapse and he is in Germany for a check-up - he would run in the elections in April.
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