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WHO launches first World report on vision shows 1 billion cases could have been prevented or have yet to be addressed More than 1 billion people worldwide are living with vision impairment  because they do not get the care they…

When she was offered a ticket to Oman to start work as a house help, 28 years old Nigerian woman Adaora already pictured a bright future abroad. But once in Oman, her dreams turned into nightmares. Confronted with a slave-like condition of…

as 2019 World Thrombosis Day is commemorated globally   Nigeria joins the rest of the world today to mark the 2019 World Thrombosis Day amid startling revelation that many cases of sudden death being recorded in the country…

Two Americans and a British scientist have been named winners of  the 2019 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for discovering how the body's cells sense and react to oxygen levels. Announcing the prize at the Karolinska Institute in…

Says government should give adolescent girls access to health Nigeria will move closer to achieving major targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by assuring adolescent girls access to health and critical social services, the…

Novartis stops worldwide distribution Pharmacy chains in the US have moved to stop selling Zantac –  a drug for  heartburn –  and its generic versions following the announcement by the (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that…

as Save The Children launches 'INSPIRING' project In a bid to save children from the scourge of pneumonia now rated as the second biggest killer of under-5 children worldwide, Save The Children International has commenced the…

Countries across the Africa region marked the first ever World Patient Safety Day on 17 September 2019, a day set aside by world leaders at the 72nd World Health Assembly to create awareness on patient safety and commitment towards…