Researchers from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium set up an experiment that searched two million variable locations known as SNPs in the DNA of 101,069 people for variants that appeared to be linked to educational attainment. They...

PROMETHEUS, the mythological figure who stole fire from the gods, was punished for this theft by being bound to a rock. Each day, an eagle swept down and fed on his liver, which then grew back to be eaten again the next day.

Modern scientists...

HAVING missed last Friday’s flyby of asteroid 1998 QE2, I started searching for footage of the event – and ended up with the “Geeks”.

No, I wasn’t captured and caged. So I didn’t have to hold out a bone to deceive a blind witch, like...

IT may soon become an offence punishable by law for any government Ministry, Department, or Agency to go out of the country to purchase satellite images for use in the country.

Chairman Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Prof. Robert...

• Improved shielding technology could keep exposure within acceptable levels

ASTRONAUTS travelling to Mars on any of the current space-flight vehicles would receive a dose of radiation higher than United States National Aeronautic Space Agency...

• Nigeria may ban its advertising, promotion, sponsorship

• National Non-Communicable Diseases Plan ready

• Foundation worries about rise in rheumatic fever, heart disease

As part of activities to mark World No Tobacco Day 2013, the World...

HIGH doses of painkillers used by millions can increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes and heart failure, according to the largest study of its kind. It confirmed a ‘small but significant’ extra risk of dying from heart problems after...

Prof. Olukemi Abiodun Odukoya is a pharmacist with PhD in Pharmacognosy. The professor of Pharmacognosy is the Head of Pharmacognosy Department Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos. She spoke with CHUKWUMA MUANYA on how natural medicine could...

DIRECTOR General, National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Paul Orhii, has raised alarm on new tactics being adopted by drug counterfeiters to bring in fake drugs and unwholesome products in the country.

Part of the...

THE new Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Prof Tony Igwegbe has disclosed that key services of the institution would be relocated to its Okofia permanent site.

Also of priority is having a Specialty...

WORRIED by the dearth of experts and available tools to combat falsified, substandard and counterfeit medicines in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria, the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has launched the Center for...

THE Federal Ministry of Health in Abuja on Monday said that what seemed to be the inability of the federal government to fight the war against tobacco smoking like the rest of the world is weak legislation, which has continued to incapacitate the...