Health

By Metohuey Michael Adoglo Derived from a Greek word, which means ‘panting’ –Asthma is a disease of the airway in which these airways become hypersensitive and in the process get...

Through the partnership, announced on Tuesday, Cape Town-based Biovac is raising around $150 million to expand the capacity of an existing vaccine manufacturing plant in the South African city to...

The fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly concluded on Wednesday with endorsement of a resolution to forge an international legally binding agreement by 2024 to end plastic pollution....

Six African countries – Egypt, Senegal, Kenya, South Africa, Tunisia and Nigeria – have emerged as the first African recipients of mRNA technology under the global mRNA technology transfer hub...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will hold its next Africa regional conference in Malabo, hosted by the Government of Equatorial Guinea. The regional conference is...

By Metohuey Michael Adoglo The health authorities in Malawi have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after a case was detected in a young child in the capital...

By Metohuey Michael Adoglo Health expert, Dr. Toluwani Binutu, has urged Nigerians to eat less red meat and chicken, noting that they have saturated fats that could cause serious health...

Dr. Ikenna Onwuekwe – A Professor of Neurology, has urged physicians and new mothers to pay good attention to babies during childbirth, noting that poor oxygen supply to the brain...

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has rejected COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to Nigeria because the vaccines will expire in less than six months....

"Although COVID-19 will be with us for the long term, there is light at the end of the tunnel. This year, we can end the disruption and destruction the virus...