The World Health Organization has warned the public to cultivate the use of condoms during sex as it’s becoming dangerous for those who take part in oral sex. It warns that if someone contracts gonorrhea through oral sex, it’s now much harder to treat, and in some cases impossible. Experts sa...

The ability to smell food may be making you fat, while its absence may trick the body into thinking that it has already eaten, scientists say. Researchers, including those from University of California, Berkeley in the US found that obese mice that lost their sense of smell also lost weight on a ...

Poor, disrupted sleep may indicate the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease in people who are otherwise healthy, a study warns. Researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US found that people who reported worse sleep quality, more sleep problems and daytime sleepiness had more biol...

As a woman goes from her 20s to her 30s to her 40s sans having kids, she’s likely to hear more and more people warn her about the pregnancy risks, but now, a new research has shown that it’s not only the female fertility clock that’s ticking. The study from the USA in IVF couples […]...

According to Dr Adebule Segun, consultant obstetrics and gynecologist and Medical Director, Molly Hospital Ibadan, said there are lots of reasons women feel pains in their breasts. When a woman’s breast feels sore and tender, it could be annoying and could create fear in the woman’s but gener...

Cancer survivors are 38 per cent less likely to become pregnant as compared to their healthy counterparts, a study has found. Researchers from University of Edinburgh in the UK studied girls and women aged 39 or under. They cross-linked 23,201 female cancer survivors. They found only 6,627 pregna...

High-fat diet during pregnancy may increase the risk of breast cancer in up to three generations of offspring, a study warns. Researchers fed pregnant female mice a diet high in fat derived from common corn oil. This resulted in genetic changes that substantially increased breast cancer susceptib...

An Indonesian Pharmaceutical company in Nigeria known as Dexa Medica delivered relief medical materials to Bodija traders in Ibadan. The event was tagged “Pain Free Day.” The team which consisted of experts in general medicine and ophthalmology also carried out routine medical check-ups as we...

Individuals who take drugs that are commonly used to treat heartburn, ulcers and other gastrointestinal problems for a prolonged time may be at an increased risk of death, researchers warned. The findings showed that people taking these drugs called as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) had a 50 per c...

Ladies, take note! Menstruating does not affect your working memory, cognitive bias or ability to pay attention to different tasks at once, say scientists who contradict the belief that anyone who is on their period is not working at top mental pitch. Researchers examined the three aspects of cog...