AMR: FG warns of growing threat of drug-resistant infections
…Ministers seek stronger surveillance, responsible antibiotic use By Sola Ogundipe The Federal government has raised the alarm over the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), warning that patients are suffering prolonged illnesses, failing to respond to treatment and dying from infections that antibiotics should ordinarily help control. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, […]
NAFDAC re-enforces surveillance, monitoring activities
With a donation of six Hilux vehicles by Dangote Group the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC said it is improving monitoring and surveillance activities with a view to ensure that only safe products are in circulation in Nigeria.
‘Slimming pills work fast but bring great pains in the end’
African women, particularly Nigerian women had always longed to be big, that is, fat. Mostly for married women, being fat was seen as a sign of affluence on the part of their husbands. The bid to achieve this so-called status then in the country made so many husbands to work so hard such that their wives will be the envy of others.
What to do if you contract gonorrhoea
The world’s most commonly reported Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI), Gonorrhoea, a.k.a the “gentleman’s disease” is gradually becoming untreatable and as incurable as it was in the 1920s, before the first drugs to treat it were discovered.
80 percent of cancer cases curable — Health Minister
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, yesterday said that 80 percent of cancer cases in the country are curable even as he disclosed that the Ministry’s database shows that 50 percent of corpses flown into the country involve cancer-related deaths.
Intensive Care Units in Nigeria not for palliative care — EXPERTS
A person in the ICU needs constant medical attention and support to keep the body functioning
