current health news|healthy living|healthy diet chart

Health

Scientists who developed malaria, elephantiasis drugs win Nobel prize for medicine

Three scientists from Japan, China and Ireland whose discoveries led to the development of potent new drugs against parasitic diseases, including malaria and elephantiasis,...

admin - October 6, 2015

Health

Why President Buhari should prioritise maternal, child health

The Development Communications (DevComs) Network / NOTAGAIN Campaign team insists that high maternal and child mortality rate, ineffective implementation of health policies, security threats...

admin - October 4, 2015

Health

ERA/FoEN, 40 others back Kenya over BAT litigation

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) and about 40 other organisations from across Africa and around the world have submitted a...

admin - September 28, 2015

Health

Bangladesh may ban mercury dental amalgam

Bangladesh Dental Society (BDS) and Environment and Social Development Organisation (ESDO) have urged the government to create policies in order to ban mercury dental...

admin - September 16, 2015

Health

‘Nigeria must not miss 2017 Polio-free certification’

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that he will not tolerate any gap that might prevent Nigeria being certified polio-free by World Health Organisation (WHO) by...

Michael Simire - September 1, 2015

Health

Dikko Abdullahi bows out, unveils Customs’ Karu hospital

Dikko Abdullahi, comptroller general, bows out of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in style as he performed his last official function by inaugurating a...

Michael Simire - August 18, 2015

Health

‘Controlled diabetes, hypertension can curb renal failure’

A specialist in internal medicine, Dr. Yiliji Kumtap, has said renal diseases and failures, prominent in hypertensive and diabetic patients, can be curtailed if...

Michael Simire - August 18, 2015

Health

Activist intensifies battle to make dentistry safe

Mercury is a toxin; a poison, yet it's commonly used in dentistry. Charlie Brown, president of the Consumers for Dental Choice and the World...

Michael Simire - August 17, 2015

1...257258259...267 Page 258 of 267