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The Kogi state government has confirmed four cases of Lassa fever since the outbreak of the disease in the state this year. Saka Audu, the state commissioner for health, disclosed this at a joint news conference on Thursday in Lokoja on…

The Ogun and Lagos Governments have agreed to synergise on best ways to eradicate polio in the two neighbouring states. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the stakeholders’ meeting held in Abeokuta on Friday. The forum was…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has drawn up a plan to cut the number of people who are killed by snakebites in half, from its current estimated level of up to 138,000 per year. Snake poisoning is a neglected disease “that is…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday said it feared continued “intense transmission’’ of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where deaths from a nine-month-old epidemic are 994 and expected to exceed 1,000 within…

Although the Breast Cancer awareness month is marked globally in October, Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Ltd, on Tuesday held a cancer awareness programme in Lagos State and promised to build mammography centres across the nation.…

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Kogi State Chapter, has commended Governor Yahaya Bello for signing into law Kogi State Health Insurance Agency (KSHIA) Bill and Kogi State Primary Health Care Development Agency (KSPHCDA) Amendment…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has denounced a newspaper report that 70 per cent of medicines in Nigeria were fake. A press statement by Prof. Moji Adeyeye, Director General of the agency on…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted the public, especially healthcare providers, on the existence of fake Dukoral Oral Cholera vaccine circulating in Bangladesh. According to a statement…

Prof. Moji Adeyeye, the Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has commended the staff of the agency for living up to expectation in its 25 years of existence. Adeyeye made the…

About 1.7 million children are to be immunised against the spread of measles in Borno, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has said. In a statement on Thursday, Eva Hinds, UNICEF’s Communication Specialist, Borno Field Office, said…