Health

    …Boost Economic Productivity   By Dr. Laz Ude Eze, MBBS, MPH Nigeria is combating three concurrent health epidemics: communicable diseases (including COVID-19 and cholera), non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and road traffic injuries.   The World...

By John Ikani The World Health Organization (WHO) says 10 African countries account for 46% of Omicron cases reported globally. According to the global health body, majority of countries are within southern Africa. It said hospitalisation...

By Emmanuel Nduka The Nigerian Government announced on Thursday that it would start administering COVID-19 booster dose today Friday, December 10. Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) Dr. Faisal Shuaib, said this during...

By Emmanuel Nduka Bayelsa State Government has confirmed five deaths in a fresh outbreak of cholera in Ofoni, a shoreline settlement in Sagbama Local Government Area of the state. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Pabara...

By John Ikani New Zealand will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to eventually phase out smoking. Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco...

By John Ikani  New cases in the U.S. climbed from an average of nearly 95,000 a day on Nov. 22 to almost 119,000 a day this week, just as the total number of Americans fully vaccinated...