Category: Nutrition

Tanzania has launched a nationwide drive to help parents register their children's births by mobile phone so the government can better plan health, education and other public services. The country...

Mr Abashiya Koto, Chairman of Akwanga Local Government of Nasarawa State has denied rumours of cholera outbreak in the area. Koto told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that hepatitis B and C cause approximately 80% of all liver cancer deaths and kill close to 1.4 million people every year. The...

A new study has found that many doctors, nurses, midwives and physicians assistants come to work sick even though they know it puts patients at risk. It further revealed that...

UK researchers have warned that human breast milk being bought online by fetishists, bodybuilders and cancer patients is a danger to health. The Queen Mary University of London team claimed...

UNICEF has reported that the nutrition and health status of women and children in the Dolari camp for Internally Displaced People (IDP) is very poor. According to Ms Jean Gough,...

New research has shown that the Ebola virus that killed over 11,000 people  did not mutate at a faster rate than in previous outbreaks. This is contrary to research conducted...

The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Linus Awute, on Saturday, June 13, said the estimated blood needs in Nigeria stands at between 1.4 to 1.7 million units per annum....

In a bid to advance healthcare in Nigeria and the West African region, scientists and medical experts have called for more clinical trials in the region. The call was made...

Regular blood tests can detect 86% of ovarian cancers before the point at which women normally would be diagnosed, BBC reports. This has been revealed by a trial that could...