The Nutritional Status of Nigerian Children: What needs to change
Resilience, Doggedness, Creativity, these are some of the adjectives used to describe the Nigerian child over the years. To be ...
There is a new promising drug combination for melanoma
Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) have identified a potential drug combination ...
3 out 4 abortions in Africa are unsafe – WHO
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), about 75% of all abortions in Africa are unsafe. It added that across ...
NAFDAC raises alarm on the use of anti-inflammatory drugs
Late October 2020, Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said it received a report about ...
“Who still thinks about Corona Virus?”
These were my sister's exact words following a sneer and her usual sarcastic laughter. She said this in response to ...
Health is the essential underpinning of productive, resilient and stable economies – WHO DG
The DG of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has described health as the essential underpinning of ...
ExxonMobil Foundation, the NBA and Africare donate masks, sanitizers and handwashing stations to 30 ‘Power Forward’ schools in Abuja
As part of the Power Forward program, ExxonMobil Foundation, the NBA and Africare donated 30,000 masks, 90 new handwashing stations ...
Here’s what FG’s mandatory NHIS for NYSC corps members mean
Nigeria's National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has confirmed it has been directed by Nigeria's president, Muhammadu Buhari, to enlist corps ...
New drug outperforms PreP in preventing HIV among African women
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has announced that it is strongly encouraged by new study results showing that ...
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