• Petition Lagos Assembly

WORKERS at the Primary Health Care Department of the Lagos State Local Government Services have petition the state House of Assembly over alleged faulty implementation of health reform law and “overbearing...

•Trains health workers, counsellors

RESPITE may have come the way of rape victims and all forms of sexual assaults in Nigeria, as a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) is set to take off at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital...

• Plan acquisition of mobile cancer treatment centre

• Comprehensive specialised medical centre to gulp $30m

• Nigeria needs 37 or more centres

DISTHRAUGHTED by the soaring numbers of victims to one of the world’s deadliest infectious...

EKITI State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, was among several Nigerians who scored Nigeria’s health indices low in a gathering of health experts at the 8th memorial lecture of   Nigeria’s former Minister of Health, late Prof. Olikoye Ransome...

HEART damage from chemotherapy may be due to leaky pipes. Sunitinib, a cancer drug known to harm heart tissue, wipes out cells that seal blood vessels, Vishnu Chintalgattu of the biotech company Amgen and colleagues report May 29 in Science...

*As FrieslandCampina commemorates day

As countries commemorate the World Milk Day (WMD) 2013, researchers have advised women who are pregnant or planning to have children to consume the right amount of iodine, which is found in milk, or risk...

IT has been shown that giving blood provides an essential lifeline to those in need, but a growing body of research demonstrates that it could have health benefits for the donor too.

Findings have shown that donating blood reduces the risk of...

•UK university wins Europe Shell Eco Marathon as Nigerian team prepares for African/Middle East version in Qatar

NIGERIAN engineers have promised to deliver a near 100 per cent environment-friendly, fuel-efficient car before the first...

AMONG the books in my library, is a 400-plus page text from a secondary school in California, a state in the United States (U.S.). It’s a hard-backed, vividly illustrated volume, with normally spaced lines and the smallest type-size the law will...

AS part of activities to mark Nigeria’s Democracy Day, doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in their appraisal of the health sector since 1999 when civil rule returned, has said that the sector witnessed some...

WORRIED by the dwindling fortunes of the Nigerian Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), pharmacists under the umbrella of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have tasked President Goodluck Jonathan on the...

DESPITE its dream of securing universal coverage and access to adequate and affordable healthcare in order to improve the health status of Nigerians, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is yet to enjoy good support from state governments...