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Good News: Nigerian Scientist Invents Vaccine For Typhoid Fever

Simon Magaji Agwale, a Nigerian vaccinologist, has produced a conjugate vaccine for the prevention of typhoid fever, which he claims has 90% efficiency and...

21 Killed By New Diseases Strain Of Meningitis ‘Imported’ From Niger Republic

Over twenty people are said to have died following the suspected outbreak of a diseases believed to be Cerebro Spinal Meningitis in Sokoto State,...

Depression: A Menace Less Tackled In Nigeria, By Blessing Enenaite

In the wake of a shocking suicide by a medical doctor in Lagos, Blessing Enenaite writes about depression and that fact that it is hardly...

Nigerian Health Minister Issues Warning On Outbreak Of New Deadly Disease

The federal government says it has deployed epidemiologists and vaccines to arrest the outbreak of a new a strain of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, CSM,...

Mimiko, In Washington, Advocates Improved Funding For Healthcare In Africa

Olusegun Mimiko, the immediate past governor of Ondo State, has advised policy makers across Africa to make healthcare delivery a top priority by emplacing...

Coffee, Not Sex, Will Make You Live Longer, New Study Says

Desperate for a magical potion to help them live longer, many frantically try a range of new things in the belief it will give...

4 Dead In Plateau In Fresh Outbreak Of Lassa Fever

The Plateau government says it has so far recorded four deaths and five cases of Lassa fever in the state. The Commissioner for Health, Dr....

Dwindling Naira Turns Buhari’s 2017 Health Budget Into A Joke

Due to continuous depreciation of Nigeria Naira to other foreign currencies, stakeholders in the health sector have raised an alarm over inadequate budgetary provision...

‘No New Case Of Polio In Cross River State’ – FG

Emmanuel Odu, the acting executive-director the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, says that Nigeria has not recorded a new case of polio. Dr. Odu, at a...

‘40% Nigerian Men Living With Prostate Cancer, Many Are Not Aware’ – Expert

Forty per cent of men aged about 40 years are living with prostate cancer and many are unaware of their status, an expert has...

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