“Extreme Heat Poses Potential Threat To Pregnancy, Birth Safety” — UN Climate Change Official
United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell warns that extreme heat is emerging as a potentially fatal threat to pregnant women, newborns, and...
Health Crisis In Delta As Allied Health Workers Strike Escalates
ASABA – Health services in public hospitals across Delta State have come under pressure as the ongoing strike by allied health professionals escalated, with...
FG Targets 172 LGAs With Maternal Health Incentives
The Federal Government on Monday launched a new incentive programme targeting pregnant women in 172 Local Government Areas, LGAs, across 33 states as part...
Heartbeat By Sound: Scientists Develop Non-Invasive Pacemaker
What if a person who needs a pacemaker no longer had to undergo surgery to have one implanted? Imagine having no wires threaded into the...
Diphtheria: No Outbreak In Lagos – Abayomi
The Lagos state Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi on Wednesday raised its disease surveillance and preparedness against diphtheria, warning residents not to panic...
NAFDAC Faults Chinese Dealers Behind Fake Drugs
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has linked Chinese counterfeiters now living in Nigeria to the proliferation of fake goods,...
Consumers Raises Alarm Over Surge Of Fake Goods, Drugs Sales
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria have come under pressure over the proliferation of...
Fibroid Without The Knife: How Sound Waves Are Giving Women A New Treatment Option
FOR generations, the word “fibroid” has carried a familiar fear for Nigerian women: heavy bleeding, severe pain, a swollen abdomen, infertility and, often, the...
Lassa Fever Cases Rise To 1,035, Deaths Hit 252 – NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported 14 new confirmed lassa fever cases in week 33, bringing cumulative infections to...
“It Keeps Me Awake At Night To See Young People Struck By Cancer, Brain Tumour, Stroke, Kidney Disease” — Gov. Otti | VIDEO
Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, has expressed concern over the increasing incidence of kidney disease, cancer, brain tumours, stroke and other forms of...
