By Justina Auta The Public Health Department of the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) has commenced its annual house-to-house treatment…
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By Justina Auta The Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN), has embarked on free cancer awareness and cervical cancer screening…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has not received any official report of serious adverse effects from the 215,277,…
The World Health Organisation, WHO, has said that an estimated 1.4 million fewer people received care for tuberculosis (TB) in…
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine performed better than expected in a major late-stage trial potentially paving the way for its emergency authorisation…
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 said it received 300,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines from MTN Nigeria. Speaking…
Vera Songwe, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), says between 49 million and 161 million…
A newborn in Japan is believed to have contracted COVID-19 from the mother in what may be the first case…
New technology that can rapidly detect whether a positive COVID-19 test sample contains a known variant was being trialled by…
A consultant Haematologist, Dr Uche Nwokwu, says over 80 per cent of childhood cancers are curable because children respond faster…