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Today is world stroke day and it's no news that stroke has been recognized as one of Nigeria's  leading causes of mortality. what actually is a stroke? In plain English a stroke is simply a condition that arises due to cell death in parts of the brain, usually due to an impeded blood flow to this region. Strokes could be Ischemic[reduced blood flow] or hemorrhagic[caused by bleeding] stroke has an avalanche of cause ranging from hypertension to high blood cholesterol levels to end-stage kidney disease and lots more but the leading cause of stroke is definitely hypertension. How then do you know if you're having a stroke or if you are at risk of a stroke? like other medical conditions, stroke might present a myriad of symptoms. But the main symptoms may include;  1. Arm drift If when you try to raise both hands you involuntarily let one hand drift downward you could be at risk for stroke. in fact this sign alone could increase the risk of a stroke by up to 5.5 * 2. Sudden ...

 You must have heard a bunch of stories about the technicalities involved in  getting accepted into med school not just in Nigeria but across the globe.  This blog post is designed to give you tested methodologies to securing a med school slot in Nigeria The number of med students that can be admitted into major medical colleges in Nigeria happens to fixed in most cases. This carrying capacity is usually called a "quota"  Universities with more facilities for training  the "would be" doctors usually have a higher quota. While the university of Ibadan and the university of Nigeria Nsukka both have a quota of 180, other medical schools like the college of medicine, university of lagos have a quota of 150 most other schools have lower quotas. It is also important to note that fully accredited medical schools tend to be more competitive and hence more difficult to get into. Same goes for federal universities since the general idea is that they are cheap and offer th...

HOW SOCIAL MEDIA RUINS OUR LIVES; AN ANALYSIS, A SYNOPSIS OF      THE BIGGER PICTURE     A productive day means different things to different people. To some, it’s simply a day when you achieve all your set goals. To others, it might mean having a relatively stoic day, and to others, well it could mean the avalanche of definitions productivity has been given over the past couple of years. WHAT TRULY IS PRODUCTIVITY?      While there might be a myriad of philosophies as to what productivity truly typifies, productivity simply means being productive.     When humans joined the existential race they were faced with the bleak possibility of elimination by competition, in short; only those with favorable traits that can aid their survival get to reproduce and pass their favorable characteristics to their offspring.    It has been an ever-competitive world and the competition only gets even fiercer with an increased popu...