At first sight, its symptoms may be mistaken for those of a heart attack. Dr Dieudide Dovonou, a general practitioner at the « Le Safran » clinic in Baguida, explains that angina pectoris causes a constrictive, vise-like pain that radiates into the a
Health professionals say it over and over again: exercise is good for your health. But the Togolese population is increasingly sedentary. Lack of exercise is an aggravating factor in many chronic diseases: diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascula
Red, white, straw yellow, ochre, brown or even black... honey comes in different colours. How do you explain this? It's simple: each flower foraged by a bee leaves its own identity card in the honey it produces: its taste, its aromas and its colour.
Many households in Togo have a medicine chest containing drugs that they use to relieve common ailments. Some even use products on the advice of a parent or relative who has had experience of them, without the advice of a health worker. This is self-
Société Nouvelle de Boissons (SNB) organized an after-work with its media partners on December 01, 2023 in Lomé. The aim of this initiative was to consolidate relations with the media in order to increase the impact of SNB products with consumers...
A ceremony to award trophies and certificates of excellence to partner health centers, winners of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) took place on Friday December 01, 2023, at the Hôtel 2 Février in Lomé. The winning ...
On 05 and 06 December 2023, Lomé was the venue for the regional workshop marking the end of the AmplifyPF and West AfricaBreakthrough Action (WABA) projects. The meeting brought together around a hundred participants from the four countries to review
The neck is made up of 85 muscles, the best known of which are the trapezius. They support the head and join the chest. Because they are in high demand, they are all the more at risk of contracture. While a wrong movement is most often responsible fo
Seven months after its inauguration, the Dogta-Lafiè Hospital (HDL) is getting closer to patients by opening an annex at the Résidence Renaissance (Lomé). The annex was inaugurated on Friday 01 December 2023 in the presence of Jean-Marie Koffi Ewono
Although the term diabetes is generally used to designate the disease associated with a tendency to have high blood sugar levels (glycaemia), it is important to know that there are two substantially different types of diabetes in terms of the mechani
Living with diabetes, a disease that is treated but not cured, is not easy every day. The diagnosis and sometimes difficult management of the disease are all risk factors for developing depression. Dr Abdou Razak Moukaila, Internist and Diabetologist
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have found that prolactin, a hormone produced during breastfeeding to stimulate milk production, increases the number of beta cells in the pancreas. These cells help to regulate bl