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The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced, for the second time around, that Liberia is now free of the Ebola virus. A statement issued by the world body on Thursday September 3 declared that forty-two days had passed since the…

No fewer than 37 million under-five children have been immunized so far in 13 states of the northern part of Nigeria during this month’s round of Sub – National Immunization Days, SIPDs which began on Saturday. According to a statement…

Multinational Swiss pharmaceutical company, Roche Products Limited, Thursday launched Nigeria's foremost Health Journalists Academy, which is aimed at enriching health reportage and coverage in the country by sharpening the skills of…

India has achieved a momentous public health feat – the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus. Maternal and neonatal tetanus is reduced to less than one case per 1 000 live births in all 675 districts of the country. The World…

• 7 children at 38 and pregnant with no 8 • Body too weak for the rigor of another baby • Shunned antenatal care • Could have prevented more pregnancies and eventual death with contraceptives Just one faint gasp and she was dead.…

... PSN President advises Nigerians on right approach to drug use Your doctor has just diagnosed an ailment which has for some time, become a source of worry to you. As is often the practice In Nigeria, he has volunteered much…

The Federal Ministry of Health Thursday performed the "ground breaking" for the construction of a state-of-the-art pharmaceutical grade warehouse to be built in Lagos by the US government through the US Agency for International…

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, rounded off his visit to Nigeria on Tuesday night with a dinner hosted in his honour by President Muhammadu Buhari. The 2-day visit featured high level discussions with the…

1,200 children die daily from malnutrition in Nigeria. A media workshop on malnutrition organised by the United Nations Children Fund, (UNICEF), kicked off this morning at Channel View hotel, Calabar amidst startling revelation that no…

Participants at the workshop this morning The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is currently holding a 2-day media workshop on malnutrition at Channel View Hotel, Calabar, Cross River State. The workshop is expected to  update…