The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has signed into law, the National Health Insurance Authority Bill 2022. The law repeals the National Health Insurance Scheme Act, Cap N42, Laws…

The Registrar of the Pharmacists’ Council of Nigeria, Dr Elijah Mohammed, has said that Nigeria has about 25,000 pharmacists, lamenting that, this is not enough to serve the country with…

Anyone familiar with current events should have heard about the news of yet another outbreak of an infection in Nigeria called Monkeypox. As if to say another virus from the…

A former Medical Director of the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Lagos, Dr Gbolahan Adebule, has urged the Federal and State Governments to increase funding for research in orthopaedic hospitals. Adebule said…

An optometrist and chief consultant at Access One Eye Centre in Lagos, Abraham Omeh and an intern optometrist, Prisca Ikechukwu, have warned that a high-level exposure to blue light from…

The Federal Government has said on Tuesday that about 26,800 deaths related to tobacco smoking were recorded annually in Nigeria. The National Coordinator, Non-Communicable Diseases Division on the Federal Ministry…

The Delta State Government has said an average of 80 per cent of residents of the state suffer from malaria, just as it is set to distribute 1.7 million insecticide-treated…

A Consultant Paediatrician, Dr. Abdurrazzaq Alege, has cautioned parents against buying furry toys and teddy bears for their children, noting that they can cause serious health problems and even death…

A Medical Laboratory Scientist, Obinna Chukwudi, has cautioned women against wearing underwear for more than 24 hours if they want to maintain good feminine hygiene. The microbiologist who works at…

A public health expert, Dr. Adiat Adeniyi, has bemoaned the lack of voluntary blood donors and access to grants, noting that they are some of the major challenges people living…