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A sexual health expert, Omolola Adefuye, says men engaging in masturbation with the hope that ejaculating through it can help prevent prostate cancer should stop it, noting that there is no scientific evidence to back their assumption. Adefuye, a Lagos-based sex therapist, said while there are studies suggesting ejaculation during sexual intercourse could help reduce the risk of getting prostate cancer in males, there is no research indicating that engaging in masturbation has similar benefits. Also known as self-induced orgasm, masturbation is the act of stimulating, rubbing, or caressing the genitals or other parts of the body for pleasure. On the prevalence of masturbation, a 2011 survey carried out in America, showed that across age groups, more males (73.8%) reported masturbation than females (48.1%). “Among males, masturbation occurrence increased with age: at age 14 years, 62.6% of males reported at least 1 prior occurrence, whereas 80% of 17-year-old males reported ...

A report by the IDF diabetes atlas, titled, ‘Diabetes the Ever Growing Problem’ has revealed that about 6.7 million deaths recorded globally are linked to Diabetes Mellitus. This was even as experts called for the introduction of a specific tax on all sugar-sweetened beverages and not only carbonated drinks. While making a presentation at a public lecture hosted by the National Action on Sugar Reduction on Tuesday, the President, Diabetic Foot Nigeria Initiative Nigeria Representative, Mrs. Felicia Anumah, said the prevalence of diabetes in Nigeria ranged between 0.6 and 15 per cent. Anumah, who is also a Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology at the University of Abuja quoted the report, saying about 537 million adults across the world were currently living with the disease out of which 24 million emerged from Africa. She noted that despite the advanced treatment available for diabetes, the outcome was variable partly due to insufficient empowerment of persons suffering f...

Abdominal bloating is bothersome and painful. Usually, it’s a result of digestive problems. In this account, surprisingly, it’s oral sex that caused the belly of a woman, age 24, to expand and look like a balloon. During all the years we’ve been working here we’ve heard many strange stories that stemmed from having sex, but this is a first.  A woman, age 24, showed up in the emergency room at Stanford (California) Medical Center after experiencing severe abdominal and chest pain for six hours. Her pain was quite sharp and had spread throughout her abdomen, yet she had no other symptoms. Doctors had already seen this woman twice.  She had been admitted a year before, and had returned six months later with the same problem. Both times, doctors didn’t find a specific cause for her pain. In X-rays, the results were the same: air was detected in the abdominal cavity (peritoneum).  This condition can be caused by a number of factors, from perforated ulcers to intest...