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UNICEF decries increasing use of children as "human bombs" by Boko Haram ABUJA - The Federal Government said it had spent over N4 billion 0n the  humanitarian crisis in the terror-ravaged Northeast. The Minister of Health Prof.…

Relief came the way of some communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region with the commissioning of water and sanitation projects by the European Union (EU) and the  United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration  with the state …

Hosts  first Healthcare for Women and Children Conference With a focus on heartburn and acid reflux in pregnancy and fever in children, Zambia’s first Healthcare for Women and Children Conference 2017, hosted by Reckitt Benckiser…

Pregnant women have been urged to cultivate the habit of reporting for antenatal care as soon as they miss their monthly period for proper checks for ailments such as malaria-related life-threatening disease. Malaria, Nigeria’s most…

Cross River receives EngenderHealth team OGOJA - The Federal government has directed all teaching hospitals and Federal Medical Centres in the country to wave payment of surgery and laboratory fees for all fistula patients who…

It was difficult to believe that children with such acutely-malnourished looks and in such huge number could be seen in just two local government areas of  Kaduna state.  They looked so feeble, emaciated and sickly that one would doubt…

New EU 'successor project' takes off ABUJA - The United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)  formally ended its five-year 'Support to Justice Sector in Nigeria' project today  amid high commendations and accolades by…

Provost stresses need for ethical practice and team work The first batch of 2016 Medical & Dental graduands of College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Idi-Araba have been charged to go out and contribute their quota in the…

LUTH confirms 3 cases on admission, says they are responding to treatment The Chief Medical Director of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Prof. Chris Bode, today confirmed that three out of the 100 people  on surveillance,…

Two dead, two on admission Edo state also reports two cases The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) today confirmed the death of two patients from Lassa fever. Two others, one of them a doctor who took part in the…