Perhaps more than any other disease, malaria stays in the developing world and continues to spread because of poverty. It keeps on infecting and weakening people because of poor sanitation, poor health practices, poor environmental […]
Zimbabwe has legalised marijuana for medical and scientific use, thereby becoming the second African country to legalize marijuana after Lesotho. The country’s Minister of Health health in a government notice said that individuals and businesses […]
The ongoing strike by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) is a week old and has crippled healthcare delivery in many parts of the nation. However, the full weight of its impact is yet to be felt, […]
Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has said that the country is on the verge of tackling the Lassa fever outbreak. The Minister spoke Tuesday at a meeting on Lassa fever which held inside the […]
Stakeholders in the health sector have expressed alarm at the rate Nigerian physicians are trooping abroad in search of greener pastures. In separate interviews with The Guardian, they shed light on the urgency of the […]
The federal government says it will invoke the ‘no work no pay rule’ rule if the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) persist in their strike, which has crippled health care delivery in parts of the […]
The Nigerian government is in a dilemma as medical doctors on Tuesday warned it against acceding to some demands over which other workers in the health sector have called a strike. The doctors who specifically […]
*Temperature affects insecticide efficacy against malaria vectors A bit of mosquito saliva might one day be just what the doctor ordered to stop blood clot. That is because scientists have found a new way to […]
The President of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), Mr Josiah Biobelemoye, said on Monday that the the union would commence an indefinite nationwide strike by midnight on Tuesday. Biobelemoye said this when he led […]
The Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, has announced an indefinite strike that, it says, will paralyse activities in all health institutions across the country. “All federal government health institutions in Nigeria including federal medical centres, […]
US experts have found a solid reason for legalising medical marijuana, saying it can help Americans who are struggling with opioid addiction and possibly reduce opioid-related mortality. According to a study in the journal JAMA […]
The World Health Organisation has unveiled new guidance on the role tobacco product regulation can play to reduce tobacco demand, save lives and raise revenues for health services to treat tobacco-related disease, in the context […]
Sani Aliyu is the Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA). In this exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Ayodamola Owoseye and Nike Adebowale, he speaks on why the largest survey of people living […]
A Discovery series released Thursday produced by Steve Rivo, Invisible Killers, explores in one episode how smallpox—eradicated in 1980—could make a surprising, deadly comeback. That might seem inherently at odds with what we think about […]
Terminator star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has undergone emergency open-heart surgery, according to US reports. The 70-year-old underwent the medical procedure on Thursday, according to TMZ. Schwarzenegger was scheduled to have a catheter valve replacement and developed […]
A family physician at the National Hospital, Abuja, Dr. Zayad Ahmed, has advised people to avoid lying down immediately after a meal as such practice could be responsible for common abdominal pains. He told the […]
Many Nigerians are still not getting their children fully immunized. They treat vaccinations with kid gloves in spite of serious challenges some diseases pose to child survival and endemic nature of such diseases in the […]
Nearly 800 doctors and medical residents in the Canadian province of Quebec have signed a letter protesting against plans to raise their pay, arguing that the funds would be better spent on other areas of […]
A neurosurgeon at Kenya’s largest hospital has been suspended after performing brain surgery on the wrong patient. The scandal, which prompted an outpouring of horror on social media, is the latest drama to hit the […]
A Respiratory Physician, Dr Cafetan Onyedum, has advised smokers against e-cigarettes, saying although they were perceived as safer, the way they affected the body suggested otherwise. Onyedum noted, in an interview with our correspondent, that […]
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