According to studies conducted in the United Kingdom, honey and over the counter drugs should be used first for the treatment of a cough because they have been found to be more effective than antibiotics. […]
In Nigeria, a mother draws her last breath as her baby, bloodied and warm-blooded, draws its first, her breast milk congealing in the arctic rigors of death. In South Sudan, amidst the internecine intrigues of […]
WE USED to leave it up to God. Someone fell seriously ill, we lit candles and prayed for him not to die. Somebody was dying, we lit candles and prayed for him to die painlessly. […]
The esoteric rhythm of the ‘agidigbo’ drum dribbles from the bowel of the night, speaking in eerie tongues as owls, frogs, bats, crickets and kindred creatures lift their voices in praise of nature. A long […]
A Professor of Pharmacognosy at Obafemi Awolowo University, Joseph Aladesanmi, who invented a yet to be clinically tested anti-cancer drug, has decried poor funding of research in Nigeria. About five months ago, Mr Aladesanmi received […]
The United Nations Children Education Fund on Wednesday said that 62 per cent of Nigerian children were born outside health facilities by traditional birth attendants between 2008 and 2013. The agency noted that while 40 […]
A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has revealed that antimalarial and antibiotics are medicines most commonly sold in substandard or falsified conditions in developing countries. The researchers, who analyzed […]
Good morning Mr Jimi, My name is Chuks and I would like to say I do appreciate all you are doing as I do listen to you on radio. I would like to bring to […]
(CNN)An ongoing Ebola outbreak is spreading across the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, and it has health officials gravely concerned due to conflict in the area along with other factors. The country’s Ministry […]
Monsanto suffered a major blow with a jury ruling that the company was liable for a terminally ill man’s cancer, awarding him $289m in damages. Dewayne Johnson, a 46-year-old former groundskeeper, won a huge victory […]
People living in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, are inhabiting the third worst city for humans to live in the world. This is according to the newly released ranking of the 2018 Global Liveability Index released […]
Reseachers said on Friday that heavy drinking or long-term abstinence could both contribute to increased risk of developing dementia. Researchers from French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and UCL investigated the association […]
Cholesterol, a fatty substance made by the liver and distributed throughout the body, is essential for the body to function properly. Cholesterol allows the body to make vitamin D and hormones, and makes up bile […]
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Bauchi State has accredited eight new facilities to provide primary and secondary healthcare. This brought the number of NHIS-accredited facilities in the state to 53 from 49 as at […]
A single course of antibiotics early in childhood may increase risk for Type 1 diabetes. This is the finding of a study in mice led by researchers from New York University (NYU) Medical School and […]
The Federal Government has recalled over two million bottles of codeine-containing cough syrup after a recent audit trial of the substance by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). Minister of […]
The Federal Ministry of Health has recalled 2.4 million bottles of cough syrup containing codeine after a recent audit of the substance carried out by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). […]
The late Dr. Rosemary Chukwudebe, 42, was the Head of the Internal Medicine Department at the Kogi State Specialist Hospital (KSSH) in Lokoja. She was a graduate of the University of Benin, a caring wife […]
Malaria is a life-threatening mosquito-borne blood disease caused by a plasmodium parasite. It is transmitted to humans through the bite of the female Anopheles mosquitoes, called malaria vectors and once an infected mosquito bites humans, […]
Deaths due to liver diseases are on the rise in the United States and researchers have blamed it on the increasing consumption of alcohol. A research led by the University of Michigan, found that deaths […]
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