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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut 16 herbal medicine facilities and seized products over illegal operations in Onitsha, Anambra. The seizure was effected during a raid of illegal products…

People living with diabetes must be involved in the management of their condition to be able to achieve good control of their blood sugar and prevent the numerous complications associated with disease. This is the submission of Mrs…

Sandoz, a Novartis division and the global leader in biosimilars, announced today that the European Commission (EC) has approved a type II variation for the addition of a subcutaneous (s.c.) route of administration in its drug Binocrit…

… NMA says over 2m people are diabetic in the country ABUJA: Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole yesterday decried the growing rate of diabetes in the country, saying the disease was becoming an epidemic. He particularly expressed fear…

As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark the World Heath Day yesterday, a consultant endocrinologist, a specialist physician who diagnoses and treats diseases related to the glands, Dr. Afoke Isiavwe, has advocated the need for…

ABUJA:President Muhammadu Buhari earlier today pleaded with Nigerian resident doctors to shelve their plan to embark on a strike from April 25 and give his government a chance to address their grievances. The president met with the…

... says 422 million adults now live with it. The World Health Organisation (WHO) today released the first WHO Global Report on Diabetes showing that the number of people living with diabetes has almost quadrupled since 1980 to 422 million…

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole said yesterday at the NHO Media Roundtable on Diabetes that the disease is gradually becoming an epidemic worldwide and Nigeria remains one of the countries with a large number of people living…

Multinational pharmaceutical company Roche Diagnostics in collaboration with Rainbow Specialist Medical Centre earlier today kicked off activities marking the 2016 World Health Day (WHD) in Nigeria with a media roundtable organised by…

Darkness in A& E The current bleak power situation in the country was at its best at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital when the Health Minister paid a scheduled visit to the hospital yesterday. The Minister met the Accident and…