Dr. Donald Ofili, the Acting Registrar of the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN), has urged all medical laboratories to focus on quality by using the council’s accreditation service.
Browsing: Health & Healthy Living
In Nigeria today, a silent crisis is growing. More than 35% of adults with high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, are not receiving treatment. Doctors say the main reasons are poverty and the rising cost of medication.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has finished a two-day planning meeting to shape its work plan for 2025.
The Kano State government has set a target to vaccinate 3.9 million children under the age of five during the June 2025 Outbreak Response (OBR) campaign.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has raised concern over the detection of a variant of the polio virus in four local governments in Kano State.
From January to June 1, 2025, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) confirmed 747 cases of Lassa fever out of 5,394 people who were suspected to have the disease
Despite remarkable efforts and high-level community involvement in polio eradication, Sokoto state still accounts for 20% of Nigeria’s confirmed variant…
The University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) has successfully conducted its second living-donor kidney transplant, marking a significant milestone 15 years after the hospital’s first such procedure.
A healthcare practitioner, Ms. Adedoyin Amurawaiye, has urged adolescent girls to maintain optimal hygiene during menstruation in order to prevent infections.
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has inaugurated a committee on the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMCT) of HIV in Enugu State.