The House of Representatives Committee on Health has disclosed that at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, five wards with around 150 beds have been shuttered...
Not less than 433 out of the 836 foreign-trained medical graduates who sat the qualifying examination organised by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria failed....
Every October is Breast Cancer Awareness and Research Month, a time when the world comes together to raise awareness and support the fight against this devastating...
Orders Full Enforcement of Gunshot Victims Act 2017 In response to the ongoing concern over the tragic loss of lives due to the neglect of gunshot...
Lagos State Government, Southwest Nigeria has sealed a private hospital at Ago-Okota in the Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area for taking unscreened and unlabeled blood and administering...
Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, have created a bioreactor device that mimics some of the fundamental functions of a kidney by using human...
A new study has suggested that doctors have been measuring blood pressure wrongly and are likely to miss certain health complications. The latest research was presented...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said it is keeping an eye on the new EG.5 and BA.2.86 subvariants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus’s Omicron...
Tristate healthcare systems, a private hospital in Lagos, has reportedly performed Nigeria’s first minimally invasive heart surgery. A minimally invasive heart surgery involves making small cuts,...
The Lagos state government says six animals in the state have been confirmed to have anthrax disease. Anthrax is a spore-forming bacterial infection caused by Bacillus anthracis. Ruminants such as cows, sheep, and goats are commonly affected. It is a zoonotic illness that spreads from infected animals to people. Humans can become infected if they come into touch with contaminated animal products or handle or participate in the slaughter of a sick animal. In a statement on Sunday,...