REGULAR consumption of coffee is associated with a reduced risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), an autoimmune liver disease, Mayo Clinic research shows.

The findings were being presented at the Digestive Disease Week 2013 conference in...

IMAGES from the three Nigerian satellites - NigeriaSat-1, NigeriaSat-X, and NigeriaSat-2- released recently by the National Space Research Development Agency (NASRDA) on the extent of damage caused by Military intervention at Baga, Borno State...

A SOMEWHAT rare planetary configuration is taking shape in the western sky, as Venus, Jupiter and Mercury move into close visual proximity.

There’ll be no alignment, as such. But they are all either entering or emerging from conjunction (to be...

• Nigerian engineers eye medal at 2014 Eco Marathon in Qatar

THE world is waiting for the next best environment-friendly and most fuel-efficient car as over 3000 engineering students and their professors from all over the globe are gathered in...

RECENT studies that examine links between sodium consumption and health outcomes support recommendations to lower sodium intake from the very high levels some Americans consume now, but evidence from these studies does not support reduction in...

THE prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is top on the agenda of the Sixty-sixth session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), which begins in Geneva from May 20 to 28, 2013.

A meeting of delegates from the WHO African Region...

LAGOS State government recently convened a state health council meeting to chart path to universal access in healthcare in the state.

The meeting, of all stakeholders in the state health sector, was to provide quality service delivery for about...

ONE million children who missed out on the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine around a decade ago are to be targeted in a national campaign to raise the level of protection against measles.

Alarmed by the Swansea outbreak, where almost 900...

DRINKING coffee every day can cut a man’s risk of prostate cancer by almost 20 per cent - but only if he gulps down six cups a day.

New research shows heavy coffee drinkers are less likely to develop a tumour than those who drink none at all...

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...

THEFederal Government Tuesday announced additional N4.5 billion to boost polio eradication in the country.

The Ministry of Health stressed that the money has been approved by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to strengthen Nigeria’s Routine...

THE State of the world’s mothers’ 2013 report has ranked Nigeria among worst countries to be a mother and a child in the world.

Due to high number of maternal and infant deaths in the country, Nigeria ranks 169 out of 176 in the Mothers’...