ORAL-B, a brand of Procter & Gamble Nigeria is partnering with the Nigerian Dental Association (NDA) to bring into focus the role of dentists in disaster management and the integration of the dental profession into the scope of protecting human...

• 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...

A LARGE, multi-centre study led by Johns Hopkins University, United States, researchers has found a significant link between lifestyle factors and heart health, adding even more evidence in support of regular exercise, eating a Mediterranean-style...

Nigerians have gone herbal. Most products from toothpastes, bathing soap to beverage drinks and even medicines to boost libido have herbal versions. They are generally believed to be safe and are taken without caution. Indeed, Nigerians have...

A CASUAL window-shopping in a bookshop at Dockland, in the United Kingdom sometime in 2011 by Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the comical, unassuming governor of Osun state, has translated into some tremendously good fortune for the state’s public...

Borno spends N227m on infrastructure

GOVERNORIbrahim Gaidam of Yobe state has declared a state of emergency in the state’s education sector. Citing poor management of secondary schools and other levels of the education sector in the state...

A HUMAN rights advocate, Dr. Otive Igbuzor, has said that about 10 million Nigerian children of school age are out of school. This trend, he said, must be addressed for Nigeria to attain its full potential in terms of development.He also canvassed...

THE Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIBN) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with three universities and three polytechnics that would enable their respective undergraduate and graduate students sit for particular levels of the...