HEPATITIS IS A DEADLY DISEASE... Take time to Read about Hepatitis

WORLD HEPATITIS DAY 2016 with the theme KNOW HEPATITIS - ACT NOW! is a call for more awareness about the disease Hepatitis and particularly, for the correction of the misconceptions that patients have about the disease wherein they often mix it up with Arthritis or Hypertension and thus often risk misusing drugs (by self-medicating against wrong diagnosis using wrong drugs and thus harm in their liver the more).

It is also a call for Healthcare providers to do more in ridding our society of Hepatitis through *proper blood screening prior to transfusion, *increased awareness of the public on the routes/Modes of transmission and prevention of Hepatitis, to mention but a few.

ABUSE OF COUGH SYRUPS AND OTHER DRUGS AMONG NIGERIAN YOUTHS, HARMFUL AND A THREAT, Medical Practitioner warns!

A medical practitioner and staff of Jos University Teaching Hospital, Dr. Steve Anyebe has warned against the abuse of cough syrups and some analgesics by youths and housewives in Kaduna State, citing dangerous health consequences and an increase in societal vices and insecurity.

HOW A VERY EFFECTIVE PAINKILLER COST A WOMAN HER LONG-SOUGHT PREGNANCY (A TALE OF THE EVILS OF SELF MEDICATION)

[BASED ON A TRUE LIFE STORY]
Engr. Smart was reported to have had a waist pain and headed straight to a nearby chemist to purchase a particular brand of a painkiller which contained DICLOFENAC and MISOPROSTOL. 

WHY HIV CANNOT BE DEFEATED IN NIGERIA BY 2070... - ODUDU AKPAETE

Pharmacist Odudu Akpaete 

A Community Pharmacist, Odudu Akpaete practicing in Akwa Ibom State has lamented the abysmal attitude of some members of the society towards the HIV infection and their health.