LACK of adequate control of asthma remains a major hindrance to its management in Nigeria. Even though asthma control can be achieved, data shows that the majority of patients are still uncontrolled despite frequent visits to their doctors or pharmacists.

The West African Health Ministers rose from its 11th Ordinary Meeting with a resolution to Institutionalise Traditional Medicine and for Studies to be conducted into herbal medicines for its integration into conventional medicine.

IKEJA sub-zone of the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), Lagos State has expressed worry over high rate of diabetes, high blood pressure discovered among market women, artisans in Lagos State.

With about 400,000 cases of malaria reported in Lagos public health facilities annually, the State government says the Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) programme would now be repeated every six months even as each household will get two Long-Lasting Insecticide Nets, LLIN.

Chairman, Sickle Cell Foundation of Nigeria, Prof Olu Akinyanju has appealed to the privileged Nigerians and private sector in the country to support the Foundation in ensuring that Nigerians living with sickle cell disorder do not die of the disease.

In the wake of a proposed ban on importation of specified classes of drugs into Nigeria, National President of the Association of Pharmaceutical Importers of Nigeria (APIN), Chief Nnamdi Obi insists that activities of a few criminals who engage in the importation of fake drugs should not override the fact that majority of genuine and affordable drugs in Nigeria come from either China or India.

MALARIA is still the biggest killer of Nigerian children under five years of age as hopes of its eradication remain as elusive as ever, even as year 2010 has been marked as the pivotal year in the campaign to attain the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target in Nigeria and other endemic countries.

ALL is not well with the Nigerian health industry. No one knows this better than the average Nigerian. Indeed the centre no longer holds for the nation’s drug industry and things almost falling apart completely.

As the controversy over headship of the Health Ministry continued last week, the Medical Health Workers Professional Association and Trade Union has urged Acting President Goodluck Jonathan not to yield to the call by the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) to appoint a medical doctor as Minister of Health.

As the controversy over headship of the Health Ministry continued last week, the Medical Health Workers Professional Association and Trade Union has urged Acting President Goodluck Jonathan not to yield to the call by the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) to appoint a medical doctor as Minister of Health.

FEARS of immediate health reprisals from the volcanic explosion in Iceland may be unfounded. The World Health Organisation (WHO) admits that while volcanic ash contains fine particles similar to those emitted from other sources of particulate matter, but maintains that as long as the ash remains in the upper atmosphere there will not likely be an increased risk of health effects.

By Chioma Obinna & Gabriel Olawale Data gathered from the Eko Free Health Mission of the Lagos State government is guiding its guided health policy formulation in the State, even as not less lass than 3,300 residents benefitted from the ongoing health  mission in Surulere area of  Lagos. Speaking during the flag-off of the programme, […]

With over 80 per cent of the country’s national response to HIV and AIDS donor-driven, health experts have expressed fear that the global economic recession may affect the efforts to combat the epidemic in Nigeria.

By James Ezema From  inception of the Family Health International (FHI) through its project, Global HIV&AIDS Initiative (GHAIN), in 2005, a total of 413,186 persons have been counselled and tested for HIV in its Lagos In the zone which comprises Lagos and Ogun States, 31,787 individuals tested HIV positive within the period. Of the 31,787 […]

By  Chioma Obinna Stakeholders in the services of rescuing orphaned and vulnerable children has raised alarm over increasing number of street children in Nigeria, saying  if this alarmist  trend is not reduced, the country may be heading for what it described as “socio- economic disaster”. A  voluntary non-profit association dedicated to the care of street […]