“But as we said, we want to repeat again, such transmission is very rare and only happens due to very close contact between people.”

THE Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, Lagos State Branch, yesterday, warned over what it described as a “dangerous depletion” of pharmacists in the Lagos State Ministry of Health, cautioning that the situation is already weakening drug regulation and opening the door to statutory breaches in the state’s healthcare system.

In a move to overhaul healthcare delivery at the grassroots, the Lagos State Government has unveiled a 10-year Primary Healthcare, PHC, Financing Plan, (2026–2036), targeting expansion of functional health centres, wider insurance coverage and improved outcomes across the state.

Spain on Tuesday said it would not decide where a cruise ship with hantavirus cases would dock until epidemiological data

By Chioma Obinna A Professor of Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, United States, Prof. Juliette Iwelunmor, has identified poor access to preventive healthcare services and persistent stigma as major barriers frustrating efforts to end HIV/AIDS transmission among young people in Africa. Iwelunmor spoke at the 2026 INSPIRE Designathon organised […]

By Chioma Obinna The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, Lagos State Branch, has issued a strong warning over what it described as a “dangerous depletion” of pharmacists in the Lagos State Ministry of Health, cautioning that the situation is already weakening drug regulation and opening the door to statutory breaches in the state’s healthcare system. […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is no cause for panic following a suspected outbreak of rodent-borne hantavirus aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, stressing that the risk to the general public remains low.

Hantavirus, the disease which has caused a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship in the southern Atlantic, circulates in rodents and can be deadly when transmitted to humans.

It was a testimony-laden Saturday as the first anniversary celebration of The Prostate Clinic, TPC, turned into a sobering national health warning, with survivors, including retired Major General Enenche John Enenche, and others recounting their encounters with prostate cancer and the life-saving interventions that followed.

By Chioma Obinna The Federal Government has intensified efforts to strengthen Nigeria’s pharmaceutical industry, providing technical support to indigenous manufacturers as part of moves to position them for World Health Organisation, WHO, prequalification and improve national medicine security. The initiative, anchored by the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development, NIPRD, in collaboration with the […]

The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Adekunle Salako, has declared that no woman should die of cervical cancer, describing the disease as both preventable and treatable.

As the world marks World Immunisation Week 2026, fresh concerns have been raised over Nigeria’s growing number of unimmunised children, calling for urgent and coordinated action to close the gap.

As the world marks the 2026 World Malaria Day, Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries Limited has declared that scaling local drug production and investing in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, APIs, are critical to ending malaria in Nigeria, which still bears the heaviest global burden of the disease.

Across markets in Nigeria, shoppers’ decisions are made in seconds. A mother reaching for a packet of noodles, a bottle of cooking oil, and a loaf of bread, does not check the sodium levels, trans fats or sugar content.

•Trains 72 journalists, rolls out ‘EasyPay’ to ease enrolment By Sola Ogundipe, Chioma Obinna & Olasukanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government on Monday said it has intensified enforcement of its compulsory health insurance scheme, ILERA EKO, shifting focus to healthcare providers and service delivery even as it expands access through new payment options and aggressive […]