IF medicine must be safe and affordable in the country, the Federal Government must ensure conducive-environment for local manufacturers, community pharmacists have said.

And to start with, the government must implement its policy at reducing...

AFTER seven days of intense discussions, the 66th World Health Assembly (WHA) concluded with agreement on a range of new public health measures and recommendations aimed at securing greater health benefits for all people, everywhere.

In all, 24...

Shell invests N208 billion on research in 2012

AS part of efforts to address increasing demand for energy and the attendant pressure on the climate due to high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels like coal, scientists have made...

IN case I’ve gotten you tensed up, with this technical jargon, NASA’s Dr. Tony Phillips has a suggestion to relieve your frayed nerves. Go out on these dates, he advises, and face the twilight horizon:

May 24th, when Mercury’s approach to...

MEDICAL devices have been shown to be indispensable tools for prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation in health care delivery.

Scientists and medical experts including the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) say eHealth solutions -...

THE notoriously crafty parasite that causes malaria may have yet another trick up its sleeve scientists have learned: It makes mosquitoes that carry it more attracted to human body odor, a new study suggests.

Compared with non-infected...

•Alerts on rise in resistance to TB, malaria, antibiotic drugs

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised alarm over the threat to human existence of two new viruses that are mutating at frightening levels: human infections with a novel...

A STRATEGY to enhance service delivery, known as ‘two-way referral system’ is yielding dividends in safe delivery in some private and public healthcare facilities in Lagos.

The referral system, a two-way relationship between a primary –...

THE new board Chairman of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Umuahia, Abia state, Dr. Wakil Chibok, has called for the upgrading of the centre to a teaching hospital.

Chibok made the call at the centre recently, when he led members of the board on...

WORRIED by the downward trend of residency training in the country, resident doctors will at their 2013 Ordinary General Meeting (OGM), discuss the status of specialist training in Nigeria, with a view to repositioning the key aspect of capacity...

• Plans rehab homes, community-based mental care centres

NIGERIA is implementing a number of innovative initiatives to further fast track the elimination of polio and designing concrete measures to ensure the safety of all health personnel...

TREATMENT for alcohol use disorders works best if the patient actively understands and incorporates the interventions provided in the clinic.

Multiple factors can influence both the type and degree of neurocognitive abnormalities found during...