Category: Health
Farmfresh receives Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) endorsement
Farmfresh range of products, which include Pasteurized full cream milk; Stirred yoghurt in various flavours; and Drinking yoghurt in various flavours produced by...
Three nurses arrested for harvesting newborns’ organs
The Delta State Police Command has arrested three nurses at a private hospital in Asaba, the state capital. The hospital had confirmed dead a newborn...
Over 116m people living with mental health conditions in Africa – WHO
..Says increasing rate of drug abuse among teens contributes to rising suicide cases The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that more than 116...
NAFDAC alerts : Substandard paediatric cough syrups already killed 66 children
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted Nigerians to substandard cough syrups circulating in The Gambia,...
WHO lists four Cough syrups dangerous for children
By Babatunde Michael The World Health Organisation,WHO,has listed four Cough syrups it consider dangerous for kids. AbdulRazaq flags off fresh initiative...
Nigerian Academy of Medicine presents 2022 annual lecture
Principal officers of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine (NAMed) at the 2022 Annual Lecture and Indiction Ceremony of the Academy in Abuja on To Thursday, September 29,...
Ebola death surges again in Uganda, claims nine
The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to nine, the health ministry said Friday, two weeks after the authorities announced an epidemic...
Nurse fined N100,00 for piercing newborn baby’s eyes
A nurse at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH), Sokoto, Mrs. Folade Adeshina, has been sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment with an option of a...
Like ASUU, pharmacists wants wage increase
Pharmacists across the country may head the way of Academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU as they have also solicited an increase in their wages. Finally, ASUU...
Answering challenges posed by antimicrobial resistance
By Pascale Ondoa and Yewande Alimi Staphylococcus aureus is the source of a skin infection that can turn deadly if drug resistant. Estimates regarding the...
