You are in bed with your partner ( or wherever else the action is taking place), and you’re excited and anticipating a long and pleasurable time together.
Then before you can begin, it abruptly ends; you’ve orgasmed. Now you and your partner are disappointed and frustrated, and you feel more than a tad embarrassed.
There’s no set time to when sex should last. But if you find…
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common hormone disorder that affects women of childbearing age. It can cause various symptoms, including excess facial and body hair and hair loss.
While some women with this condition experience excess hair growth in unusual places in the body, others experience severe hair loss, also called female patterned baldness.
Why does PCOS cause hair loss?
The female…
Food has a lot to do with your body and your health, so do not be too surprised that it can help you get and maintain an erection. As the apt saying goes, you are what you eat.
Erectile dysfunction is the most common sexual health dysfunction, affecting one-third of men globally. While there are several treatment options to tackle this condition, you can also reduce symptoms by consuming specific…
Most men in their lifetime will experience premature ejaculation.
According to research, 30 to 40 percent of men experience this, so as you can tell, it is a pretty common condition.
It does beg the question, why do so many men experience premature ejaculation? One of the leading causes of premature ejaculation is performance anxiety.
Causes of performance anxiety
From research, more men than…
It is not abnormal to lose a bit of hair. We lose about 50-100 hairs daily. However, when it begins to fall incessantly and in large quantities, you may be experiencing alopecia areata.
Alopecia is a relatively common autoimmune disorder that causes people affected to lose hair unpredictably. Sometimes it appears in small circular bald patches on the head or the temples. It can be extreme and…
Anna Qabale Duba, a Kenyan nurse who campaigns against Female genital mutilation ( FGM), has been crowned World Best Nurse.
Qabale is the first recipient of the inaugural Aster Guardian Global Nursing Award. She also won a prize of $250,000 (£205,000), which she says made her “speechless.”
Anna Qabale Duba’s colleagues describe her as someone who shows up and goes the extra mile…
The immune system is the body’s best defence mechanism against infections. A robust immune system protects you from viral and bacterial infections which come with symptoms like flu, fever, and colds. When your immune system is weakened, your risk of getting these infections and falling sick increases.
Since the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020, the immune system has been a trending topic across…
If your heart is burning with anything other than passion, there’s cause for concern. Heartburn is a burning feeling in the chest caused by stomach acid travelling up towards the throat (acid reflux).
If it keeps happening, it is called gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). Lots of people get heartburn from time to time. There is often no apparent reason why.
Sometimes it is caused or…
Steve Brooks, a British ex-Army Medic who volunteered to train medically train Ukraine troops, said he saw “inhuman” acts while he was in the war.
The 46-year-old former Army medic supported by local Somerset Aid for Ukraine and his wife Tabby at home travelled from his hometown in Shepton Mallet in the UK to volunteer during the war, helping to train soldiers on first aid…
Africa’s only Covid-19 vaccine production plant, Aspen Pharmacare, might be forced to shut down its operations due to low patronage.
In November 2021, the company based in South Africa obtained a license to repackage and sell Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine for distribution across Africa.
However, it’s since been hit by low demand as Africans don’t seem very keen on taking…