Health

This year’s World AIDS Day on December 1 was a time to tell the country’s three tiers of government a few home truths. At an event to mark the occasion in Abuja, the National Agency […]

Lagos—As Nigeria today joins the rest of the world to mark 2015 World AIDS Day, the World Health Organisation, WHO, yesterday announced that the Millennium Development Goal that called for halting and reversing the spread […]

A survey by United States (US) based Guttmacher Institute and Ipas Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that focuses on female reproductive rights, showed that, in spite of Nigeria’s highly restrictive abortion law, the estimated abortion rate […]

It’s news that surely surprises no one: smoking high-strength cannabis maydamage your brain. By scanning the brains of people who regularly smoked skunk-like cannabis, researchers at King’s College London observed subtle differences in the white […]

Despite having an increasing number of citizens suffering from cancer, Nigeria only has seven radiotherapy machines, five of which are currently faulty, health officials have said. Following complains by cancer patients across the country in […]

THE United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has disclosed that over 50million Nigerians do not have access to toilets hence resort to open defecation. The world body also revealed that Nigeria ranks among the five countries […]

With one third of adults and two thirds of adolescents insufficiently active, the World Health Organisatian, WHO, has warned of the consequences of growing incidences of diabetes, saying, it is now a global epidemic that […]

She had become thoroughly exhausted by the time her mother and her driver helped her out of the rear seat of the black sport utility vehicle that morning. With pockets of pain all over her […]

Added sugar is the single worst ingredient in the modern diet. It can have harmful effects on metabolism and contribute to all sorts of diseases. The evidence is mounting that sugar, not fat, may be […]

MEN are more prone to health mistakes than women, yet are more likely than women to ignore a medical problem. Men have higher levels of heart-harming LDL cholesterol. They’re also more likely to have high […]

THE European Union (EU) has spent N4 billion on the country’s immunisation programme for this year, it was learnt yesterday. The support came under the EU Support to Immunisation Governance in Nigeria (EU-SIGN). Training, Contracting […]

Women who drink more than a glass of wine or beer a day have long been known to increase their risk of developing breast cancer. But new research suggests the risk is far greater than […]

All journalism is autobiography, at least to the extent that, consciously or unconsciously, the writer always reveals something of himself or herself.  Just how much to reveal, what to put out and what to omit, […]

•‘States not committing funds to polio eradication’ THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has formally removed Nigeria from the list of polio-endemic countries, meaning the African continent is free of the crippling disease. Nigeria has reported […]

A professor of psychiatry, Joseph Adeyemi, has said that no fewer than 800,000 people commit suicide yearly due to depression, yet policies on mental challenges remain archaic. Professor Adeyemi, who spoke in Lagos at the presentation […]

About 300 students of the Federal Government Girls’ College in Efon Alaaye, Ekiti State, have been infected with an outbreak of a disease suspected to be cholera. Although some of the students affected were treated […]

For many of us who are still not sure of what processed foods are, here is a quick definition. The term ‘processed food’ applies to any food that has been altered from its natural state […]

IN Nigeria and environs, High Blood Pressure, a.k.a. Hypertension, is increasingly becoming a problem. It puts people at risk of heart disease, kidney disease and stroke. Already a massive hidden killer, High Blood Pressure is […]

Scientists might have accidentally made a huge step forward in the search for a cure for cancer — discovering unexpectedly that a malaria protein could be an effective weapon against the disease, the Independent of […]

IN A dusty yard in Magagasi, a small village in eastern Swaziland, a man in surgical gloves draws Gugu Dlamini’s blood for the third time this year. The health worker lays a drop of it […]