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The Federal Ministry of Health has recalled 2.4 million bottles of cough syrup containing codeine after a recent audit of the substance ...

The police have uncovered an illegal blood bank allegedly operated by a 45-year-old man, Paul Achegbulu, in Bariga, Lagos Mainland.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has distanced itself from news making the rounds that the organisation called for ...

The United Nations has said it has approved the use of Indian hemp for medical purposes, urging Nigeria to relax laws restricting usa...

The Executive Secretary, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BSPHCDA), Adamu Gamawa, has confirmed the death of two out o...

Kogi State has been thrown into mourning following the death of a medical doctor Idowu Ahmed Victor diagnosed of Lassa Fever in Irua, ...

Kogi State has recorded a fresh outbreak of Lassa fever as an unnamed medical doctor working with the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoj...

A team of researchers at Stanford University in the US has developed a computer program that can predict when a hospital patient will di...

Research carried out in part by an Artificially-Intelligent (AI)‘robot scientist’ has found that a common ingredient of toothpaste could...

Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has warned against indiscriminate or misuse of Paracetamol, saying such practice damages the live...

The Executive Director of Nasarawa State Aids Control Agency (NASACA), Zakari Umar, said 54 babies delivered between January and Septemb...

Two hundred and fifty victims of snake bite have died in the last three weeks in Plateau and Gombe states, following an acute scarcity o...

Second republic Vice-President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, has collapsed and is currently at the Intensive Care Unit of Memfys Hospital for Neuro...

The Kiru Local Government Council of Kano State says about 11 children have died of whooping cough at Kankwana village. This is contain...

One of the victims of the viral disease, monkeypox, at the quarantine centre in Bayelsa State has committed suicide, the state government...

The Lagos State Government confirmed  that it has recorded two suspected cases and appealed to residents to remain calm and vigilant. ...

Parents on Monday withdrew their children from public primary schools in Damaturu, forcing the schools to shut down over rumour of an un...

Residents of Yenagoa, Bayelsa capital, are avoiding handshakes and bodily contact in public places following the outbreak of monkeypox vi...

The number of persons that have been killed by a fresh cholera outbreak in Borno State has risen to 44. Commissioner for Health in the st...