Ebola: NCDC places Nigeria on high alert
ABUJA — The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has placed Nigeria on high alert following an update on the ongoing Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The NCDC Director-General, Jide Idris, disclosed this in a health advisory, saying preparatory activities were ongoing to strengthen the […]
Beware of drugs, Community Pharmacists caution Nigerians
On this year’s World Pharmacy Day, Community pharmacists have warned on wrong usage of drugs by Nigerians, noting that every drug is a potential poison if not properly used.
Embrace heart friendly lifestyle, Nigerians tasked
IGERIANS have been urged to embrace healthy habits and healthy lifestyle, as a critical factor in maintaining a healthy heart.
3 Americans win 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine
THE Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 has been jointly awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute, to American scientists – Jeffrey Hall of the University of Maine, Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University in Massachusetts and Michael Young of Rockefeller University in New York.
Indigenous funding, key to effective health, economic development
The Civil Society Platform on Health (CSPH) has called on the Federal Government to move healthcare to a first line charge and concentrate on indigenous funding as vaccine-preventable disease continue to claim many lives.
HIV: FG providing ARV treatment for additional 50,000 persons annually
The Federal government has committed to provide antiretroviral drugs to additional 50,000 Nigerians living with HIV each year.
