Past Issue

The poor state of health of mothers and their new born babies in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State due to malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency during pregnancy is at increase rate. Some of which are low foetus productivity, low birth weight, cretinisim, brain damage, and above all are maternal morbidity and perinatal mortality. All these health problems could be resolved or reduced to the lowest minimum using a very cheap and affordable plant known as Moringa oleifera – a nutritional supplement.

Pregnancy continues to carry a high risk of death worldwide, despite numerous commitments to address the issues that increase maternal mortality. Maternal mortality is a tragedy for the family, as the death of a mother deprives the child of breast feeding and can result in infant mortality. Maternal health education is aimed at improving health knowledge of mothers and enhancing their health attitude. This study was designed to determine the effects of maternal health education on the health knowledge and attitude of pregnant mothers attending antenatal clinics in Anambra State.

Diabetes mellitus is one of the chronic complex diseases which affect the physiological, social and psychological aspects of life interfering with the functional health status of clients. As a chronic disorder, diabetes mellitus is a lifelong condition. In addition, it is either incurable and/or results in pathological changes that limit normal functioning, but controllable by lifestyle changes and medication. As the disease affects all aspects of life, it disrupts patterns of personal functioning and also produces a state of psychological, social and physical imbalance.

Diabetes is a problem of body with increase blood glucose level to rise higher than normal called as hyperglycemia. Type- 2 diabetes is most common form of diabetes with a treatment of pills, insulin and lifestyle changes. Management of diabetes type-2 without side effect is a challenge for medical community. Traditional medicine derived from medicinal plant are used by 60 % of world’s population. This reviews focuses on use of murrayakoenigii (Curry leaves) in the treatment of diabetes. Curry leaves has been reported for its antidiabetic, antioxidant property

A new, simple, precise, sensitive, accurate, and reproducible spectrophotometric method have been developed for the determination of Glimepiride in pure and dosage forms. Method is based on oxidation of the drug with 1,10 phenanthroline producing orange colored chromogen which is measured at 470 nm. Beer’s law is obeyed in the concentration range of  0.8-8.0 µg/mL for the developed method.The molar absorptivity and Sandell's Sensitivity are found to be9199.14 L mol-1cm-1and 0.053 µg/cm2 respectively.

A novel Zn(II) complex of 2-aminobenzonitrile(ABN)  and   octanoate(OC)  ion was synthesized by using microwave irradiation. Microwave synthesis gives high yield of the complex within a short time. The molecular formula and the probable geometry of the complex have been deduced from elemental analysis, molar conductance, UV, FT-IR, and NMR spectra. The molar conductance indicates that the Zn(II) complex is a non-electrolyte. FT-IR spectra show that 2-aminobenzonitrile is coordinated to the metal ion in a bidentate(N,N-donor) and octanoate ion in monodentate manner.

In the present study, four anionic Mn(II) complexes of various Schiff’s bases such as Salicylaldehyde ethylenediamine (Sal2en), Salicylaldehyde Orthoaminophenol (Sal OAP),Salicylaldehyde Semicarbazone (Sal Sc) and salicylaldehyde o-phenylene diamine (Sal2phen) along with NH4SCN ligand were synthesised.

The main aim of Automatic Humidity Monitoring and Pumping System for Farmers project is to monitor and record values of humidity of natural environment and to pump the plants water at required humidity level in order to achieve maximum plant growth and yield. This paper main intention is to develop a application where it can collect data about soil conditions with a low cost equipment and less labour involved. It can also possible with the help of a drip irrigation system, through solar power, using vocal commands through the mobile phone and wireless sensor network.

Aiming at the problems in current community health management such as substandard management, failure of real-time supervision and outdated technology in health management, this article proposes the “family + community + hospital” three-level health management model, and makes detailed introduction to the realization process.

In this paper, a configuration of a three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter that can integrate solar PV with battery storage in a grid-connected system is proposed. This paper illustrates the design of three-port dc–dc converter for stand-alone PV systems based on an improved Flyback-Forward topology.It provides a compact single-unit solution with a combined feature of optimized maximum power point tracking (MPPT), high step-up ratio, galvanic isolation, and multiple operating modes for domestic and aerospace applications