Health

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Kogi has directed its members to resume a strike they suspended two weeks ago....

Twenty medical and dental consultants, 18 resident doctors, 100 nurses, 10 laboratory scientists, six pharmacists, five physiotherapists, and 40 ward...

An optometrist, Dr Chika Okereke, has advised people with sickle cell disease to have periodic eye examinations to look for...

Workers of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, have appealed to the Federal Government to intervene in the poor...

Some doctors, under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Osun State, on Thursday staged a peaceful protest...

Ten members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba chapter, were allegedly injured by...

A medical practitioner, Dr Abdulsalam Afolabi, has advised women with high blood pressure to take their drugs regularly to prevent...

Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, announced its decision to stop hiring foreign dentists to provide job opportunities for locals, a report...

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, on Friday, threatened to terminate the appointment of doctors who participate in the ongoing...

U.S. House Republicans on Thursday narrowly approved a sweeping health care bill aimed at fulfilling their campaign promise to overturn...

When Kassim Abba Aliyu, a young man of 30, secured a job with the United Bank of Africa (UBA) Sokoto...

The Kogi State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has directed its members to embark on an indefinite strike...

Dr Samson Sule, a Consultant Paediatrician at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja, Kogi State, says Sickle-Cell Disease (SCD), the...

Former Deputy Provost of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, Imo State, Dr Benneth Maduka, says cocoyam, an endangered...

Save the Children, an international NGO, says about 97 per cent of meningitis victims in Zamfara State are women. The...

An Optometrist, Dr Chika Okereke, has advised people to undertake regular eye examination for early detection of glaucoma, a leading...

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Thursday called for increased global attention for HIV/AIDS funding in Nigeria. In a statement...

The Federal Government says the outbreak of “Type C’ form of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM) in some parts of the...

Prof. Abdullahi Shinkafi, Secretary to the State Government in Zamfara, says  meningitis outbreak has claimed no fewer than 215 lives...

The Federal Ministry of Health has said that 328 deaths associated with Meningitis have been recorded in the country since...