Health

You don’t have to be a nutritionist to know that your favourite red velvet cake or cinnamon glazed doughnut is packed with sugar. It is also common knowledge that most of the soft drinks we consume daily are made with a lot of sugar. In fact, a single bottle of soft drink has 12 teaspoons of sugar, which is twice the recommended daily limit of sugar intake which is 6 teaspoons; and that is just one bottle! Many Nigerians have at least an average of 2 to 3 bottles a day.

Pax Herbals, a Nigerian leading herbal brand has called on health regulatory agencies to establish a more friendly product policy to help regulate herbal products in the country

If nothing is done urgently to reverse the 350 per cent hike in product registration fees by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), there would be drug scarcity in Nigeria occasioned by 100 per cent increase ...

Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Chinedum Orji, has urged for full enforcement of the Abia State Identification Of Blood Group and Genotype Law’ captioned “Abia State Law No 5 of 2018”, which among others, mandate that peoples blood group.......

Until now, Nigeria ranks among the lowest in global healthcare index judged by the ratio of physicians to citizens of a country. Critics say Nigeria has all it takes to produce the desired number of physicians needed for its 200 million population....

Scientists have employed garden snails to fight antibiotic resistance, cancers, scars and skin blemishes, and to produce faster-acting insulin.

The Federal Government of Nigeria and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has restated commitment to end open defecation by 2025 and achieve universal access to safely manage sanitation by 2030.

The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Nigeria Programme, on June 10, 2019 gave awards honouring 16 distinguished men and women that have made significant contributions to the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus ....

Baby Grubz is an indigenous Nigerian baby food production company, which promotes gender inclusion through the sales of her natural complementary meals for children six months to five years.

A Health expert has warned Nigerians against consuming cowhides popularly called ‘Ponmo’ processed with flames from burning tyres and fuel, saying...

Five years after the first Ebola virus outbreak was recorded in the country, there are still concerns, given the rampage of the virus in Central Africa.

The management of Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH) has vowed to sanction health workers collecting service charges from those...