By Don Silas Dr Osagie Ehanire, the Minister of Health has said that there are actually enough medical doctors in Nigeria.He said the Federal Government is working toward replacing any medical doctor who resigns and leaves the country.Ehanire, who made the assertion on Tuesday in Abuja during a ...

By Wale Odunsi The federal government has reiterated its assurance that measures are being deployed to address the brain drain in Nigeria.Minister of State for Health, Joseph Ekumankama spoke with reporters on Monday at the Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Meta, Lagos.He inaugurated the Orthopedic and ...

By Daily Post Staff The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said it has recovered an additional sum of one billion, four hundred million naira (N1.4 Billion) for the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS.In a statement via its official Twitter handle, the money, according to the ...

By  Lara Adejoro The World Health Organisation has said that 160 million Nigerians are at risk of yellow fever.The WHO said with Nigeria’s population of about 200 million, the figure makes up around 25 percent of all the people at risk in Africa.Yellow fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic disease ...

By Angela Onwuzoo …We pay between N200 to N1500 for urine tests at every antenatal appointment –Pregnant womenFrom the demand for surgical gloves, cotton wool, detergent, syringes, and bleach for delivery, to the high cost of antenatal care registration, and alleged high charges for normal delivery ...

  Eight hundred and eighty (880) fresh coronavirus infections have been reported in Nigeria from July 2 to 8, though with no fatalities, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has explained. The new cases were confirmed by the NCDC via its official website on Saturday ...

The UK Health Security Agency on Tuesday recommended that some gay and bisexual men at higher risk of contracting monkeypox should be offered a vaccine to control an outbreak. A total of 793 cases of the chickenpox-like disease have been recorded across the country as of Monday, the public ...

Oluwatobiloba Jaiyeola The World Health Organisation has announced the launch of a new mobile application that would help curb skin cancer. The application, according to the WHO, is to help protect individuals from excessive ultraviolet exposure, a key cause of skin cancer and other ...

The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Obafemi Awolowo Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife branch, on Wednesday, challenged the Association of Resident Doctors in the hospital to approach the court of law for redress, instead of embarking on industrial action over the alleged harassment ...

  Oluwatobiloba Jaiyeola A dental care expert, Dr. Agho Theophilus has cautioned Nigerians against brushing right after engaging in oral sex, noting that it is bad for oral health. Theophilus who is a consultant of oral ...

  Amarachi Okeh A Consultant Urologist, Dr. Gabriel Ogah has advised men who are battling premature ejaculation to seek appropriate medical treatment instead of taking a Viagra-type drug, noting that such medications cannot cure the health condition. The expert stressed that drugs ...

A United States, US, drug trial involving cancer patients has reportedly recorded 100 percent success. The patients had rectal cancer, a type of cancer that begins in the rectum, which is the lower end of the large intestine. According to a study published in the New England Journal of ...

Lara Adejoro A medical health expert, Dr. Toluwani Binutu, has warned women against inserting cucumber in the vagina. According to him, using a cucumber to clean the vagina is potentially harmful, and should be avoided. Dr. Binutu also said it is unsafe to use feminine wash or soap products ...

At last, the Federal Government, yesterday, in Abuja, kick-started plan to locally manufacture human vaccines, with the first meeting of the Inter Ministerial Steering Committee and Technical Working Group on Local Vaccine Manufacturing. Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, in his speech, ...

To have a well-balanced, it should begin with having leafy green vegetables on a plate. Green vegetables are a rich dose of vitamins, minerals, and fibre. More interestingly they are low in calories. Health defects like obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and mental decline have all ...

No fewer than 2.5 million teenage girls and women are wreaked with unwanted pregnancy annually in Nigeria, with over 121 million unintended pregnancies every year, worldwide. A report issued by the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, entitled: “2022 State of the World Population (SWOP)” ...

•Patients taking experimental obesity drug lost more than 22.6kg, maker claims•Cure for premature ejaculation that can help men last seven times longer in bed•Involves zapping penis with electricity for 30 minutes at a time Scientists have demonstrated how men with obesity can double their sperm ...

A non-governmental organisation, Girls To Women With Ease Foundation (G2WE) has advised women across the country to desist from using rags, newspapers and tissue papers for menstruation. The group noted that constant usage of those items may cause infections, cancer and ...

• 92 confirmed cases, 50 suspected incidences in 12 countries There are concerns as monkeypox, for the first time, spreads worldwide, rattling the World Health Organisation (WHO), United States (U.S.) and United Kingdom (U.K.) WHO, yesterday, said the recent outbreaks reported across 12 ...

Last winter’s sports season had just begun, and the epidemiology staff at Nevada’s second-largest health district were busy calling the parents of high school athletes who’d tested positive for COVID-19. A state mandate required unvaccinated or traveling athletes to get tested weekly. A nasal swab ...

It's not a new disease, even in the US, but health officials are monitoring the rare cases for more spread. The US confirmed a case of monkeypox in a man from Massachusetts who'd recently traveled to Canada, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday. The man was ...

A more transmissible and damaging sub-type of HIV, has been isolated, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). People living with the newly revealed subtype, experience doubles the rate of immune system decline (measured by the CD4 count level of ...

THE Federal Government has announced plans to phase out hazard allowance paid to medical doctors and other health workers in medical centres and clinics in Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs. A circular by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, NSIWC, signed by its ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the world would require nine million more nurses and midwives to realise the health-related global Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. According to the latest estimates from WHO, there are 1.6 million nurses and midwives across 47 African ...

Social media platforms were awash with the video of a young Nigerian lady having sex with a dog. Since then there have been questions about the act which many have described as ‘unclean or taboo’. Meanwhile, medical experts are warning that such act could spark off emerging or remerging ...

READ IT CAREFULLY & SHARE IT !!!! This is from Dr. Geetha Krishnaswamy 1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. 2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated. 3 SUDDENLY you start experiencing severe pain in your CHEST ...