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.