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Winners of Nigeria's maiden Malaria Award for Journalism organised by 'Malaria No More', a non-governmental organisation, in partnership with ExxonMobil. L-R (above): Nengi Finecountry, AIT Rivers State (TV category), Appolonia Adeyemi,…

Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company, Novartis announced today that the European Commission has approved its new drug, Odomzo for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced basal cell carcinoma (cancer) (laBCC) who are not…

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration (NAFDAC) says it has successfully reduced the counterfeit of antimalaria drugs from 19.6 per cent in 2012 to 3.6 per cent in 2015. According to a press release from the agency, the…

Multinational Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche has inaugurated the Health Journalists Academy, the first ever academy in Nigeria, aimed at training health reporters selected from both the print and electronic media. The unveiling of the…

The complication of diabetes foot among diabetes patients has been reduced by over 80%, over the years, in the United States of America, thanks to a rapid development of podiatry medicine and aggressive education of both diabetes care…

Nigeria needs Podiatrists Participants at the ongoing workshop on Podiatry and Diabetes Foot care workshop were told this morning that Nigeria must train Podiatrists to manage the growing number of diabetes patients now developing foot…

The Government of Nigeria and UNICEF announced today they have reached more than a million Nigerian children with a highly successful and cost-effective treatment for acutely malnourished children, saving over 200,000 lives in the past six…

Afghanistan One new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case was confirmed this week in Achin district of Nangarhar, which is the first case in the province this year. This most recent case had onset of paralysis on 17 July. The total number of…

Multinational pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline, (GSK) has partnered the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) to introduce an innovative online training program for pharmacists in the country. The programme, tagged Scientific Course…

The National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, has requested for the data of about 120 million mobile lines in the country to enable it accelerate the effectiveness of mobile health insurance in the country. This is even as the scheme blamed…