The Nigeria National Polio Plus Committee has advised Nigerian parents to continue to get their children immunised against polio even though the country was certified polio-free by the World Health…

Namibia will suspend its rollout of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, its health ministry said on Saturday, days after the drugs regulator in neighbouring South Africa flagged concerns about its…

Stroke is a fairly common problem which we have discussed before on this page but that was essentially an attempt to describe how people with this problem generally present when…

In this interview, Dr Ogunbiyi Agboola, a senior registrar at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, speaks to GODFREY GEORGE about the causes and management of epistaxis…

Ethel Olomu is a stage four breast cancer survivor, having battled the disease for 11 years. Ethel who is now a cancer advocate says while surviving stage four breast cancer…

When Mrs. Ebunola  Anozie lost her mother, Mrs. Claudia Adeniyi, to colorectal cancer in 1970, she was heartbroken. She was only seven years old when her mother died at the…

A medical expert has urged older men to take better care of their prostate health to prevent other health complications. The expert, a Professor of Surgery, Kehinde Tijani, noted that…

The World Health Organisation says between 80,000 and 180,000 health and care workers may have died from Coronavirus (COVID-19) globally between January of 2020 and May, 2021. WHO gave the…

A Consultant Psychiatrist at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Lagos, Dr Olufunmilayo Akinola, has called for the increment of budget allotted for the treatment and prevention of mental health in the…

The Nigerian Optometric Association has said over 80 per cent of blindness are due to avoidable causes. The President of the association, Dr Obinna Awiaka, at a briefing organised in…