Cote d’Ivoire has launched Ebola vaccination of high-risk populations, including health workers and first responders in Abidjan, where an Ebola outbreak was declared on 14 August. The country was able ...

As COVID-19 cases in Africa rise for the third week running and vaccines are increasingly scarce, 47 of Africa’s 54 countries—nearly 90%—are set to miss the September target of vaccinating 10% of thei ...

Global pharmaceutical giant Novartis has delivered 1 billion courses of antimalarial treatment, including 430 million pediatric treatments, largely at no profit since 1999; With other innovations, the ...

As the target date given by the federal government for states to end the first phase of COVID-19 vaccination approaches, the turnout for the exercise in many states has remained low, THISDAY’s investi ...

As the world scrambles for the limited quantity of COVID-19 vaccines on offer, Nigeria has produced two vaccines against the virus, which are set to undergo clinical trials and possible certification ...

Authorities are worried at the rate underground scammers are selling fake COVID-19 vaccines. The majority of sellers originated in France, Germany, the UK, and the USA, and the prices per dose range f ...

The South African health authorities have said that the government arrived at the decision to stop administering the AstraZeneca vaccine in the country because it showed less protection there than els ...

The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has proven ‘minimally effective’ against the South African variant, according to the Wits Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics (VIDA) research unit. The #AstraZe ...

Nigeria’s leading medical research startup, 54gene has completed its world class scientific research laboratory with the capacity of carrying out entire human genome sequencing and a variety of other ...

The Nigerian Medical Association on Monday said COVID-19 vaccines being imported into the country must undergo a quick clinical trial before it is administered to citizens. According to the NMA Presid ...

At least 20 Nigerian doctors have died from complications arising from coronavirus in the last one week, the chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), FCT, Chapter Enema Amodu, has said. Mr A ...

Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, says COVID-19 vaccines may arrive in Nigeria on January 19, 2021. He said a technical working group had begun work on modalities for the project. Addressing State H ...

54Gene, the Nigerian leading health startup has achieved another milestone through the completion of their state of the art a lab capable of carrying out whole genome sequencing of humans. The laborat ...

The Federal Government on Wednesday announced the disbursement of N66.5bn ($175m) to 35 eligible states on the basis of the Amended COVID-19 Responsive 2020 Budget results achievement. According to th ...

A final analysis of the Phase 3 trial of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine shows it was 95% effective in preventing infections, even in older adults, and caused no serious safety concerns, the company said ...

The African Export-Import Bank has expressed readiness to raise up to $5bn to purchase Covid-19 vaccines for African countries this was made known  head of Africa’s Centre for Disease Control and Prev ...

US regulators have given full approval for the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat Covid-19 patients in hospitals. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Veklury, the drug's brand name, cut the ...

Coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air, sometimes for hours, says the US Centres for Disease Control. Its updated guidance says this airborne route of transmission is still u ...

A new study published this week in peer-reviewed medical journal the Lancet indicates that antiviral drug lopinavir-ritonavir is not an effective treatment for patients hospitalized with COVID-19. “Tr ...

More than 1.7bn people require treatment for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) worldwide, with over 40% of the burden in Africa. Data indicate that reducing the illness and early death associated wit ...

British scientists have launched a major study aimed at uncovering the critical role that human antibodies and other immune defences play in the severity of Covid-19 cases. Results could support some ...

The largest U.S. genetic study of the virus, conducted in Houston, shows one viral strain outdistancing all of its competitors, and many potentially important mutations. Scientists in Houston have rel ...

A new report on the new coronavirus pandemic in Africa, presented by Partnership for Evidence-Based COVID-19 Response (PERC), reveals the multidimensional challenges faced by the people on the contine ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that Africa's mild Covid-19 cases could be as a result of the continent having far more asymptomatic cases than the rest of the world. This was made known ...

Authorities in Abuja have shut two of the four isolation centres that cater for coronavirus patients in the Nigerian capital.The COVID-19 isolation centres located inside Karu and Asokoro General Hosp ...

Every year, 1.9 million people die from tobacco-induced heart disease, according to a new brief released om Tuesday by the World Health Organisation, World Heart Federation and the University of Newca ...

Health workers in various hospitals and health centre across Nigeria resumed work on Monday following the suspended the seven-day warning strike embarked upon by the Joint Health Sector Unions and Ass ...

The Presidential Taskforce (PTF) on COVID-19 says Nigeria had made tremendous progress in containing the disease, citing data from other nations.  According to the taskforce, the curve was flatte ...

By Chinedu Obike The Presidential Task Force on COVID 19 has raised an alarm that some international travelers with the deadly virus are entering the country through fraudulent means. The National Coo ...

By Chinedu Obike The Nigerian health sector appears to be in dire straits; an embattled sector desperately gasping for breath, just like the COVID-19 patients it's meant to cater for. It is a sector t ...

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has faulted the decision of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to embark on an indefinite strike from today, accusing the medics of impatien ...

African countries are fast signing up to a ground-breaking initiative which aims to secure at least 220 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine for the continent, once licensed and approved. All 54 coun ...

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has recovered from coronavirus. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Lagos State, Gbenga Omotosho, made this known on Monday. Abayomi ...

The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) are to support Institute Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) based in Senegal with medical equipment and biomedica ...

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, has dismissed the claim of discovering HIV/AIDS cure by a professor of Veterinary Medicine and Clinical Virology at the Michael Okpara University of ...

Developing countries generally suffer from the nuisance of open defecation which not only embarrasses but poses severe public health challenges to such countries. Sadly, Nigeria is no exception. It ha ...

The basic facts you need to know about Breast Cancer • Though a lot commoner in women, men also suffer from breast cancer • Though a lot commoner in over 50 years, younger people also suffer from it • ...

Merck will sponsor nine medical doctors from Sub-Saharan African countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa for a period of two years -  Program aims to improve access to can ...

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in partnership with the World Bank has commenced its sensitization programme on prevention of HIV/AIDS among ports users and other maritime stakeholders. The sensiti ...

World Health Organization (WHO) is set to formally announce delisting of Nigeria as a polio endemic country on October 26, 2015, preparatory for attaining certification by 2017. The event, which is bi ...

As part of efforts to fighting hypertension in Nigeria, the Federal Government has decided to look inward by working closely with local private drug manufacturers to make anti-hypertensive drugs avail ...

As government and health professionals battles to control an outbreak of strange disease that has reportedly killed about 28 people in Ode-Irele community of Ondo state in the past three days, the puz ...

Experts proffer measures for reducing the risk of prostate cancer which is fast becoming a leading cause of male deaths in Nigeria Prostate cancer, also known as carcinoma of the prostate which result ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] Since Patrick (Ebola) Sawyer, the Liberian-American imported the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) into Nigeria on July ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] By Pita Ochai In its effort to eradicate the dreaded polio in the country, the Federal Government has signed a Memorand ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] In recent weeks, Nigerians have been gripped with fear over the scourge of the dreaded Ebola Virus. As the Federal gove ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] By Chris Ajaero In the past few weeks, Nigerians have been gripped with fear over the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] Cervical cancer is a major killer among women but doctors believe it is preventable By Chris Ajaero It is the most comm ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] By Victor Edosomwan   Want to be sharper at work? Feel less tired at home? Spend some quality time with your spous ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] The Managing Director, New Heights Pharma, Lagos, Mr. Ogheneochuko Omaruaye has urged Nigerians to always go for blood ...