Nearly 150m Africans live with mental health conditions — WHO
Agency urges greater funding, community-based care By Chidinma Chukwu, Abuja Nearly 150 million people across Africa are living with mental health, neurological or substance use conditions, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said, calling for greater investment in mental healthcare across the continent. The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Mohamed Janabi, disclosed this in […]
In Lagos, 47,402 embrace family planning in 2 years — NURHI
Lagosians have developed a keen aptitude for family planning. Hardly does one come across a couple in the State today that is not utilising one form of contraception or the other.
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.
