Dr Ogunmodede James, a consultant cardiologist, on Tuesday advised the public to avoid sedentary lifestyles to prevent heart related diseases. James told the [...]

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), said on Monday that no fewer than 300,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have benefited from its free medical [...]

The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole has directed the Chief Executive Officer of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof Usman Yusuf, to [...]

The 1 Division of the Nigerian Army has distributed more than 1000 treated mosquito nets to residents of Hayin Danmani community in Kaduna [...]

According to the World Health Organisation, oral sex is producing gonorrhoea that is difficult to treat. WHO says gonorrhoea has become very hard, [...]

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 [...]

Dr Eshan Henshaw, a Consultant Dermatologist with University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, said most skin disorders on humans were largely caused by bleaching [...]

Not fewer than 50 doctors and other health care workers including trauma nurses are undergoing a surgical training on special skills for the treatment [...]

The Bayelsa Government has established a dialysis centre in the state to bring relief to people with kidney and other related health challenges. [...]

No fewer than 15 children have died in war torn South Sudan from a botched attempt to immunise them against measles, officials say. [...]

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 [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday admitted It responded “too slow” in its handling of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. [...]

The coroner inquest into the death of the Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke sitting in Osogbo was on Friday told that the Nurse who [...]

The pathologist, who conducted an autopsy on the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, Dr. Olufemi Solaja, yesterday appeared at the coroner’s inquest set up [...]

Damian Chukwu, Borno State Commissioner of Police, has been hospitalised as a result of an eye injury he suffered when an Army Colonel [...]

Sokoto State Government has commenced the vaccination of two million people against the type “C” strain of meningitis, the Commissioner for Health, Dr [...]

A team of highly skilled doctors from the United States of America will arrive Nigeria this weekend for a medical mission at Ile [...]

Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State and his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Tambuwal on Tuesday pledged total support to end the spread of Cerebrospinal Meningitis [...]

Children are the worst hit in the outbreak of meningitis in Zamfara State as hospitals and health care centres in the State struggle [...]

The death toll as a result of the meningitis epidemic in Sokoto State has now risen to 41, Health Commissioner Dr Balarabe Kakale [...]

About 328 deaths associated with Meningitis have been recorded in the country since November 2016, as 1.3 million vaccines arrived from World Health [...]

Dr Gbemisola Boyede, a consultant Paediatrician at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), has cautioned against the practice of using palm oil as [...]

BENSON Idahosa University, BIU, Benin City, Edo State, has faulted the Federal Government’s clearance that Fanta and Sprite beverages were good for consumption,  insisting [...]

An Abuja-based gynaecologist, Dr Nnamdi Ezenwa, has warned that multiple sexual partners can expose women to Cervicitis, an Inflammation of the cervix. Ezenwa [...]

A medical practitioner, Dr Arikawe Adeolu, on Friday warned the public against consumption of fishes with high mercury content, saying it can cause [...]

The Enugu State Government has commended Umuogili-Amufie community for attaining Open Defecation Free (ODF) status. Mr Charles Egumgbe, the Commissioner, Ministry of Water [...]

The Kaduna State Government says it will immunise three million children under the age of five years against Polio within five days. The [...]