Tag: health

Proper education would help check the spread of sickle cell. A group of medics under the aegis of Sickle Cell ...

An Asian based research showed that a daily dose of anti-HIV medicine can help prevent the disease in high risk ...

The centre was donated by Subomi Balogun. The management of the University of Ibadan (UI) on Friday formally took over ...

Natural bright light helps prevent myopia. Two ophthalmologists on Tuesday said children who stayed indoors most of the time were ...

The project will flag off in the next four months. The National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, said on Monday that ...

The agency boss promised N25,000 cash reward on genuine informants of guinea-worm. The Federal Ministry of Health on Friday called ...

The Ogun Commissioner for Health stated this on Wednesday. The Ogun State Government has closed down 66 illegal hospitals and ...

The doctors said they are concerned for their safety. The doctors’ strike at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital has not been ...

Simone Gbagbo has been moved to Abidjan. Rodrigue Dadje, a lawyer to Simone Gbagbo, the wife of former Ivorian President ...

The Project Manager, Tuberculosis (TB) Control in Adamawa, Stephen John, on Friday said about 250 children were infected with tuberculosis ...

The researchers say more than 10,000 suicides and up to a million cases of depression have been diagnosed. Austerity is ...

The hospital workers will hold a congress on April 29. The Joint Health Sector Unions of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching ...

Metro Eyes limited will be organising an eye care outreach for inmates at the Ikoyi prison. Inmates at Ikoyi prison ...

 Sometime in 1987, at a gathering in Bamako, Mali under the auspices of Unicef and the World Health Organization, African ...

The Nigerian child’s health is the first casualty of President Jonathan’s sympathy for corruption. Nigeria this week began to feel ...

More Nigerians are protecting their potential children from sickle cell Jackie Onyemelukwe was in her final year at Imo State ...

Nigeria is one of few countries where polio still exists. The Kaduna State Primary Health Care Agency on Monday said ...

The accused said she did not have prior knowledge of the contents of the bag which contained methamphetamine A Federal ...

 A school principal forcefully carried out virginity tests on secondary school students. The Ogun State Government has directed that a ...

The Abuja based doctor stated this on Tuesday. A medical practitioner, Adamu Onu, has advised that people should go for ...

Nigeria has one of the highest cases of children unvaccinated against measles. Reflective of the World Health Organisation’s, WHO, report ...

 Number of deaths caused by measles has decreased by 71 per cent. About nine per cent of 20 million children ...

The power outage causes delay even in treatment of critical ailment Activities at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, ...

The Kebbi State Government said on Friday that 100 persons with polio in the state would undergo corrective surgery. The ...

Nigeria is working an international organisation to nip yellow fever in case of any eventuality.