Health

110 persons have been confirmed dead since the outbreak of the deadly Lassa fever in Nigeria this year. This is according to the latest report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. “Since the onset of the 2018 outbreak,…

More than 500 Canadian doctors, as well as over 150 medical students, have signed a public letter protesting the recent government’ policy to increase their pay. “We, Quebec doctors who believe in a strong public…

People with stage III colon cancer who regularly eat nuts are at significantly lower risk of cancer recurrence and mortality than those who don’t, according to a new, large study led by researchers at Yale Cancer Center. The findings…

• 18, 000 Need Dialysis Yearly • Only 160 Nephrologists, Less Than One Per 1m Population • About N400, 000 Needed For Dialysis Monthly This year’s World Kidney Day will present a moment for sober reflection for the country…

The Cross River State government began the vaccination of babies against measles troubling the lives of babies between the ages of 9 to 59 months and called on both mothers and caregivers to make visitation with their babies to the nearest…

A neurosurgeon has been suspended for opening up the head of the wrong patient in one of the worst cases of medical malpractice to become public at Kenyatta National Hospital. Two men had been wheeled into KNH unconscious…

Lightening the skin of babies still in the womb? 'hmmm'  African people desperate enough to use skin-lightening creams and tablets for a fairer skin tone when they're adults is one thing – albeit one problematic thing – but trying to…

Nigeria is suffering its worst outbreak of Lassa fever, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, as local health officials said 72 people had died since the start of this year. Nigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak has reached…

A transgender woman in the the first recorded case of its kind, can reportedly breastfeed a child. After the 30 year old who was born male, informed doctors in New York that she wanted to breast-feed her pregnant partner’s baby, they…

A two-hour operation by a team of seven surgeons, doctors and other medical personnel, led by one Dr. Kigbu, resulted in a successful separation of conjoined twins on Monday, at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital,…

India is investigating claims an unlicensed doctor infected at least 46 people with HIV by re-using syringes, the latest case to expose the paucity of healthcare in the country of 1.25 billion. Police in Uttar Pradesh…

Twenty-one people have died from Lassa fever in Nigeria this month, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said on Wednesday, in the latest outbreak in Africa’s most populous nation. “Since the beginning of 2018, 80 cases have been…

Fears of a global pandemic are mounting as experts have warned there will be ‘no way to stop’ a killer disease from claiming millions of lives. The concerns, raised at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, come exactly 100 years…

It was all about keeping fit this morning in Abia state as the State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, his Deputy, Ude Oko Chukwu, commissioners and others rode bicycles along the streets of Umuahia to stay healthy this morning. It was a pleasant…

Sampson Nwabueze is a happy brother and uncle at the moment. According to him, his sister gave birth to a set of twins after 15years of marriage. The children, a boy and girl were born on 2, December 2017. He took to his Facebook Thursday,…