The human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine is cutting cases of cervical cancer by nearly 90%, the first real-world data shows. Cancer Research UK described the findings...
More than five million people are known to have died of Covid-19 worldwide, 19 months since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University. Vaccines have...
The WHO said Thursday that 80,000 to 180,000 health care workers may have been killed by Covid-19 up to May this year, insisting they must be...
The Senate on Tuesday resolved to investigate allegations of fake COVID-19 test result to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians in Ghana and the use of fake COVID-19 vaccination...
The Senate has passed a bill seeking to control and manage sickle cell anaemia, a genetically inherited disease in Nigeria. The passage of the bill followed...
Nigeria has been ranked as the fourth-best in the world in terms of COVID-19 response according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The global health agency’s...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has cautioned that COVID-19 may not be the last pandemic that will plague the world. The WHO Country Representative in Nigeria,...
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control has approved two more COVID-19 vaccines for use in Nigeria. They are the Moderna and Sputnik vaccines....
Taliban officials said on Friday the Sunni Muslim insurgent group had taken control of 85% of territory in Afghanistan, and international concern mounted over problems getting...
The dreaded Delta variant of COVID-19 has been detected in Nigeria, according to the national health agency, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). “The Nigeria Centre for...