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Novo Nordisk has joined UNICEF in a new three-year collaborative initiative to end childhood obesity. The partners plan to do global research to share lessons and effective strategies to fight the disease, but they're also initiating…

Worldwide more than 140,000 people died from measles in 2018, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC). These deaths occurred as measles…

Physio Centers of Africa (PCA), a Lagos headquartered physiotherapy, rehab and home care business, has been rated as the “Private Physiotherapy Provider of the Year” by the Lagos Physiotherapists (LP). The award which was announced at…

#TheTeaOnHIV targets one million young Africans As the 31st World AIDS Day approaches on 1 December, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office in Africa yesterday (November 29),  launched a social media campaign, #TheTeaOnHIV,…

NAFDAC, pharmaceutical groups applaud Nigeria's  National Agency for Food & Drug Administration & Control (NAFDAC) has expressed strong support for the efforts by Sanofi, a multinational healthcare company, to…

ABUJA - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), working in conjunction with the European Union and the Nigeria Police Force  on Friday, November 15, launched a new Handbook on Counter-Terrorism Investigations developed…

Commission diabetes, hypertension clinic Screen thousands of community members In what could be the biggest commemoration of the World Diabetes Day event in Nigeria, thousands of people in Udo kingdom, Ovia West Local…

Inter-ministerial Technical Secretariat, UN partners, health ministry condemn violence New vaccines arrive In another round of violence since the world's second-worst Ebola epidemic hit DR Congo  epidemic, a community…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and its nine neighbouring countries have endorsed a joint framework to strengthen cross-border collaboration on preparedness and response to Ebola virus and other disease outbreaks.…

Organises scientific conference in 6 centres across Nigeria Launches new therapy for VTE management In an unprecedented move to combat the growing incidence of death due to venous thromboembolism (VTE) in Nigeria,…