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Ramadan: Health benefits of fasting

Fasting is the willful refrainment from eating, smoking, sexual intercourse, drinking among others. Several metabolic adjustments occur during fasting

‘Why tetanus is on the rise among pregnant women’

The Director General of the Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Janet Ekpenyong, has decried the increasing rate of maternal a

Experts task media on ending infertility stigma

The Merck Foundation and fertility experts have enjoined the media to give wider coverage to fertility issues in other to end the stigma associated wi

Experts urge more effort to locally produce ready to use therapeutic foods

Experts under the Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) advocacy consortium have called for increased and sustained efforts towards local production of Read

How bitter yam helps with diabetes, fertility, others

Bitter yam, also called kosanrogo in Hausa, ona in Igbo and esuru in Yoruba, is a delicacy that has a lot of medicinal values, according to experts. I