General A cough is likely due to asthma if it refuses to go away over days, weeks or months, is worse at night or early in the morning, or if it comes and goes without notice. A cough is even more likely due to asthma if the child also suffers from a chronic rough skin […]

Just as with any other medical visit, good clinicians ask plenty of questions when confronted with a child who has a headache. Older kids, able to express themselves, can give some account of the degree of discomfort, the severity of a headache, how long it lasts, and how frequently they have it. Parents or other […]

I am special and full of admiration I wonder what it would be like to admire all of life creations I hear my song on the pages of every memoir I see similarity in all life I want to be special, but can’t I am special and full of admiration I pretend I know myself […]

Many of the men came regularly and Matt knew them by name – at least by their nicknames. Kris laid supine, flexing and extending one knee after the other. Ejikeme throttled up and down a short distance. A man whom Matt had seen many times without ever hearing anyone scream his name during a game […]

Men nostalgic for the game they once played come to relive their boyhood at pickup soccer. To score that goal they missed playing as children in the backyards of their homes and on street corners with friends. To reverse the goal they conceded as goalie when they let their team down. Other grown-ups come to […]

I would like everyone to read this article thoroughly and appreciate why I am so upset. Following my nephew’s diagnosis of leukemia at UNTH, in Enugu, I requested that the hematology department send a referral note by e-mail to Saint Jude’s, a children’s cancer research hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. This institution is a center […]

Following my nephew’s diagnosis of leukemia at UNTH, in Enugu, I requested that the hematology department send a referral note by e-mail to Saint Jude’s, a children’s cancer research hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. This institution is a center of excellence for the condition my nephew had.   Why did I ask for a referral?  […]

          Pictures of itchy streaky rash caused by poison ivy, one on the left forearm, the other on the left cheek Both kids had wandered into the bush to retrieve a soccer ball Both children did well on Hydrocortisone cream and antihistamine. Pictures taken on June, 2015 by Anselm Anyoha MD […]

Whatever the scenario may be the aftermath is similar; an athlete who blacked out, or who got stunned, or who got dazed. The period from a concussion to recovery is quick, lasting within seconds, or a few minutes. The athlete usually recovers but asked to sit out for the rest of the activity. In some […]

While working at one of the inner city hospitals in New York City, I had the burden of telling a mother that her new born will not go home as planned because baby’s skin is too yellow—jaundiced and that the baby needed to be treated with light {phototherapy}. After hearing my assessment, the mother broke […]