Medical News


Health Minister Wants Palliative Care in Basic Care Package

The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, has said that the ministry would encourage key st…

Read More
Medical Council Inducts Foreign Trained 164 Doctors, Dentists

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, has inducted 164 foreign trained medical and dent…

Read More
Lagos Averts 189,800 Unsafe Abortions, Maternal Deaths Through Family Planning

The Lagos State Ministry of Health, LSMoH, has said that the uptake of family planning,  by 6…

Read More
Injections ‘Next Revolution’ In HIV - Study

The "next revolution" in HIV could see daily drugs replaced with just six doses a year, …

Read More
#CharlieGard: Last Precious Moments For Parents With Their Son

Charlie Gard's parents are spending their "last precious moments" with their termina…

Read More
Unprecedented Outbreak Of Dengue Fever Plagues Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is facing an "unprecedented" outbreak of deadly dengue fever, with 296 deaths …

Read More
NHIS Crisis: Reps Overstepping Their Bounds

There is so much chaos in Nigeria’s public service. This congenital defect has cropped up at…

Read More
WHO Urges Action Against HIV Drug Resistance Threat

WHO alerts countries to the increasing trend of resistance to HIV drugs detailed in a report based…

Read More
Uncertainty Trails Appointment Of UBTH Chief Medical Director

No fewer than 15 applicants have indicated interest in the position of the Chief Medical Director …

Read More
LAUTECH Doctors Demand Reversal Of Salary Cut

Medical doctors at  the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso…

Read More
NMA Calls For Law Against Quackery In Ebonyi State

The Ebonyi State chapter of Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, weekend, called on the state House o…

Read More
Exercising During Pregnancy Safe for Babies, Cuts Need for C Section by 10%

* Running for one minute daily, dieting reduce diabetes risk in pregnancy, brittle bone disease …

Read More
Taking Antibiotics While Carrying Child Causes Cirth Defects

Taking common antibiotics during pregnancy may increase the chance of birth defects, major new res…

Read More
Doctors in Limbo Over Ogun State’s Land Allocation

Ten years after some medical doctors were promised landed property in the Sagamu corridor by the O…

Read More
South African Child Virtually Cured Of HIV

A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatm…

Read More
Medical Imaging Practitioners Reject National Council of Radiology Bill

Medical radiographers and radiation scientists under the aegis of the Medical Imaging Society of N…

Read More
Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese as Children – Study

Infants born with a high birth weight are more likely to become obese as children, a new study fro…

Read More
Shining a Light can Stop Mosquito Bites

So you are sleeping under a mosquito net, have your quarters drenched in insecticide and still get…

Read More
HIV/AIDS Death have Reduced by 50 Per cent Globally –UNAIDS

Deaths linked to AIDS have halved in a decade, official figures show.   The condition, wh…

Read More
FEC Should Trigger Medical Examination of Buhari Now —Activists

A group, which identifies itself as the Coalition of Concerned Nigerians, has asked the Federal Ex…

Read More