The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has commenced the nationwide provision of free Caesarean Sections (CS) in over 100 hospitals...
The World Health Organization says it will send leprosy drugs to Nigeria this weekend after resolving testing hold-ups that led to a year-long delay in thousands...
A Consultant Dermatologist, Dr Folakemi Cole-Adeife, says frequent use of sponge to bathe can strip the skin of natural oils and create micro-tears or micro-trauma in...
The Situation Analysis (SitAn) of Children in Nigeria Report has identified some of the reasons why 53.9 per cent of children in the country are multi-dimensionally...
The Borno Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Prof. Baba Mallam, has blamed the rate at which Nigerian women die during child birth on indecision by...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)on Wednesday in Ibadan destroyed unwholesome products worth about N11 billion. The destruction of the unwholesome,...
The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has urged health authorities to activate heightened alert systems in response to the newly detected XEC COVID-19 variant...
The Oyo State Rapid Response Team (RRT) has confirmed four deaths suspected to be linked to Lassa fever outbreak in Saki West Local Government Area. Oyo...
The National Agency For the Control of Aids (NACA) says no fewer than 15,000 AIDS-related deaths occur each year in Nigeria. The Director-General, NACA, Mrs Temitope...
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria has an estimated two million zero-dose children at risk of many diseases, including polio. Zero-dose children are those children...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) recorded a rise in Lassa fever cases in week 39 of 2024, with Ondo and Edo states...
Medical experts at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) have clarified that chest and abdominal pain are not definitive indicators of ulcers. They made...