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2026 School of Pharmacy

Balancing Patient Autonomy and Medical Responsibility in Steroid Dependency Management: Ethical Dilemmas, Clinical Realities, and Practical Pathways

Taliikwa Nicholas Ceaser

2026 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | Pp. 68-72

Steroid dependency, most commonly involving long-term systemic glucocorticoids, sits at a difficult intersection of symptom relief, physiologic adaptation (HPA-axis suppression), psychological reliance, and iatrogenic harm. Clinicians routinely face ethically...

2026 School of Pharmacy

Assessing Healthcare Providers’ Knowledge and Attitudes Towards HIV/AIDS in Nigerian Hospitals: A Narrative Review

Arionget Jemima

2026 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | Pp. 63-67

Healthcare providers (HCPs) are central to Nigeria’s HIV response, yet gaps in HIV knowledge, fear of occupational exposure, and stigmatizing attitudes can undermine testing, treatment uptake, retention, and patient dignity. This narrative review synthesizes...

2026 School of Pharmacy

Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Analytics in Nigeria’s Energy Sector: A Review, Use-Case Map, and Implementation Roadmap

Arionget Jemima

2026 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | Pp. 58-62

Nigeria’s energy sector faces persistent challenges: demand–supply imbalance, grid instability, high technical/commercial losses, fuel supply constraints, and operational downtime across electricity and hydrocarbons. Predictive analytics (forecasting, anomaly...

2026 School of Pharmacy

Airborne Particulate Matter and Systemic Inflammation: Mechanisms, Health Impacts, and Public Health Implications

Kungu Erisa

2026 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | Pp. 22-28

Airborne particulate matter (PM) is a major component of air pollution and represents a significant global public health concern. Fine and ultrafine particles derived from traffic emissions, industrial processes, biomass burning, and natural sources can penet...

2026 School of Pharmacy

Agricultural Expansion and Urbanization as Drivers of Malaria Transmission: A Narrative Review

Taliikwa Nicholas Ceaser

2026 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | Pp. 53-57

Malaria transmission is increasingly shaped by rapid land-use and demographic transitions. Agricultural expansion alters vector ecology through deforestation, irrigation, crop intensification, and labor migration, often creating new larval habitats, changing...

2026 School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Addressing Stigma and Bias in Healthcare for Individuals Dependent on Steroids: Clinical and Ethical Approaches to Treatment

Bizimana Rukundo T.

2026 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | Pp. 98-102

Steroid dependence, particularly involving non-medical anabolic-androgenic steroid use, presents significant clinical, psychological, and ethical challenges. Affected individuals may experience cardiovascular, endocrine, reproductive, hepatic, renal, and psyc...

2026 Faculty of Clinical Medicine and Dentistry

Redefining feed efficiency through the livestock gut microbiome

Matthew Chidozie Ogwu, Sylvester Chibueze Izah, Esther Ugo Alum, Olugbemiga Ojo Aliu, Morufu Olalekan Raimi and Ayebapreye Kari

2026 | Frontiers in Physiology | Pp. 1-11

Feed efficiency remains a central goal in livestock production because it determines both economic viability and environmental performance. Yet conventionalmeasures such as feed conversion ratio and residual feed intake often treatefficiency as a host-level o...

2026 Faculty of Clinical Medicine and Dentistry

Transformation products of emerging contaminants and their formation pathways, environmental fate, predictive modeling, and regulatory risk implications

Matthew Chidozie Ogwu, Sylvester Chibueze Izah, Olugbemiga Ojo Aliu, Ayebapreye Kari and Esther Ugo Alum

2026 | Discover Environment | Pp. 1-56

Transformation products (TPs) of emerging contaminants are emerging as a major frontier in environmental chemistry, toxicology, and regulatory science because many exhibit greater persistence, mobility, bioavailability, or biological activity than their paren...

2026 School of Natural and Applied Sciences

The role of digital health in pandemic preparedness and response: securing global health?

Chisom Ogochukwu Ezenwaji, Esther Ugo Alum & Okechukwu Paul-Chima Ugwu

2026 | Global Health Action | Pp. 1-4

Background: Digital health technologies, such as mobile applications, wearable devices, and electronic health record systems, have significantly enhanced global health security by enabling timely data collection and analysis, identifying infectious disease tr...

2026 Faculty of Clinical Medicine and Dentistry

Sensitive detection of unopposed estrogen using estrogen receptor functionalized nanoprobes for cancer diagnosis

Daniel Ejim Uti, Esther Ugo Alum, Celestine O. Ogbu, Okechukwu Paul-Chima Ugwu, Godwin Eneji Egbung, Item Justin Atangwho, Mequanente Dagnaw and Asif Jan

2026 | Discover Nano | Pp. 1-50

Unopposed estrogen refers to prolonged estrogenic stimulation in the absence of adequate progesterone-mediated counter-regulation. Unopposed estrogen is strongly implicated in endometrial hyperplasia and type I endometrial carcinogenesis, and it is also biolo...