Malnutrition can cause its own form of diabetes, Health experts said Thursday, calling for “type 5 diabetes” to be recognised globally to help fight the disease in countries already struggling with poverty and starvation. The most common form of diabetes, Read more…
India has issued a Health alert after infections and deaths caused by a rare water-borne “brain-eating” amoeba doubled compared to last year in the southern state of Kerala. Numbers are still tiny but Altaf Ali, a doctor who is part Read more…
The Bauchi State Government has set up a Cholera steering and technical committee to coordinate emergency response and find long-term solutions to recent Cholera outbreak that has claimed several lives in the state. Speaking at the inauguration of the committee Read more…
Scientists said Wednesday that they had created an AI model able to predict medical diagnoses years in advance, building on the same technology behind consumer chatbots like ChatGPT. Based on a patient’s case history, the Delphi-2M AI “predicts the Read more…
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, convicted last week of leading an attempted coup, has been diagnosed with skin cancer, his doctor said Wednesday. The announcement came as the beleaguered far-right leader, 70, was discharged from a hospital in the Read more…
The Ogun state government, through the Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, on Tuesday alerted members of the public on the rise in the number of diphtheria cases across the state. According to Coker, diphtheria is a bacterial infection that Read more…
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has commenced a five-day warning strike on Friday, 12 September 2025, despite assurances by the Federal Government that the action would be averted. Resident doctors are medical school graduates training as specialists. Read more…
The Democratic Republic of Congo began on Sunday a vaccine programme against a fresh Ebola epidemic, which has killed 28 people in the country since late August. A first load of 400 doses against the often fatal viral disease was Read more…
British pharmaceutical group GSK said Wednesday it will invest $30 billion in the United States over the next five years, as drugmakers face pressure from US President Donald Trump to produce more in the country. The investments, announced on Read more…
Resident doctors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have declared an indefinite strike, beginning from Monday, over what they described as the authorities’ failure to address their demands. “The Association of Resident Doctors, FCTA, at its Emergency General Meeting Read more…