The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said that the Federal Government intended to bring cancer treatment facilities closer to Nigerians. Chukwu said when receiving...
A medical doctor has advised men over 40 years to abstain from diets rich in animal fats so as to reduce the risk of prostate cancer....
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has begun another round of immunisation of 50 million children against poliomyelitis and 13 million against measles. “A...
The Federal Ministry of Health has said that 20 people died of cholera, while 149 cases were reported in an outbreak in Kaduna, Kano, Kogi and...
The incidence of tuberculosis is on the rise in Akwa Ibom says the state’s TB Control Programme Coordinator, Dr Valerie Obot. Obot told newsmen in Ibeno,...
Users of second-hand undergarments may not suffer much health risk if the garments are properly disinfected, washed and ironed, Mike Iroezindu, a medical doctor, has said....
A Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma surgeon at the National Hospital, Abuja, Dr Kingsley Ekwe, says that osteoporosis, the thinning of bone tissue and loss of bone...
Akwa Ibom, Anambra and Gombe States will benefit from the $1. 5million (N225 million malaria grants from Japan, partnering with the World Bank in the fight against malaria. This was...
Stakeholders in Rivers State have commended the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC/Chevron Joint Venture for its social responsibility to the people and communities where it operates...
The Annual and Scientific Conference of the Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN) ended in Abuja on Friday with a call on the media to play up...
