Indian registered pharmaceutical company in Nigeria, Ranbaxy Laboratories, has promised to kick out malaria in Nigeria with its first ever New Chemical Entity (NCE), which according to the CEO and Managing Director of the company, Mr. Arun Sawhney, would address the existing challenges of resistance to available drugs, price fluctuations, supply constraints and high pill burden“.

Almost 15 years after Dr. Jeremiah Abalaka’s claims of developing curative and preventative vaccines for HIV/AIDS were rejected, the ruling by a Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi, Benue State, that the ban on the vaccine was illegal and inconsequential, has reopened a new wave of commentary on the controversy.

THE end of the road appears to have come for producers of fake, substandard and unregistered producers of packaged water sachets popularly known as “pure water” as the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control, NAFDAC, in collaboration with Emani Global Network, EGNL, is carrying out on- the- spot analysis of packaged water in Rivers state.

TWELVE new dedicated diabetes and hypertension clinics are in the pipeline for 2015, in selected states of the Federation as part of efforts to support patients with the disorders to enable them better manage and control the burden of the two ailments.

With 10 Nigerians dying of cancer every hour, Nigerian researchers are seeking the inclusion of cancer on the Federal government priority list with a view to tackling the recent epidemic of the disease in the country.