Dr Tolu Arowolo on Monday called for aggressive advocacy to persuade government to support and enunciate policies that will enhance malaria control. Arowolo, the National Professional...
Yobe Deputy Governor Abubabkar Ali has said that the health reform programmes of the state government have improved primary healthcare delivery and reduced maternal and child...
Patients with terminal ailments can live normal lives if their pain is properly managed, says Dr Olaitan Soyanwo, of the Centre for Palliative Care, University College...
The Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria (IHVN), says it will establish more tuberculosis laboratories to eradicate the disease in Nigeria. Dr Patrick Dakum, the Chief Executive...
A consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Garki Hospital, Dr Garba Omale says nature and not just breast feeding determines drooping breasts. “Many wrongly informed women do...
No fewer than 200 newly recruited health workers in Bauchi state on yesterday staged violent protest over non-payment of their salaries for 30 months. The protesters...
The skin should be well ventilated this hot season to avoid prickly heat rashes, a dermatologist, Dr Ovico Ugbedeojo, has advised. “It is important to ventilate...
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...
