A head, neck, and thyroid surgeon at the University Hospitals of Leicester, Dr Oladejo Olaleye, has disclosed that head-neck cancers are the sixth most common cancers worldwide. Olaleye disclosed this in a chat on Channels Television’s programme Amazing Africans. Read more…
The Federal Government has reported a significant decline in malaria transmission in Lagos State, attributing the progress to sustained investments in prevention, testing, and treatment, and suggesting that malaria elimination is within reach in Nigeria. Minister of Health and Social Read more…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has raised the alarm over the authorised marketing and sale of pharmaceutical products by a private firm. The agency said it had carried out a nationwide mop-up of Read more…
The Federal Government says Nigeria’s Health sector has experienced stability in the last two and a half years, with no major disruption during the period. Nigeria’s Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Ali Pate, said this on Sunday, attributing Read more…
The UK is facing an “unprecedented wave of super flu,” a Health chief has warned, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer Friday denounced “reckless” plans by doctors to launch a five-day strike next week. “The ‘super flu’ epidemic sweeping the Read more…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is conducting a broad investigation into deaths potentially linked to Covid-19 vaccines, a spokesperson for Donald Trump’s vaccine-skeptic Health secretary said Tuesday. Since Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health Read more…
A sperm donor, who is an asymptomatic carrier of a genetic mutation increasing the risk of cancer, was used to conceive nearly 200 children worldwide, Denmark’s public broadcaster revealed Wednesday. Between 2006 and 2022, the man’s sperm was sold to Read more…
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said Monday it had identified a new strain of the mpox virus in England in a person who had recently travelled to Asia. “Our genomic testing has enabled us to detect this new mpox strain,” said Read more…
An advisory panel appointed by President Donald Trump’s vaccine-skeptic Health secretary voted Friday to stop recommending that all newborns in the United States receive a hepatitis B vaccine. The move to end the decades-old recommendation is the panel’s latest Read more…
A pregnant woman, identified as Aisha Najamu, has died at the Turai Umaru Musa Yar’adua Maternity and Children Hospital in Katsina State after a Health worker allegedly refused to accept a bank transfer for the payment of oxygen service, Read more…