Nigeria may be certified polio-free this December when it would have accomplished interruption of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) transmission for over three years...

At least 174 people have been killed and 758 wounded in the battle for control over the Libyan capital Tripoli, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

Reasons have come to the fore why the next outbreak of epidemic in Nigeria and some other African and Asian nations might not be far off.

Fighting near Tripoli has killed 121 people and wounded 561 since strongman Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive earlier this month to take the Libyan capital, the World Health Organization said Sunday.

Coping with the sweltering heat during an intense heat wave can be extremely difficult and frustrating for anyone to endure. Especially when electricity shortages seem to be the norm in Nigeria...

As the World Health Day is marked globally today, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for improved access to primary healthcare to achieve universal health coverage (UHC).

The number of people who become ill and die from antibiotic-resistant germs is increasing worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) sees understanding the spread of antibiotic resistance and developing countermeasures as one of the most important global challenges. Against this background Gabriele Berg, who heads the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology at Graz University of Technology…

No fewer than one in four healthcare facilities lack water and sanitation services, impacting over two billion people.According to a new report published yesterday by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children Fund ....

Africa loses more than $2.4 trillion (about N864 trillion) of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) yearly to diseases afflicting its 47 member states. It also lost nearly 630 million years of healthy life in 2015 to infirmities. A recent estimate by the World Health Organisation (WHO), published yesterday, showed that Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo,…

The debate on whether the use of the popular talcum powder causes cancer has refused to go away. Indeed, the use of talcum powder has become a controversial issue...

About 57 per cent of childhood cancer cases in West Africa and more than half of global incidents of the disease go undiagnosed.

Medical experts have warned of the spread of the untreatable variant of tuberculosis (TB) in Nigeria.