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How to Cure Arthritis
- October 3, 2018
- Posted by: Dr. Nnamdi Elenwoke
- Category: Health
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The way I deal with arthritis is to keep moving. As long as I can play hard tennis, as long as I can ski or ride a horse – all kinds of things can come your way. As long as you can, do it. People who retire die. My dad retired and died shortly after.
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Private Practice in Nigeria
- June 2, 2018
- Posted by: Dr. Nnamdi Elenwoke
- Category: Health
Private Practice and Law Should Government Doctors Be Allowed To Do Private Practice? This is a very common question. There is no law in Nigeria stopping doctors in public hospitals from private practice. So, doctors in public hospitals are free to own and run private hospitals. There are little number of government-owned hospitals in Nigeria.
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A New Ear Transplant Inside A Soldier’s Forearm
- May 14, 2018
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Health News
On Monday, US Army surgeons announced that they had successfully transplanted a soldier’s ear onto her head after “growing” it inside her forearm. US Army photo / Via army.mil In the total ear reconstruction, plastic surgeons at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, used cartilage from […] Click here to view original
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Interview with Odinaka Anudu (Businessday Newspapers)
- May 8, 2018
- Posted by: Dr. Lateef Basaru
- Category: Health News
NNAMDI C. ELENWOKE is a neurosurgeon based in Basque, Spain. He works in a hospital in Santiago Apostol, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. In this interview with ODINAKA ANUDU, he speaks on brain drain, medical tourism and why Nigerian doctors in the Diaspora are not interested in returning home. Brain drain in the Nigerian Health sector Indeed, brain drain is a
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DOCOTAL: DIGITAL DOCTORS PART 2
- November 24, 2017
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Health News
Saving millions of lives After waiting for almost 5 hours to see the doctor at the General Hospital in Ikeja, Lagos State, Mr. Olutayo Ayinla was finally given an appointment to see the consultant Cardiologist. But wait… it wasn’t the next day, but in the next 35 days because of so many patients on the
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DOCOTAL: DIGITAL DOCTORS PART 1
- November 11, 2017
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Health News
We live in a rapidly changing world where information even from doctors comes to us at break-neck speed through the internet. Thanks in large part to the Internet of Things (IoT), the world has become connected like never before. This has generated tremedous benefits across a variety of industries, with the healthcare sector not left behind. Harvard drop
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Meningitis
- May 10, 2017
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Diseases and Conditions
Introduction According to the World Health Organization, Meningitis is an infection of the meninges, the membrane covering the brain. Every year, bacterial meningitis epidemics affect more than 400 million people living in the 26 countries of the extended “African meningitis belt” (from Senegal to Ethiopia). Sуmрtоmѕ commonly аѕѕосiаtеd with bоth miсrоbе аnd virаl mеningitiѕ соnѕiѕt