By Joke Kujenya SUDDENLY, CARE becomes urgent in Gummi as the rainy season drives a surge of complicated malaria cases, filling the wards of the Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (DWB/MSF) supported hospital in northwestern Nigeria. JKNewsMedia.com gathered that inside the facility, mothers sit beside metal beds, watching chi...
By Joke Kujenya FEAR ONCE followed the sound of a child, Uzodinma Peters, 7, struggling to walk as members of her parents’ families watched polio leave permanent scars on her young life. “It has not been easy,” said the mother to JKNewsMedia.com. “For six out of her seven years of life, this disease has maimed [&hellip...
By Joke Kujenya CHIAMAKA OBI suddenly noticed unusual bleeding and persistent fatigue. But she said she delayed seeing a doctor because she was unaware that a common virus could threaten her life. Today, she said her condition is compounded as she’s managing her health. Similarly, across Nigeria, thousands of women face dicey risks from...
By Joke Kujenya PREVENTION AND cure remain achievable for cervical cancer when women have proper access to screening, vaccination and treatment, the United Nations (UN) has said, as global attention turns again to awareness and elimination of the disease. The UN stated that cervical cancer remains one of the most significant health challenges...
By Humphrey Ukeaja FESTIVE PERIODS occupy a strategic place in the marketing calendars of Big Food corporations. National and religious holidays such as Christmas, New Year, Easter, Eid-el-Fitr and Eid-el-Kabir provide predictable moments of heightened consumption, social gathering and emotional openness. Food and beverage advertising during ...
By Joke Kujenya REDUCED RISK of dementia has been linked to shingles vaccination following a large-scale study by researchers at the University of Oxford examining long term health outcomes among older adults. The findings were published in the journal Nature Medicine and drawn from an analysis of electronic medical records covering 100 milli...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent HOUSEHOLDS CAN use charcoal for more than cooking, with applications ranging from odour absorption to food preservation and personal hygiene, the release states, highlighting its benefits cited by experts. For homes concerned about odours, material scientists note that placing charcoal in shoes...
By Joke Kujenya CONTRIBUTING TO about 3.7 million deaths worldwide in 2024 and costing more than US$3 trillion annually, obesity has become one of the most significant global health challenges, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated. Similarly, childhood obesity has overtaken underweight as the most widespread form of malnutrition, with o...
By Joke Kujenya GLOBAL IMMUNISATION campaigns have prevented an estimated 59 million measles deaths since 2000, yet infections surged in 2024, highlighting persistent gaps in vaccination coverage and public health systems, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported. WHO revealed that around 95,000 people, predominantly children under fi...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent HEIGHTENED CONCERN over Nigeria’s rising diabetes burden shaped a strong appeal from Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) on Friday as the organisation supported the Diabetes Association of Nigeria (DAN) in urging the Federal Government to declare a national emergenc...
