Category: Health

The Acting Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Dr AbdulRahman Sambo, said inadequate funding was needed to attain universal health coverage in the country. Sambo told the...

MAKURDI— The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, yesterday, lamented that over 194,000 Nigerian children under the age of...

A group of medical experts has called for adoption of scientific  control and prevention strategies to stem what they described as the imminent “tsunami” of Non Communicable Disorders, NCDs, such...

1. On Your Back, Arms at Sides   Sleeping on your back with your arms at your side is generally considered to be the best sleeping position for spine health...

As a mother do you still enjoy the act of breastfeeding?  Nothing can beat that feeling that you breast fed your own baby.  From experience, breast feeding promotes bonding between...

America's fertility rate is taking baby steps upward, a new report suggests.   The total fertility rate in the USA is predicted to rise from a 25-year low of 1.89...

Eight-year-old boy, Pan Xianhang has been nicknamed 'fish boy' by neighbours because he's covered from head to toe in thick, itchy scales.   He was born in Wenling, China with...

Insurance is the transfer of risk from people exposed to risks to professional risk carriers, which are the insurance companies. Every one of us is exposed to one risk or...

For about five days beginning Friday last week, all roads led to the ROA Hospital & Surgical Centre, a comprehensive health care facility located on Arepo Road, off Lagos- Ibadan...

Women who like to have their breasts squeezed will now possibly gain a health benefit, according to new research released last week.?? According to researchers from the University of California...