Health

Nigeria has what it takes to diversify her economy through earnings from traditional and herbal medicines, Prof. Maurice Iwu, Chairman,...

Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Friday signed the Primary Healthcare Development Agency (amendment) Bill 2015 into law, with...

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has expressed worries over the lack of modern and well-equipped hospitals in the South...

Japanese government has revealed that the number of centenarians in Japan exceeded 60,000 in 2015, hitting a record high for...

The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), on Tuesday, said it would establish bone marrow transplant centres in teaching hospitals in...

A medical practitioner in Abuja, Dr Felix Madu, has said that chest pain can be a symptom of a life...

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) on Monday decried Nigerians' low interest to know their health status and called for continuous...

People Living with Sickle Cell in the South-East have called for free medical treatment for its members across the country....

Ogun State Police Command has beefed up security at Amazing Grace Hospital, Ijebu-Ode, following the rape of some patients and...

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja reaffirmed his determination to ensure that Nigeria is finally certified polio-free by 2017 and...

Dr Fatima Atiku, daughter of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and newly appointed Adamawa State Commissioner for Health has forfeited...

A dietician with Wuse Hospital, Abuja, Mrs Funmi Lawal, has advised people with hypertension to eat more of food with...

Veteran comedian, Senior Apostle Moses Olaiya Adejumo (Baba Sala), has been discharged from the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo...

Researchers on Friday revealed that working 55 hours or more per week, might be associated with greater risk of stroke...

South Africa's Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu, has been put on a new course of antibiotic treatment that is expected to...

A general physician, Dr Abiodun Abraham, on Tuesday attributed the prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) among children to unhealthy...

Dikko Inde Abdullahi, Comptroller-General (CG) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Tuesday, bowed out of service in style as...

A specialist in internal medicine, Dr Yiliji Kumtap, has said that renal diseases and failures, prominent in hypertensive and diabetic...

A Consultant Cardiologist, Dr Obi Emerole, on Wednesday blamed urbanisation and change in lifestyle for the increasing incidence of cardiovascular...

Anti-apartheid cleric and veteran South African leader, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was released from hospital on Tuesday after being re-admitted for...