Category: Health
People living with Sickle Cell need empathy, not sympathy – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reiterated the need for more collaborative efforts to foster better education and awareness about sickle cell disease just...
NAFDAC wages war against substandard, falsified drugs
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it will reduce substandard and falsified medicines to five per cent prevalence by 2025...
Over 14m Nigerians on drugs- World drug report
The World Drug Report of 2019 has put drug use prevalence in Nigeria at 14.4 percent of the population, representing 14.4 million Nigerians aged 15 to 64 years....
Deafness, a condition not sickness –Deaf Group
Oloruntimilehin Ayomide The Nigeria National Association of the Deaf (NNAD) on Tuesday has said that deafness is a condition not a sickness. The disability group...
How wrong diagnosis by doctors often led to deaths or health implications
Doctors at work in Idah General Hospital, Kogi State: Misdiagnosis of ailments now a major crisis in Nigeria His patient lost a kidney and died but Dr Yakubu Koji was...
100 patients visit cancer treatment centre, LUTH daily, GMD
Prof. Chris Bode, Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, says no fewer than 100 patients are being treated daily at the...
Between breast cancer and oral hygiene
Comedy is now a multi-billion naira industry in Nigeria. A new couple could pay a comedian one million naira to perform at their wedding, but argue furiously...
World Polio Day: Kwara disinfects rivers other places to stem disease
The Kwara State Government on Thursday disinfected major rivers and adjoining areas in the Ilorin metropolis after health officials recently discovered a polio virus...
Be wary of medical negligence – Ogun CJ
Legal practitioners in Ogun State have been charged to uplift the standard of legal practice and equip their knowledge in aspects of law related to...
