The Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency, HEFAMAA, has urged Lagos residents to remain alert and report illegal or substandard Health facilities operating in their communities. Speaking at a sensitisation and town hall meeting in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area, Read more…
Tuberculosis remains the world’s leading infectious killer, claiming an estimated 1.23 million lives last year, the UN Health organisation said Wednesday as it warned that recent gains made against the disease were fragile. Deaths from TB were down three Read more…
A study by neurologists at the Institute of Advanced Medical Research and Training, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, has linked heart health, lack of physical activity, diabetes, and hypertension to dementia in elderly people. The study sought to Read more…
The Senate has advanced a bill seeking to earmark excise duties collected from non-alcoholic, carbonated, and sweetened beverages for health-related programmes and infrastructure across the country. The sponsor of the bill, Senator Ipalibo Harry-Banigo (Rivers West), explained that the Read more…
The National Agency of Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has banned the production and sale of alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and small bottles below 200ml by December 2025. NAFDAC Director General, Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the directive Read more…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has issued a public alert over the circulation of a suspected substandard and falsified antibiotic, BETACLOX (Ampicillin 250mg and Cloxacillin 250mg), discovered within Nigeria’s drug supply chain. According Read more…
A senior lecturer at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Dr Muhammad Habeebu, has identified alcohol consumption, sedentary lifestyle, and junk food as major lifestyle factors that increase the risk of developing breast cancer, particularly among women. Read more…
One hundred and seventy-six people have died of Lassa fever in Nigeria, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has been confirmed. The latest epidemiological report released by the NCDC stated that as of Epidemiological Week 43, 2025, Read more…
Dental students of the University of Jos on Thursday staged a peaceful protest at the institution’s permanent site to demand urgent intervention over what they described as a decade-long academic stagnation. The students, under the umbrella of the Jos Read more…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed that at least 176 people have died from Lassa fever across 21 states. According to the agency’s latest Lassa Fever Situation Report, a total of 955 confirmed cases Read more…