Pathfinder boosts media capacity to sustain advocacy for family planning
COUNTRY Director, Pathfinder International, Nigeria, Dr Amina Aminu Dorayi says its training of trainers for media was to ensure sustained...
Health insurance, best option to access basic health services — Otegbayo, UCH’s CMD
AMIDST the complaints by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) enrollees, University College Hospital’s Chief Medical Director, Professor Jesse Otegbayo...
Dramatic economic progress only possible with bold investments in health — Osibogun
A public health expert, Professor Akin Osibogun says that Nigeria can only make dramatic economic progress only if it makes...
Sore throat relief: What’s the best medicine to use for children?
Sore throat is a common problem during childhood and is usually the result of a bacterial or viral infection. However,...
‘Male coital difficulties major cause of infertility at BSUTH’
Coital difficulties resulting from a low frequency of sexual exposure constitute a major cause of infertility among males attending the...
13.3% of Nigerians wrongly adjudged to have normal blood pressure, Masked Hypertension common — Survey
EXPERTS, in a new survey, said that 13.3 per cent of Nigerians whose blood pressure reading is normal when taken...
Impact of school desk on children’s health, learning
SCHOOLS are the second home for students and they spend between five to seven hours of their useful time in...
‘Nigeria among sub-Saharan African countries that contribute 68% of global death in women’
DESPITE development in medicine, Nigeria and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa still contribute 68 per cent of deaths in women...
Stakeholders express concern on poor funding for malaria prevention
STAKEHOLDERS have expressed concern on poor domestic funding for malaria prevention activities and the high dropout rates of pregnant women...
Loss of antibiotic effectiveness poses extinction risk to humanity — Expert
A N infectious disease expert, Professor Abdulrazaq Habib says increasingly many drugs are proving useless in treating many infections due...
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