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World leaders endorse plan to tackle cancer, diabetes

Global leaders have pledged to take bold action to reduce suffering from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which include the world’s leading killers – heart and...

Despite under-five mortality decrease, 7,000 newborns die daily – Report

Every day in 2016, 15,000 children died before their fifth birthday, 46% of them – or 7,000 babies – died in the first 28...

Monkey Pox cases increase to 74 in 11 states

The Monkey Pox virus outbreak has spread to 11 states with 74 suspected cases recorded, Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said. Adewole made...

Lagos to inaugurate Community Vector Control Point

An environmentalist, Mr Oluwasegun Benson, on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 said that Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State would officially inaugurate the Community Vector...

World Polio Day: Nigeria, others get $49.5m Rotary lifeline to eradicate polio

With just 11 confirmed polio cases so far in 2017, the world is said to be on the brink of eradicating polio, a vaccine-preventable...

Nigeria immunises 874,000 people against yellow fever

The Government of Nigeria has launched a campaign to immunise some 873,837 people against yellow fever in the states of Kwara and Kogi. The 10-day...

Bubonic plague kills 50 in Madagascar

At the airport, in the banks, and elsewhere in public, people are wearing protective masks. Gatherings are forbidden and schools remain closed. The president is...

World Obesity Day: Child, teen obesity soars tenfold – Report

The number of obese children and adolescents (aged five to 19 years) worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades. If current trends...

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Health reform aimed at saving lives, reducing pains – Pate

The Minister of Health, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, says the ongoing health reform in Nigeria is designed to save...
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10m people could die annually due to antibiotic resistance by 2050 – WAP

World Animal Protection (WAP), an international organisation, says no fewer than 10 million people could die globally each year...

Extreme heat linked to over 1,300 deaths in Portugal in 20 days

The months of July and August 2025 in Portugal were marked by several warnings of high temperatures that coincided...

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Health reform aimed at saving lives, reducing pains – Pate

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