A Benin City High Court, Edo State, on Tuesday adjourned a N21.7 million fraud case preferred against a former Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Edo State Chapter, Dr. Emmanuel Ighodaro and two others, was on Tuesday adjourned till 21 November, this year. The adjournment followed an application by the defence counsel, Ighodaho Imhamdegbelo […]
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The Nigerian Cardiac Society (NCS) has said that one out of every three adults in Nigeria had high blood pressure. Dr Okechukwu Ogah, the President of the association, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Friday. According to him, the rising prevalence of high blood pressure is […]
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The Federal Government says it has wrapped up plans to stop the use of tobacco in Nigeria, due to it’s increasing negative health effects. This was made known by the Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, while addressing the 8th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP8), to the WHO Framework Convention […]
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Australia could be the first country in the world to effectively eradicate cervical cancer if current vaccination and screening rates are maintained, according to a research in public health journal `the Lancet’ published on Wednesday. “By 2022, cervical cancer rates are predicted to drop to less than six cases per 100,000 people and thus be […]
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Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the UBA Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa Group, have joined together to strengthen health systems and raise awareness of immunisation across Africa, starting in 2018 with Nigeria. “We are delighted to work with the UBA Foundation to help protect children across Nigeria against […]
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, operatives raided a Lagos warehouse and seized controlled drugs, such as Tramadol, valued at N105.6 million. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Friday. She explained that NAFDAC carried out substantive surveillance on nefarious activities […]
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The World Health Organisation, WHO, has said that a quarter of the world’s population are at risk of developing Tuberculosis, TB, during their lifetime. According to WHO, countries are not doing enough to end tuberculosis (TB) in spite of global efforts that averted about 54 million TB deaths since 2000. WHO, at the release of […]
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Sleep is undoubtedly one of physiology’s most mysterious but essential functions. We all need it, yet the exact reasons why it’s so important are still being debated. What we do know is that sleep is important for memory consolidation; it also seems to afford the brain time to clear out toxins that built up throughout […]
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A study published on Thursday in the journal Chem showed that a combination of existing drugs could reduce the size of cancerous tumors much more effectively than current treatments. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Korea University have demonstrated the new approach to blocking cancer-drug resistance that they believe could be applied […]
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A former Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan, Prof. Olufemi Baniro, has charged African countries, including Nigeria, to find solution to their problem of under development, rather than relying on help from international communities. He gave the charge last weekend at the University of Benin, during the innaguration of a Centre of Excellence in Reproductive […]
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