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The study found that supplements containing zinc and folic acid previously used to treat infertility in men make no difference.

No access to healthcare means that women in this camp act as each other’s midwives.

Prostate cancer is a leading cause of death among, especially black men.

Early detection is often the difference between cure in the early stage of prostate cancer and costly management or even death in the late stages.

The Nigerian Dental Association advises parents on how to clean the mouths of newborns.

The concept of the WHO declaring global public health emergencies first arose after the 2003 Sars coronavirus outbreak.

According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) data, oral diseases are the most common non-communicable diseases worldwide. 

Dentine sensitivity is a common dental problem that causes discomfort or shocking pain in the tooth when it encounters certain substances and temperature.

There were gains and misses as advances and setbacks were recorded in the global fight against diseases

The erroneous belief that Africans do not suffer from autoimmune diseases has caused late diagnosis of the diseases in Nigeria

Since the beginning of 2019, 166 persons have died from Lassa fever in Nigeria.

Huge gaps in testing and prevention of mother-to-child transmission make the goal of ending the epidemic by 2030 in Nigeria unattainable.

It is estimated that only half of the antibiotics consumed in Nigeria are correctly used. This poses an imminent threat to disease treatment in the nearest future.

Some of Nigeria’s health indices provide context to how dire the situation is in the country.

Mrs Adadevoh has received several local and international awards posthumously.

“In many cases, acute renal failure can be reversed if the cause is found and addressed… Information is power; information is health; information is a life-saved!”

For the elimination of malaria to be a reality, the report said, there are conditions that must be met.

The 2019 National Health Dialogue called on Nigeria to reinvigorate its pursuit of universal health coverage by 2030.

Oxygen is vital for life, so much so that cells can sense when there isn’t enough and adapt almost instantly. The winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology figured it out.

Each survivor has a unique story of how they overcame the disease and the impact it has had on their lives.

WHO’s 2016 Global Health Observatory Data Repository estimates that 9.5 suicides per 100,000 occur in Nigeria.

At least 304 deaths have been recorded in 2019 so far. These include 145 deaths from Lassa fever, 124 from measles and 35 from cholera.