Category: Health

President Goodluck Jonathan Friday approved the  appointment of chairmen and composition of  12 the Management Boards of  Federal Government owned hospitals across the country. This was contained in a press...

  Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help,the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds...

ON this year’s World Oral Day, experts at Oral-B school enlightenment programme counselled Nigerian children to take less of sugary things in order to prevent  oral health diseases such as...

The sooner a person smokes a cigarette upon waking in the morning, the more likely he or she is to acquire lung or oral cancer, according to Penn State researchers....

THERE is trouble in Nigeria’s house of health at the Federal level, where health workers under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, are spoiling for a showdown...

Rivers State has been adjudged the best state in the federation in the area of malaria elimination and control programme. This was made known at the 11th bi-annual meeting of...

There are several types of toxins that can build up in the body. If you are fighting cancer, it is especially important you remove these toxins from your system or...

Two men have died in the Chinese city of Shanghai, after contracting a strain of bird flu not previously known in humans, Chinese officials say. The men, aged 27 and...

Nigeria spends about $500m (about N78.5bn) every year on the importation of insulin, Director-General, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Prof. Bamidele Solomon, has said. Solomon, who said this at NABDA roundtable...

The Tulsa Health Department is warning 7,000 patients of a local dentist's office that they could have contracted HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C from poor sterilization practices. Dr. Wayne...