Health

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...

A dentist, Dr Abdulkadir Katagum, on Tuesday advised the public against the use of toothpick, saying it could damage the...

University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) has performed its first Open Heart Surgery on two young girls. This was disclosed...

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has promised to give a facelift to the general hospital in Odi community as...

A study published on Monday by the University of Exeter, London, has shown that sleep not only protects events from...

A team of doctors at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, on Wednesday successfully carried out the first...

President Muhammadu Buhari has donated $1 million to the fight against Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) in the West African region....

A Nigerian medical group and its U.S. counterpart, BIOHEART Inc, U.S., have concluded plans to introduce regenerative medical therapy for...

A Dietician with Wuse General Hospital, Abuja, Mrs Funmi Lawal, has advised hypertensive patients to eat the right foods such...

A United States (U.S.) Fulbright Scholar, Prof. Ngozi Ugochukwu, has advised Federal Government to urgently implement prevention strategies and improve...

Sakari Momoi, certified as world's oldest living male by Guinness World Records, died on Sunday, July 5 in Japan, an...

The Association of Resident Doctors, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) chapter, on Monday commenced an indefinite strike over their working...

Haematologists have advised the Federal Government to initiate policies that would encourage the production of `hydroxyurea’, a drug for the...

Since April 1, 2001 when The Netherlands legalised same-sex marriage, some countries, especially in the Western world, have followed suit....

Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, a Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by...

A widely used farm chemical that is a key ingredient in a new herbicide developed by Dow AgroSciences "possibly" causes...