Dr. Nnamdi C. Elenwoke is a consultant neurosurgeon at Hospital Santiago Apostol, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. The 35-year-old Nigerian-born physician in this interview with journalists, during a routine visit to Nigeria, said online medical consultation such as that provided by Docotal Health (www.docotal.com) could help to reduce brain drain and medical tourism. ADAKU ONYENUCHEYA was there. Excerpts:

We have launched our DOCOTAL app (IOS version), bringing you faster and easier access to free medical online consultation. We hope you will be informed, inspired and entertained with content from our app.  Once you have synchronized your app with your personal login you are now able to communicate with our doctors and access other Docotal products. With

Apparently the left hand of this government doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, or more likely doesn’t want to know. With the easy prey of grabbing marijuana users in most states and locking them up in prisons for cheap labor while destroying families, there’s little motivation to […] Click here to view original

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system. Richard Lamm Talking about ” Democratization of healthcare ” we need to remind ourselves of the 6 D’s of exponential Technology: 1) Digitization: Once you digitise a product (like healthcare) into 1s and 0s, that product becomes infomation based tech and

Weeks after Tesla founder Elon Musk and Gov. Ricardo Rossello spoke about the tech company aiding Puerto Rico, Tesla says it has restored electricity to a children’s hospital, using solar energy and batteries. Tesla has used its solar panels and batteries to restore reliable electricity at San Juan’s Hospital […] Click here to continue reading

The Nigerian government has expressed worry over the current suspected monkey pox outbreak in the country, which has now spread to 11 states. Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole earlier this week told a meeting attended by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja that the monkey pox virus outbreak has spread to 11 states with 74 suspected

The American Heart Association recently released a report advising against the use of coconut oil. The Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease advisory reviewed existing data on saturated fat, showing coconut oil increased LDL (“bad”) cholesterol in seven out of seven controlled trials. Researchers didn’t see a difference between coconut oil and other oils high in saturated fat, like butter,