In an open letter, former heads of state as well as leaders from civil society and business launch a petition call for more solidarity and a more coordinated approach to deal with the Ebola outbreak in West Afric...
Roles of humanitarian services in tackling healthcare inequality in developing countries
The World Humanitarian Day was recently held to celebrate men and women who on a regular basis expose themselves to various forms of danger in the course of assisting people who are under-served in terms of healthcare and social needs....
Doctors' sack is in Nigeria's best interest - government
The Nigerian government has revealed that its decision to suspend the Residency Training Programme in the health sector
was done in the overall interest of all Nigerians....
Nigerian doctors stage nationwide protests over sack
Nigerian doctors in various parts of the country on Monday staged a peaceful protest demanding the reversal of the president's decision to sack the nation's 16,000 resident doctors...
Protesters free 29 Ebola patients in Liberia
Armed men attacked an Ebola isolation ward in the Liberian capital Monrovia overnight, prompting 29 patients to flee the facility, witnesses said Sunday...
Lawyers in Nigeria urged to postpone national conference over Ebola
Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, has advised the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to shelve its planned national conference slated for next week in the wake of the Ebola outbreak...
Memories of error improve our learning speed, research reveals
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, MD, think they have discovered why people learn an identical task faster on subsequent attempts. Publishing their findings in Science Express, the team says our memories of error are the key to faster learning...
President Jonathan Commissions N1 Billion Trauma Centre in Abuja
Presiden Goodluck Jonathan has commissioned a trauma centre considered to be world-class and conform to international standards and best practices. The centre was constructed and equipped at a cost of over nine hundred million naira.
Also, in an effort to arrest the high incidences of medical tourism,...
Nurses chase suspected Ebola patient out of hospital in Lagos
There was commotion on Monday when a suspected Ebola Virus Disease patient showed up at the General Hospital in Oke-Odo, Agege, Lagos State...
Nigerian government sacks resident doctors
Nigerian government yesterday (Thursday) announced indefinite suspension of residency training programme for doctors in the country...
Ebola has a great potential of driving appropriate responses - Lawal
HealthNewsNG.com spoke to Lawal Kola Bakare,
Convener of Ebola Alert, on the prevention and control strategies for the
disease in Nigeria. He also spoke on at local and regional levels to curb the spread of the disease...
2 million people to access eye healthcare services at new clinic in Mozambique
A few days ago the Central Hospital in Beira, Mozambique, saw the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Invicta Eye Clinic, which will serve as eye-care hub for two million people...
Healthcare Innovation Award winners influencing approaches to healthcare for children and newborns - GSK
While renewing call for applications, GSK and Save the Children have announced previous winners of the Health Innovation Awards are attracting
interest and support from national governments to help improve survival
rates of newborns and children under five in developing countries....
Ebola in Rwanda, medical student from Germany being tested
Rwanda's health ministry has announced a German student has been isolated and is being tested for Ebola virus disease. If the test is positive, the student would be the nation's first confirmed case of Ebola that is fast spreading across Africa....
Ebola vaccine should be ready for public use by next year - WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised hopes concerning the management of Ebola virus. It said an Ebola vaccine should be ready for public use by 2015....
Ebola: Nigeria recruiting volunteers, offers life insurance-included compensation packages
As part of efforts aimed at battling the spread of Ebola virus disease in Nigeria, the Nigerian government in partnership with the government of Lagos state are recruiting volunteers....
Crisis in NMA, president resigns
The president of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Kayode Obembe, has tendered his resignation from the position following internal discord within the association over the decision to suspend the association's one month old strike...
Ebola: Nigeria's NMA striking doctors call off strike
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has suspended its nationwide industrial action as a result of the ongoing battle to tackle Ebola virus disease in Nigeria and to prevent an outbreak...
Ebola: Why we must embrace integrative medicine in Nigeria
The health community has once more been thrown into
confusion by another deadly, traumatizing outbreak, known popularly as the “Ebola Outbreak”. ...
Experimental Ebola drug to become more widely available
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it would
convene a meeting of medical ethics experts next week to consider the
implications of making experimental Ebola drugs more widely available....
Nigeria's illegal borders raise concerns over Ebola spread
There are fresh fears that porous
Nigerian land borders may thwart the Federal Government’s efforts to
check the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in the country....
REPORT: Do medical missions really help?
Medical missions have grown in relevance in Nigeria over the past 20
years. This is largely as a consequence of the failure of the health
system to serve the poor. In the conventional sense, medical missions
usually involve a group of physicians and other health workers
travelling to a foreign...
Mobile platform helps users make informed health decisions
Mobile
phone is changing how people access health information in Nigeria. Mobile savvy
entrepreneurs and organizations are developing different applications and
services to improve the digital lifestyle of Nigerians while impacting their
health....
Initiative launched to improve access to HIV diagnostics
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) have joined with global partners to launch the Diagnostics Access Initiative which calls for improving laboratory capacity to ensure that all people living with HIV can be linked to effective,...
Blood Test for Suicide May Come From Stress Gene Defect
A gene tied to negative thoughts and impulses may lead to a blood test predicting suicide risk, according to researchers who said such a tool could help prevent a leading cause of death...
Handshakes spread more germs than fist bumps, new study reveals
A new study conducted in UK said fist bumps spread far fewer germs than the traditional handshake, and even the high fiv...
Nigeria records another suspected case of Ebola virus infection
Barely seven days after Mr. Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian, died in a private hospital in Lagos, one of the personnel, who helped him out of the aircraft on his arrival in Lagos, has shown signs of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)...
ILO and WHO partner to improve work in the health sector
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have jointly developed the "HealthWise work improvement in health services" programme that combines action and learning...
India, Nigeria partner to reduce medical tourism
India’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ghanashyam Rangaiah, on
Tuesday, said his tenure would mostly be directed at promoting education
and health cooperation with Nigeria...
Ebola not in Nigeria, govt shuts down hospital
None of the 20 persons so far screened out of a total of 59 that had
contact with the late Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer, who died of Ebola virus disease on Friday has tested positive, thus giving Nigeria a clean bill regarding the disease...
Viral hepatitis is a major global health issue - CDC
Viral hepatitis is a major global health issue affecting nearly 400
million people worldwide. In observance of World Hepatitis Day, July 28,
learn more about three common types of viral hepatitis: Hepatitis A,
Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C...
Ebola in Nigeria: Good hand washing practices can protect you
As Nigeria recently investigated and confirmed a first case of Ebola in the city of Lagos state, there have been various action plans aimed at preventing further spread and containment of the deadly virus
This included screening all the passengers aboard the airplane that also transported the victim....
Tension rises in Nigeria as first Ebola victim dies
Patrick Sawyer, a WASH consultant at the Ministry of Finance, who had
been quarantined since arriving Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday, July 20, 2014
with symptoms of the Ebola virus, has been reported dead...
Lagos state government releases emergency response numbers for Ebola disease
Following its confirmation of the first possible case of Ebola disease in Nigeria, Lagos state government has released numbers that members of the public can call to report suspected cases of the disease...
Nigerians hurriedly seeking information on Ebola virus
Since news broke yesterday that an infection suspected to be Ebola was reported on Thursday in Lagos, Nigerians, especially those that are active online are hurriedly seeking information on the disease, its spread, management and how to prevent the disease...
7 Exercises That Will Transform Your Body
Looking for some effective ways to transform your body? There are a few
great exercises that will help you to reach your fitness goal. These
exercises are easy but effective in strengthening your body along with
burning unwanted calories. However, sticking to these exercises is...
Indian boy with 260 teeth had successful surgery to remove 232
In a ground breaking surgery, doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from a young boy's mouth.
According to time.com website, "A boy in India endured a six-hour operation Monday to remove 232
teeth that grew as a result of a rare medical condition. Now, Ashik
Gavai, 17, has 28 teeth left—four...
Possible First case of Ebola under investigation in Nigeria
Investigations are currently underway to identify a possible first case of the deadly Ebola virus in Lagos Nigeri...
HPV test outperforms Pap for predicting cervical cancer
A new study involving data on more than 1 million women finds the HPV test outperforming the standard Pap test in assessing cervical cancer risk...
Cross River to Partner NHIS on Healthcare Delivery
Cross River State Government has expressed its commitment to partner any reputable organization that would help in its modest effort of actualizing first-class healthcare delivery services to its citizens...
Cholera kills six in Kano State - Commissioner
A cholera outbreak in Kano State has killed six people and infected scores, the state health commissioner said Sunday, although the toll was placed at a higher figure by a local charity...
MTN, others partner NHIS on health insurance
Nigeria's major telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria has partnered Salt & Einstein MTS and the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to drive the localization of insurance in the country through the mobile platfor...
Tobacco Bill Scales Second Reading in House of Representative
The Nigerian Federal House of Representatives yesterday passed into second reading a bill seeking to reduce the effect of tobacco smoking in Nigeria.
While going through the processes, the House engaged manufacturers in the tobacco industry, civil society groups, nongovernmental organisations,...
GSK and Save the Children offer $1 million award for healthcare innovations in developing countries that reduce child deaths
GSK and Save the Children has announced the launch of their second annual $1 million Healthcare Innovation Award at the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health meeting in South Africa. The award was established to identify and reward innovations in healthcare that have proven successful...
WHO, ITU launch mDiabetes initiative in Senegal
The World
Health Organization (WHO) and the International Telecommunications
Union (ITU) as part of the "Be Healthy, Be Mobile" initiative, as launched mDiabetes program in Senegal...
Novartis launches new high quality antimalarial formulation of Coartem for Africa
Novartis has announced today the launch of a new high quality antimalarial formulation of Coartem® 80/480 (artemether/lumefantrine 80 mg/480 mg), for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in adults and older children who weigh above 35kg.
The drug has been registered by the Pharmacy and...
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