World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Nigeria, Dr. Wondimagegnehu Alemu, says the global agency in collaboration with the state government has taken a vaccination campaign to very prone councils in the wake of the recent cholera outbreak in Adamawa. The affected council areas include Maiha, Mubi North and Mubi South. Alemu made the disclosure in…

Radiologists have said early detection of breast cancer through clinical screening will enhance treatment outcome because late presentation is the usual cause of patients’ death.

A new formulation of a drug to prevent excessive bleeding following childbirth could save thousands of women’s lives in low- and lower-middle-income countries

There are renewed efforts to classify diseases and to map how humans live and die. According to latest figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO), there are few truer snapshots of a country’s wellbeing than its health statistics. While broad economic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) may skew impressions of individual prosperity, data…

Tests carried out by the World Health Organization following a suspected case of polio in Venezuela have ruled out any return of the crippling childhood disease, the UN agency has said. Polio has been eradicated for decades in the crisis-wracked country, with the last case of acute poliomyelitis reported in 1989, a former health minister…

International oil companies have been urged to stop flouting the Nigeria local content law and thwarting maximum utilisation of Nigerian services and assets. The Executive Secretary...

*Speedy tests mean health workers can now diagnose EVD in hours, instead of days *Virologists use ‘genetic trees’ to evaluate intervention strategies, researchers find *Nigeria on alert as poliomyelitis re-emerges in Venezuela nearly 30 years after eradication Despite reports that the ongoing outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…

Hypertension and heart disease are global health concerns. May 17th has been set aside to commemorate World Hypertension Day, an initiative of the World Hypertension League (WHL). The theme of this year’s commemoration is “Know Your Numbers” with a goal of increasing high blood pressure (BP) awareness in all populations around the world. The World…

The Yobe state government has declared cholera outbreak over in five council areas with a case fatality ratio of 3.7 per cent.

The director general of the World Health Organisation said Sunday he believed a swift end could be put to the outbreak of Ebola in northwestern DR Congo, some 21 days which has left 27 people dead over the past month.

The reports that there is a fresh outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo should sound a note of warning to the government and people of Nigeria to be on guard. Since Ebola virus was first identified in 1976, sporadic outbreaks have been reported in Africa and the 2013–2016 West African Ebola....

The World Health Organisation (WHO), has warned that if the outbreak of cholera in parts of Adamawa continues it may spread to other areas and across the border to Cameroon posing a major public health threat.