Life before Marriage: The Significance of Partners Knowing Their Genotype
ABDULAZEEZ Rahmah writes, Ahead of marriage, finding a perfect future partner that says yes to you is such a beautiful thing. You finally get a life partner to walk with…
PEN HEALTH: What You Should Know About Rabies
Yusuf Abdulbasit Hozaifah writes, Rabies is an acute viral disease of the central nervous system (CNS) caused by rhabdovirus, a pathogen carried in the saliva of rabid (infected) animals;…
PEN HEALTH: Constipation is no Respecter of Persons
Abdulkareem Ismail writes, Constipation is one of the most common problems of the digestive system. It is a universal problem that doesn’t care about the rank, age, profession, sex, status…
A Caution to Prioritising The Need for Physical Health
Yusuf Abdulbasit Hozaifah writes, Many of us take our health for granted, we are so preoccupied with our hectic life activities– works and family issues that our health seems…
PEN HEALTH: Causes of Peptic Ulcer and Possible Remedies
Abalu Khadijat Opeyemi writes, Peptic ulcers are open sores that develop on the inside lining of your stomach and the upper portion of your small intestine. The most common symptom…
PEN HEALTH: High Blood Pressure; The Silent killer
Yusuf Abdulbasit Hozaifah writes, Blood pressure is the measurement of the pressure or force of blood pushing against blood vessel walls. High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is blood pressure…
HIV/AIDS: Breaking The Silence
Promise Eze writes, Yesterday was World’s AIDS day. Nasiru Aliyu, the president of the Anti–AIDS club on campus, gave me a HIV self-help test kit for free. The self-help kit…
DANGER OF SKIN BLEACHING
Yusuf Hassan Wada writes from UDUTH A worrying trend which seems to be gaining normalcy in Nigeria today is skin bleaching, also called lightening or whitening, particularly in teenagers and…