MDG: Can Nigeria realise Goal 5 in 2015?
In September 2000, world leaders set far-sighted targets – Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – for the health of women and children, gender equality, education, the environment and global...
View ArticleFoundation to power free diabetes, hypertension screening
The Babatunde Femi Owolabi Memorial Heart Foundation, a non-governmental and profit organisation based in Atlanta Georgia, USA, is set to facilitate a public lecture and organise free diabetes and...
View ArticleLagos dentists organise walk to mark World Oral Health Day
The Lagos chapter of the Nigerian Dental Association is has concluded arrangements to hold a health walk in conjunction with the Nigerian Dental Association (NDA) to mark this year’s the World Oral...
View ArticleVitamin D ‘ineffective as treatment for hypertension’
A new study has concluded that vitamin D supplementation is ineffective in lowering blood pressure and should not be used as an antihypertensive agent. The findings refute suggestions that the vitamin...
View ArticleSON withdrew all NIS certificates on Nigerian Products
Standard Organisation of Nigeria SON, has withdrawn all the NIS certificates awarded to manufacturing companies in Nigeria with immediate effect for gross abuse of the certificate. The Director General...
View ArticleFG Lends Support to brush day and night campaign
With about 6 to 22.5 percent of children suffering from cavities, Unilever Nigeria launched its 2015 Brush Day and Night campaign to renew its commitment to improving the state of oral care in Nigeria....
View ArticleWHO calls for 20-year strategy support to end global tuberculosis epidemic
Tuberculosis (TB) is second only to HIV/AIDS as the greatest killer worldwide due to a single infectious agent. Over 95% of TB deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, and it is among the top...
View ArticleResearchers out with new evidence to help health workers fight against Ebola
One year after the first Ebola cases started to surface in Guinea, which later spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone (three worst hit countries), and later marginally touching other countries, with more...
View ArticleNigeria may miss 75% target drop in malaria deaths by 2015 -WHO
Nigeria is likely to be among the African countries that will not attain the World Health Assembly target of a 75 percent reduction in malaria cases and deaths by 2015, health experts say. In 2013,...
View ArticleImmunisation, key to prevention of childhood killer diseases
Many years ago, children within the age range of 14 weeks and five years were dying from preventable childhood killer diseases. Measles, whooping cough and many other ailments were taking a deadly...
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