This year’s Nobel season opens Monday with the announcement of the medicine prize. Like every year, speculation is rife about the possible winners,
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IN less than 12 hours after the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU and Assembly of Health Care Professionals announced the suspension ‘in principle’
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Scores of midwives, on Tuesday, from across the country under the Federal Government’s Midwifery Service Scheme rallied over non-payment of allowances by the
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The Federal Government is set towards achieving its goals of decreasing maternal and infant morbidity and mortality rate by ensuring that about 7.3
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The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) has accepted to present outcome of re-negotiated Memorandum of Terms of Settlement (MTS) reached
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The Managing Director of Clearline Health Maintenance Organisation (HMO), Dr. Isaac Akintunji, has reiterated the need for best practices in corporate governance in
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The Federal Government has directed Chief Medical Directors of Federal Hospitals to immediately engage the services of locum doctors, to augment the services
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Dr Olabode Shabi, Chairman of the Society of Family Physicians of Nigeria, (SFPN) Ekiti Zone, has said that about seven million Nigerians currently
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A Chemical Pathologist, Prof. Ganiyu Arinola, has advised men against putting cellphone in their trouser pockets, saying it may cause male infertility. Arinola,
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The ‘multimammate rat’ called Mastomys natalensis which has many breasts and lives in the bush and around residential areas is the reservoir host
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Officials confirmed yesterday three more cases of Lassa fever in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial and business honeypot. But the state government urged residents not
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Nigeria currently generates 24 million tonnes of waste annually at refuse dumpsites across the country, an environmental expert has said. Dr Chukwukelo Chukwogo,
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The Japanese Government has handed over a 15-bed capacity clinic, fully equipped with solar powered panels, to Shere Community in Bwari Area Council,
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he Caesarean Section (CS) option in child delivery is becoming popular among Nigerian women, a survey by our correspondents reveals. Respondents told NAN
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Dr Ogunmodede James, a consultant cardiologist, on Tuesday advised the public to avoid sedentary lifestyles to prevent heart related diseases. James told the
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The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole has directed the Chief Executive Officer of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof Usman Yusuf, to
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According to the World Health Organisation, oral sex is producing gonorrhoea that is difficult to treat. WHO says gonorrhoea has become very hard,
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A cholesterol-lowering vaccine has shown promise in mice, said researchers Tuesday who announced they had started early-phase trials to see if it also
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Dr Eshan Henshaw, a Consultant Dermatologist with University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, said most skin disorders on humans were largely caused by bleaching
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Not fewer than 50 doctors and other health care workers including trauma nurses are undergoing a surgical training on special skills for the treatment
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Ailing President Muhammadu Buhari has regained his strength,significantly improved, doing very good, okay and awaiting his doctor’s nod to return to Nigeria The
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